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36 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
University of East London
On Vanishing Land
On Vanishing Land is an audio-essay based on a walk undertaken by Mark Fisher and Justin Barton along the Suffolk coastline in 2005 from Felixstowe container port to the Anglo-Saxon burial ground at Sutton Hoo. The Otolith Group and the Showroom gallery in London commissioned the piece. It was funded by the Arts Council of England (£9,000), the Performing Rights Society (£3,000) and Bawdsey Radar (£500), and premiered at the Showroom between February-April 2013. On Vanishing Land includes newly composed music, interviews and narrative reflections by the artists. It features interviews with editor and writer Dan Fox, discussing his experiences on board a container ship, Mary Wain, the chair of Bawdsey Radar Group, and archaeologist Angus Wainwright. The piece integrates new compositions by electronic musicians Baron Mordant, Dolly Dolly, Ekoplekz, Farmers of Vega, Gazelle Twin, John Foxx, Pete Wiseman, Raime and Skjølbrot. More information at: http://www.theshowroom.org/programme.html?id=1326
