A Footnote. [April. 1943. Wysokie_ Mazowieckie.] // Sound piece 1

Audio piece played at an intervention marking the inauguration of #Faith – The Protest Faith Movement - at 'Urban Dialogues’, Red Gallery, Old Street, London's East End, 1 October 2013. 

Performers invited members of the public to take part in a candlelight vigil. Participants knelled and lit a candle before (unidentified) portraits of protestors (part of Tsafrir's Icons. series). They were then inaugurated into #Faith through a ritual involving the tying of a delicate textile ribbon around their little finger.  No explanation was given. No unscripted communication was allowed.

Permitted communication (performers' script): 'Open Space', 'Open Heart', 'Be Still', 'Reflect', 'Feel Secure', 'Be Loved', 'Light a Candle', 'Pray'.

Credits and special thanks (audio piece): 

Rare underlying music: Carl Smith (Psyico-Analysis, ‘Anime’, Squirrel Records).  

Recorded original sound: Eran Tsafrir. 

Sound editing and design: Hilit Rozental and Eran Tsafrir. 

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A Vigil. audio piece_extract. erantsafrir.com

This audio piece forms part of ascensIon., a mixed-media site-specific installation by Eran Tsafrir that was on show at the hidden Old Shoreditch Station Project Space in London’s East End in December 2011 – January 2012.

Passing a hidden black door and equipped with only a torch, a visitor to ascensIon. was plunged into a dark, derelict space, a solitary journey through the interior of the old Shoreditch station; an ascension to a setting of ethereal photographic images of a snow white English landscape enclosed in lead structures, suspended above mounds of earth, grit, bricks, tarmac and cement – to Gol'gotha.

Fragments of video footage of protests and riots veiled by tarnished processed fabric and newspapers emerged from behind the composition. Audio elements resonated within the space –- political speeches and statements about the effect of snow on the faltering economy, parliamentary debates, a rioting black bloc, the chiming bells of St. Paul’s Cathedral, and from above, the ‘live’ sounds of trains passing that rattled and quaked the space.

(c) Eran Tsafrir. All rights reserved and all moral rights are asserted and reserved.