02/21/2022
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Sound Art Brighton Festival artist announcement #2: Olivia Louvel (FR/UK)
Doggerland Channels (2022)
*World Premiere*
Olivia Louvel's Doggerland Channels is a generative sound-relief based on the ancient land which once linked Britain to the continent.
The cartographic sound art installation for voice and data projection throws a net over the North Sea, revealing the rivers which used to connect us to the continent – when the Thames flowed into the Rhine. Doggerland Channels is a landscape whose borders are fluid, fluvial, in need of being retraced, and revealed for a translated experience of the site. Britain was last connected to Europe through the North Sea about 8000 years ago, and we can expect it to be reconnected during future glacial periods. By responding to the present, and the history of the site, the work questions our connection to the continent, and situates ourselves – as islanders – in this transitionary zone: our political exit from the EU.
Olivia Louvel is a French-born British composer and artist whose work draws on voice, computer music and digital narrative. Her work is presented in the form of sound recordings, live performance, sound art installations and video art. She often operates at the intersection of creation and documentation with works such as: ‘The Sculptor Speaks’ (2020), a resounding of a Barbara Hepworth archival tape; ‘The Whole Inside’ (2019), a generative sound mural exploring the violent misogyny of the Incels; ‘Data Regina’ (2017), a multimedia suite based on Mary Queen of Scots’ writings; and ‘Afraid of Women’ (2016), an audio-visual piece raising awareness for Rojava, the autonomous zone in Northern Syria.
Olivia Louvel's Doggerland Channels will be presented at Phoenix Art Space () Wednesday 2nd March – Sunday 6th March 2022
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[1] The Whole Inside – Olivia Louvel (2019) Photo credit: Studio Louvel
[2] 54 Bones (2018) – Olivia Louvel, Duncan Cabral, Jamie Moore & Dominic Rae. Photo credit: James Boardman
[3] Olivia Louvel portrait. Photo credit: Studio Louvel
[4] Sound Art Brighton Festival logo. Design: Gustav Freij
