Resting Place (2018)

Scotty, Berlin

Resting Place was an audio/multi-sensory installation that invited the audience to lounge and rest on sculptural textile forms laid upon a bed of straw. The sound score was composed of lullabies sung by a diverse population: friends and family, performers and fellow artists, refugee youth and the elderly, etc. The musical, cultural, and generational range of overlapping recordings was designed to underscore the power of voice to comfort the young—our future, in essence—as a universal and primal instinct to care and soothe. Providing an intimate and embodied opportunity to explore the intersections of personal and public space, cross-cultural encounters, and notions of rest as surrender, the work centred on the possibilities of deeply listening and song to heal.