Floating Worlds: Erraid Sound
An opportunity to experience 'Floating Worlds: Erraid Sound', a short film by the renowned Scottish theatre director Graham Eatough, and the Dutch visual artist Andre Dekker, known for his public art with Observatorium.
ARC Public
Date: Wednesday 15 November 2023 - Thursday 16 November 2023
Time: 10:00 - 18:00
Venue: Advanced Research Centre
Category: Films and theatre
Free, unticketed - just drop in!
'Floating Worlds: Erraid Sound' is a short film by the renowned Scottish theatre director Graham Eatough, and the Dutch visual artist Andre Dekker, known for his public art with Observatorium.
In September 2020 the artists spent one month in the remote coastal landscape to research Erraid Sound, the tidal flat between the Ross of Mull and the Island of Erraid. Through an exploration of our relationship with the natural environment the project offers an artistic response in drawing, writing and film to some of today's most pressing issues: our changing climate, rising sea levels, and an ageing and sometimes isolated population.
This film is programmed in conversation with the Journey to the Isles screening on 16 November, as part of the 2023 Being Human Festival.
More about Floating Worlds
'Floating Worlds' is an ongoing multi-disciplinary exploration of our relationship with the natural environment.
A collaboration between theatre-maker Graham Eatough and visual artist Andre Dekker, the project offers an artistic response to negotiations with landscape and climate amongst an ageing and sometimes isolated population. The first part of the project took place between lockdowns in 2021 and resulted in a short film and an artists' book publication. The Hunterian premiered these two components in November 2021 during COP26, as part of the group exhibition 'Dislocations: territories, landscapes and other spaces'.
'Floating Worlds: Erraid Sound' has two distinct geographical and cultural influences: it was filmed in the remote coastal landscape and island community of the Ross of Mull but it also draws extensively on the artists’ continuing research into Japanese theatre’s relationship with landscape and the natural world. In connecting these two disparate locations and cultural contexts, 'Floating Worlds' creates a space to reflect on how landscape might be imagined and inhabited anew.