WhaleSong
A confluence of arts practice.
Contemplative Places, an ongoing common endeavour; a series of scenographic installations, ritual spaces where participants are invited to engage with collective myth-making.
These creative worlds are abstract transmissions of human and non-human experience, theatrical environments that invite participants to spectate and/or collaborate in; communal and individual contemplation, happenings, storytelling, demonstration, performance and symposium, mapping interconnecting spheres of human experience and the mechanisms and intra-actions of natureculture.
LiveDigitalDesign is a collection of artist developers, engaged in long-term arts research, this changing informal group has participated in several residencies and produced a series of artworks together, since 2010.
Live-Digital-Design is a descriptive label for the scenographic process of production, each element of the label is an important facet of the artistic process, each member adds to the conflux of ideas and media used in creating the artworks. Material sculptures produced from reclaimed materials, projected light, text and moving image, fragmented audio, song, spoken word, and radio noise, all elements that create unique identities of the constructed environments.
Dugnad, a Norwegian word with no direct English translation, meaning work undertaken by a community for the common good.
During a 2016 residency at the Neptun Art/Science Lab in Melbu, Norway, LiveDigitalDesign learnt about and then adopted the practice of dugnad, a common endeavour in collaborative learning, making artworks relevant to the place and people where the projects are conducted.
WhaleSong is the what (Contemplative Places), who (LiveDigitalDesign) and how (Dugnad) of the arts practice.
Lighthouse
Scenographic installation by LiveDigitalDesign at the Old Bookbinders, Oxford 2010.
A site-specific collaborative project created in a former book binding factory in East Oxford.
Chimney
Scenographic installation by LiveDigitalDesign at The Old Boot Factory, St Mary's Road, Oxford.
March 2012.
This concrete structure functions as a monolith, marking a space, with the movement of light within depicting the passage of time. Its draws its reference from monolithic structures that stand to mark ritual or symbols from civilization, like a standing stone, lighthouse, or chimney.
Leviathan’s Electrolarynx
Scenographic installation by LiveDigitalDesign for Audiograph Festival, Oxford 2015.
A site-specific collaborative project created in a former post office walk-in safe, at Oxford’s Story Museum.
kaleidoscopic thoughts
Series of outdoor guerrilla projections, in Copenhagen and Oslo, 2016. The content was a series of thirty plus illustrations created for purpose. The sites for the projection were incidental and spontaneous, resulting in the artwork only being experienced through serendipity.
Leviathan
Scenographic installation by LiveDigitalDesign for Sommer-Melbu Festival, Norway 2017.
A site-specific collaborative project created in a former fish oil factory tank, on the edge of the Arctic Circle.
Leviathan’s Temple
Scenographic installation, by LiveDigitalDesign at We The Curious, Bristol, 2019.
Commissioned artwork on a theme of changing worlds with fragmented stories of post-industrial Bristol.
Transmission
An audioscape by LiveDigitalDesign, 2019.
Created by fragments of gathered audio. With thanks to Owen Ridley, Charlie Henry, David Meckin, Morgan Szymanski, Voices Unlimited, and the known voices.
Whalesong is transmitted abstract mythologies.