FIRST BIRTH is the opening instalment of a new multi-part audio work created to accompany Alice Channer's sculptures 'Ammonite' and 'Ammonite' (2019). FIRST BIRTH excavates the many layers of ancient and present day production processes embedded in the sculptures' pleated skins, occupying warm shallow waters, expansive sands, rock pools and motorway sidings, with voices passing between human, non-human and elemental bodies.

Written, composed and produced by SHELL LIKE. Voiced by Madeleine Stack, Amy Lay-Pettifer, Fer Boyd, Alice Channer and Leyla Pillai. Visual by SHELL LIKE.

FIRST BIRTH, 2021

Exhibited at MACBA, Barcelona, as part of Lydia Ourahmane's '108 Days' (26 February 2024)

Blurb & installation images: https://ferboyd.hotglue.me/letsgetmortal

Let's Get Mortal

listening events curated by amy lay-pettifer and fer boyd 
www.shell-like.com

FIRST BIRTH, 2021

SHELL LIKE

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