London Bridge tunes into the future Science Gallery London
As the countdown to the opening of Science Gallery London on the Guy’s Campus begins the team is giving Londoners a taste of what to expect in 2016.
FREQUENCIES: Tune into Life will see artists work with the local community to explore the rhythms of our lives – from the movement of cells in our blood stream to fertilisation and birth – and use these cycles to create unique sounds, installations and performance pieces staged across King’s and beyond.
Designed to get you thinking about how the body works, each piece has been created through collaborations with local young people, King’s students and researchers, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital staff and patients, and traders from Borough Market. Collaborators include:
Kasia Molga, media artist who is working with artist and composer Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner, and Dr Esme Purdie, Environmental Research Associate at King’s to look at how pollution affects our breathing
Musical collective Sawchestra, who are working with sound engineer Marc Langsman and student midwife Leo Creffield to explore patterns in fertilisation and hospital births
Multimedia performance artist Bishi, strings composer Neil Kaczor and Professor Paul Gringas, Professor of Paediatric Sleep Medicine at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust, who are focusing on sleep patterns
Once finished, the sound pieces will be available online and at various listen ing stations in and around Guy’s Campus from September until November. Two of the collaborations are also being developed into performances at Merge Festival on the Riverside stage. Follow @scigallerylon for the latest updates on Twitter using #Frequencies.
September 9, 2014