this voice; this life; this procession

this voice; this life; this procession is a video installation with multi-channel electroacoustic soundscape. The artwork brings together highly detailed LiDAR scans with performances by the artists ‘captured’ using Kinect sensors on location at the site of Virginia Woolf’s writing room, Rodmell, UK.

Woolf’s creative approach and writing strategies – atemporality, defamiliarization, tunnelling – frame the performative methodology to record the artists’ presence in her writing room. Brass Art used site-based methods and black box testing to investigate the potential of light-based capture to work affectively to ‘record’ and ‘translate’ resonant sites. To bring the two data types together into one coherent, exhibitable form required rigorous testing with expert software developers and AV technicians. The resulting symbiosis of 3D and 4D data-clouds offers a cosmology of entangled thoughts, atomised organic forms, bodies and intimate architectures revealing “the gradual dissolution of everything.”

This research is situated within two related contexts – immersive installation using extended light practices, and contemporary art practice in heritage settings. This voice… extends the idea of writing spaces as projection of the occupants’ psychic apparatus and ‘moving through’ the digital data layers presents multiple, fragmented versions of reality and time. Through non-invasive approaches, this work brings into relation the artists’ moving bodies in space, and an engagement with writing methods, contributing to an understanding of site, thresholds and temporalities.

Commissioned by Clarissa Corfe for solo exhibition Brass Art: Rock, quiver and bend at HOME, Manchester, this voice… is contextualised in a peer reviewed chapter for The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Creative Practice, research insights were shared at SAR 2021, SOUND|IMAGE, Greenwich 2024, xCoAx, V&A Dundee, 2025, and Imagining Interiors ECA 2025.