Light Night 2024: Standing Ground

St Mary's Church, Nottingham

Date -
Time -
Venue St Mary's Church

Standing Ground, part of Nottingham Light Night 2024, is a stunning immersive light and sound experience, exploring our relationship with the natural world.

People standing in a dark church with lighting showing rainbow colours flooding up to the ceiling.

Opening times: Friday 2 February 6 – 9pm and Saturday 3 February 5.30– 9pm.

 Venue address: St. Mary’s Church, High Pavement, Nottingham NG1 1HN

Free entry. 

Warning: Contains flashing images and use of haze

As we enter a period of accelerated climate uncertainty, the work seeks to find resolution in our connection with nature, and a pathway to hope and optimism. 

Created following a residency with the Harley Foundation, artists Urban Projections and CJ Mirra worked with Ecologist Simon Pickles and Zine artist Harry Hempsall in a collaboration with clients from Aebal care and support service, and Young People from Proto-Type Collective on the historic Welbeck Estate, North Nottinghamshire.   

Through exploration and play, field recordings were created which have been manipulated to create a soundscape expressing sounds of the forest; while AI has been used to create evolving image sequences following the study of ancient veteran trees and archival photographs. 

The online Zine below brings together thoughts and experiences captured during the making process. 

Read the accompanying Zine

Credits

Artists - Urban Projections & CJ Mirra 

Ecologist - Simon Pickles 

Zine Artist - Harry Hempsall 

Spoken Word: Seth Hughes - @urfromere 

Composer Assistant and Additional Composition- Jan Musil

Produced by Jon Bevan.

Co-Creation: Aebal - Morgan Stocks, Tony Dickinson, Robert Rusk, Jack Watson, Dan Hill.  Support: Jason Bradley and Joseph Lyons 

Proto-Type - Eseose Okotako, Casey Francis, Lina Vourlou, Jenson Brown, Leo Dawson, Poppy Hewett, Harry Hempsall.  Support: Brendon Gravell 

Partners:  Harley Foundation, North & East Yorkshire Ecological Data Centre 

Technical Partners - Sterling Event Group 

With thanks to: The Welbeck Estate, St Mary’s Church 

Standing Ground is the third part of a triptych of work, exploring our relationship to the natural world through the lens of a changing climate.  The two previous works have included:  

States of Matter (2022) - a delve into our planets fragile relationship with water, it’s natural cycles and its relationship to the climate crisis. 

Re-Move (2023) - Exploring the human consequences of climate change. 

Arts Council England Logo. Black text on white background.
Harley_Logo Artwork.jpg
Aebal logo

< Back to all events

No booking necessary

Simply turn up and take part. We look forward to seeing you!