Tag: Ocean

HavObservatoriet: Professor Lise Autogena’s sea observatory art installation in Vejle, Denmark

HavObservatoriet: Credit to Jean Bidlot and Lise Autogena.

This post is from the Latest News on the Sheffield Hallam University press website – find this online here. Update: Lise Autogena was a guest on BBC Radio York and Lincolnshire to discuss her sea observatory art installation in Denmark. Listen back from 1:11:51. Find another interview online and listen back from 1:44:35. HavObservatoriet (“sea observatory”) is a public space which […]

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Prof Lise Autogena’s Foghorn Requiem holds Guinness World Record

A REQUIEM FOR THE FOGHORN, PERFORMED BY SEVENTY FIVE BRASS PLAYERS, A FOGHORN AND AN ARMADA OF SHIPS A project by Danish artist, Lise Autogena, in collaboration with Joshua Portway and composer Orlando Gough. Ships horns from an armada of vessels off-shore, seventy five brass players on-shore and the Souter Lighthouse Foghorn performed a Foghorn Requiem, an ambitious musical performance to mark the disappearance of the sound of the foghorn from the UK’s coastal landscape. Conducted and controlled from a distance, ships at sea sounded their horns to a musical score, that will took into account landscape and the physical distance of sound. The performance took place by Souter Light House by South Shields, UK with 8-10.000 spectators and more than 50 ships off-shore.

Foghorn Requiem, a landscape-interactive musical composition by artists Lise Autogena and Joshua Portway and composer Orlando Gough, has been selected for the Guinness World Records. It holds the record for Most ship horns in a piece of music. The piece was performed by three brass bands, 60 ships at sea and Souter Lighthouse Foghorn. The Guinness World Records entry reads: […]

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HavObservatoriet artwork by Lise Autogena and Joshua Portway launched at Vejle Klimapark, Denmark

HavObservatoriet

‘HavObservatoriet’ is a new artwork by Prof Lise Autogena and Joshua Portway for Vejle Klimapark. The artwork uses the latest forecasting data to create a visual representation of the predicted state of the ocean surrounding Denmark. It was launched on 31 October 2023 at Klimaparken, a major landscaping programme in the city of Vejle that prevents the city from flooding. […]

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Penny McCarthy receives DYCP award from Arts Council England

Photo-realistic pencil drawing of crashing ocean waves with moon in the background. Image provided by Penny McCarthy

Penny has received a Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP) award from Arts Council England to develop research towards her new project Ocean exploring art historical representations of Venice in relation to understandings of environmental catastrophe across time. Penny McCarthy is a Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University. Penny is an artist and academic with a particular interest in […]

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