Open House Festival

Skyline Soundscape at The Valley Room, AiR

industrial

Unit A29 Hastingwood Trading Estate, N18 3HU

The Valley Room is a research and project space created by AiR. It considers artist-making in the Lea Valley through a gathering of artefacts, films, objects, maps, books. Monthly openings highlight one artwork, with the artist making an intervention or exhibition.

Getting there

Train

Meridian Water, Silver Street

Bus

34

Additional travel info

Bus 34 to Cooks Ferry Roundabout then 10 mins walk. Alternatively, walk or cycle along Lea Navigation or via Banbury Reservoir.

Access

Facilities

Accessibility notes

We are on the first floor with no lift access. It will also be possible to listen to the soundscape from the car park below.

About

Skyline Soundscape

Artist Nick Smith, a Loewe Foundation/Studio Voltaire Awardee will play records, found sounds and spoken word From the Valley Room window. A space where a distant City of London on the horizon is framed by eighties industrial sheds full of making, mending and hinterland activities – a foregrounding of everyday labour in front of an outlining of late capitalism.

Smith is interested in the relationship between the skyline of a city and music that is a common trope of cinema, and how one informing the other can be echo'd in a feedback loop through his durational performance.

This event is part of Enfield Creatives’ Collection.

This co curated Collection has been made possible with support from the Enfield Society and UKSP funding.

Online presence

airstudio.org/places/thevalleyroom

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