Project Ice Land Lapland presents new installation works by Virginia Hilyard and Fiona Kemp. In exploring the inherent physical properties of Articulate project space, Hilyard and Kemp employ live sound, field recordings and photography to render landscape through sound and memory.

Hilyard's Ice Sound, a sculptural system using block ice, resonant steel drums and specialist microphones, investigates the physical, sonic and poetic qualities of icemelt and notions of disappearance and loss. Ice Sound has come out of a recent research trip to the western glacial region of Iceland where she joined sound recordist Chris Watson and sound artist and composer Jez riley French on a wildlife field recording expedition.

Lapland continues Kemp's investigation into objects, images and repetitive practices that resonate memory. Lapland draws on a personal archive of public pool photographs - pools that she has swum laps in over the past two decades. This site specific work takes advantage of the length of Articulate project space by mimicking the lane marking found at the bottom of a 25 metre lap lane pool.

-Articulate Project Space

Image: for Ice Sound courtesy of Fergus Kelly © 2013.