Explore and interact with this site-specific installation and performance that explores how minute elements of the inner ear work through movement. In this creative interpretation we’ll see how movements of air allow us to hear sound.

 

Drawing from weaving, one of the industries that Coventry is most famous for, dance artists interpret this process in live performances with floating warps of silk threads. 

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Together, the Anglican Mortuary Chapel and Charterhouse, founded by Carthusian monks, raise contextual questions around fluctuating embodied receptions of listening and touch over time. Relations to the departed as they had been (in part) negotiated between local pagan rites and universal Christian rites prompt site resonant questions on how current understandings of the somatic body relate to the fluctuating understandings of the departing souls that were and continue to be honoured in chapels.

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This film shares the events that took place over the two days and offers a small insight into the experience of those involved, spectators and creators.