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The Living WIll ENvy The Dead

HORROR        SITE-SPECIFIC        AUDIO WALK        LINCOLN

Artwork was live  9-10th May 2019

This collaborative site specific artwork focused on the military history of the city of Lincoln, drawing upon its potential as a nuclear blast zone during the cold war. The project used creative writing and script writing to tell stories to the listeners, taking the audience on a vastly detailed horror style audio walk around the city of Lincoln. Set in the 1960's, as the audience listened to the audio playing through headphones, a range of developed, ghostly characters guided them through a tour of the city centre, describing their surroundings as if the landscape had been destroyed through a nuclear blast, all the while recounting their individual stories of their demises. The characters included a dead girls' suicide suicide story at the sight of the mushroom cloud, as well as a survivor scavenging through the city ruins, a doctor treating blast zone patients and many more.   

Click to listen to sonic artwork for audio exhibition. Script written and produced by Kate Spink.

In collaboration with Dom Mars, Lei Payumo and collaborating voice actors.

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