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Re-sounding Falkland

A multi-media art project by Wilson on the Falkland Estate in Fife, Scotland, between 2008 and 2010. The Re-sounding Falkland project was supported by Creative Scotland, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Falkland Centre for Stewardship and the University of East London.

Context

This multidisciplinary work was made in collaboration with David Chapman (Senior Lecturer, Media Production, University of East London). It reflected a shared interest in sound and was built on the artists’ differing expertise. Wilson’s background is in Fine Art with a particular interest in relational, participatory and site-based practice. Chapman has a background in broadcast documentary, film studies and music.

Process and Insight

The 3 phases of the project began with Arcadia (April 2008), an 8-channel audio piece produced for Falkland Palace’s Falkland Audio walk (July 2009), a pre-recorded MP3 player-based walk around the grounds of the House of Falkland, and then Re-sounding Falkland (2010), a series of sited audio and video installations. These led to the publication of The Caress of the Audio: Re-sounding Falkland, in Social Semiotics journal Vol.21, no.4 (September 2011), in which Wilson asked what the role of touch is in the creation and experience of audio-visual media.

This project explored issues in the use of media technologies to investigate and re-interpret historical actions, processes, the senses and memory.

Sharing

A catalogue Resounding Falkland - which included commissioned texts by the artists, Christopher Woodward, Eric Laurier, Damian Murphy and David Jones, and an introduction by Ninian Stuart - supplemented the project. This can be viewed at http://www.resoundingfalkland.com/.

Wilson and Chapman’s Falkland: a Sonic Investigation of Place, was published in the Journal of Media Practice, Vol.11, no.3. (December 2010). They then presented a paper of the same name at the 5th International FKL Symposium on Soundscape, Florence (May 2011).