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Lauren Healey, Taryn Edmonds

Linear Shift

0 | 0 | couleur | 17:30 | Royaume-Uni, 0 | 2012

Combining the language of documentary and artists film genres, Linear Shift draws on the historical and geographical locale of the North East of England to evoke the wider, national story of traditionally industrial locations during this time of economic instability. Whilst the visuals serve to document the current landscape in a photographic and almost painterly fashion, the audio highlights the feeling of the site, bringing in residues from the past - the boom of previous activity against the current stillness, as redundant spaces await redevelopment. Giving a different context to the visuals, the soundscape introduces disjointed and alternative narratives to the viewer, alternating between almost imperceptible sounds within the silence, alongside the reality of remaining life on the river.

Taryn Edmonds works across documentary film, new media and installation to explore socio-political issues inherent to the city, such as regeneration, community identity and representation. She has exhibited nationally and produced short films for broadcast. She recently worked as artist and project manager on ?Archive for Change? [http://archiveforchange.org/] a participatory film project exploring the architectural and emotional landscape of a neighbourhood in Newcastle undergoing wide-spread regeneration, which culminated in a large-scale public event. Lauren Healey works with photography, installation, sculpture and audio, making works around the subjectivity of documentation, in relation to domestic and urban environments. She has exhibited and worked on projects nationally, recently working with VARC on Response: A Rural / Urban Conversation, PVA MediaLab on a SALT sound residency and the Universities of Manchester and Chester on the research project Seeing the City Anew, in which asylum seekers use photography as a way of describing their relationship to their adopted home.