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Come Home Again: A Choral Sculpture at the Tate Modern Garden commissioned by Cartier and made with guidance from the London Wildlife Trust. Open now 10am till 10pm until 1st October with choral evensong at 7pm every evening except Monday: free and open to all: link in bio
A dome originally meant a home. The work invites us to see, hear, and feel our home, our city as an interconnected web of species and cultures, to learn and remember the names and sing those under threat into continued existence. The work echoes the invitation invoked by the 92-year-old climate activist Joanna Macy: “Now it can dawn on us: we are the world knowing itself. As we relinquish our isolation, we come home again...we come home to our mutual belonging.”
We are losing languages as fast as we are losing species: the diversity of the ethnosphere is endangered in parallel with that of the biosphere. The languages sung within the work by The London Bulgarian Choir, London African Gospel Choir, South African Cultural Gospel Choir, The Sixteen, Tenebrae, Southwark Cathedral Merbecke Choir and The Choir with No Name include Xhosa, Zulu, Latin, and a range of Bulgarian and African dialects.
Link in bio for details of the choral performances including the sources of the texts by John Seed, Joanna Macy, David Abram, Simon Barnes and more that I am reading each evening in the voiceovers between the choirs and bird solos.
The sound design and composition in which choirs sing the latin names of all of the 243 species over 10 days is by Polyphonia - animated video projections are by Luke Halls Studio. The work has been produced by Jo Mackay / Larmaclive, fabricated by StageOne and Diagon, projection by CT, sound by Autograph, lead associate designer from my team is Matteo Mastrandrea, with studio associate designers Will Brown, Ellie Wintour, Ben Lucraft and Gonzalo Padilla. Photography by Daniel Devlin, Hugo Glendenning, Jodi Rabinowitz, Will Brown, and Ptolemy Mann. With special thanks to Chiara Stephenson, Machiko Weston, Emily Roberts and Livvie Walters.
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