Songs of Salt, was a simple, immersive installation, situated in a beach hut as part of the Whitstable Biennale Satellite programme in July 2010. The piece was inspired by sea shanty’s, songs performed by men who lived and worked on the sea. It was collectively produced and conceived by Jessica Akerman, Ellie Curtis, Christopher Rainbow and Juliet Sugg.
Comprised within a blacked out beach hut, participants could discover a medative
experience conveying the juxtaposition of both the isolation and communal experience of life at sea.
The installation was topped off with a live sunset performance by the Whitstable based Sea Shanty and Folk group Dead Horse Morris and the Ship Wright Shanty Crew on the beach front on the last Saturday of the event. Drawing a large the successful part of the work was later included in Whitechapel Gallery’s Scrivener’s Cove event this August.
For more details please follow the link achieved in the original post. You can listen to some of the material on the Satellite post www.thewhitstablesatellite.com
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