A sound installation for moving speakers, with musicians and audiences who come and go.

Melbourne Recital Centre July 2024

Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey concept
Jen Hector lighting & room design
Rob Larsen technical design
Pekka Mäkinen, x risk project key image
Goldens Sands came and went during installation hours
Photography Sarah Pilbeam
Videography Sam Mcgilp

Support
The artists are very grateful for the support for this project from the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria and the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.

Within the space of sanctuary, and living with the cognitive dissonance of how the world is, can we imagine a discipline of respite and hope in place of despair? As Mahmoud Darwish writes, A poem in a difficult time is beautiful flowers in a cemetery.

This work is designed for the complete space with the audience able to sit against the walls, or move around, or recline in small, comfortable clusters. They are welcome to stay as long as they want, or come and go. In a similar way, the live musicians contribute to the texture intermittently and continually, as they come and go in the physical and aural space.

“I’ve learned that the feeling that nothing will change is just mental weather, and that the record is all in favour of change… I try to distinguish between despair as a feeling and a forecast.” Rebecca Solnit, On Hope, despair and climate action.

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