A multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers. 

Each speaker transmits its own separate selection of recordings, arranged consecutively and looped, so that when all speakers play at the same time an ever-changing sound environment is experienced. Members of the audiences may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work. 

The project started in 1999 and is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in the host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.

http://www.theotherjameswebb.com/prayer.html

All rights reserved. The copyright for this audio piece is reserved.
Any replication or use of content such as images, audio and texts is not permitted without James Webb and the recorded participant’s written consent.

Gallery representation: 
Galerie Imane Farès, Paris www.imanefares.com 
blank projects, Cape Town www.blankprojects.com

Prayer

A recording of Thuy Hoa Thiên Liên from the Truc Lam Tempel Vietnamesiska Buddhistiska Kulturföreningen as part of "Prayer (Malmö)" presented at Wanås Konst in 2015, curated by Elisabeth Millqvist, with production assistance by Albin Hillervik.

Prayer is a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers.

Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audiences may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work.

The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in the host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.

Prayer is an on-going project that has, to date, been presented in South Africa, Denmark, Norway and the UK.

www.theotherjameswebb.com/prayer.html

All rights reserved. The copyright for this audio piece is reserved.
Any replication or use of content such as images, audio and texts is not permitted without James Webb's written consent.

Gallery representation: 
Galerie Imane Farès, Paris www.imanefares.com 
blank projects, Cape Town www.blankprojects.com

Thuy Hoa Thiên Liên, Song To Guanyin_Prayer (Malmö)

A recording of Sister Jenny Koyne from the Sisters Of Our Lady Of Charity Of The Refuge as part of "Prayer (Birmingham)" presented at the Fierce Festival 2011, curated by Laura McDermott and Harun Morrison.

Started in 2000, Prayer is a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers.

Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audiences may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work.

The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in the host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.

Prayer is an on-going project that has, to date, been presented in South Africa, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the UK.

www.theotherjameswebb.com/prayer.html

All rights reserved. The copyright for this audio piece is reserved.
Any replication or use of content such as images, audio and texts is not permitted without James Webb's written consent.

Gallery representation: 
Galerie Imane Farès, Paris www.imanefares.com 
blank projects, Cape Town www.blankprojects.com

Sisters Of Our Lady Of Charity Of The Refuge_Prayer (Birmingham)

A recording of Veronica Palgrave from the Shiloh Pentecostal Church as part of "Prayer (Birmingham)" presented at the Fierce Festival 2011, curated by Laura McDermott and Harun Morrison.

Started in 2000, Prayer is a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers.

Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audiences may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work.

The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in the host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.

Prayer is an on-going project that has, to date, been presented in South Africa, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the UK.

www.theotherjameswebb.com/prayer.html

All rights reserved. The copyright for this audio piece is reserved.
Any replication or use of content such as images, audio and texts is not permitted without James Webb's written consent.

Gallery representation: 
Galerie Imane Farès, Paris www.imanefares.com 
blank projects, Cape Town www.blankprojects.com

Shiloh Pentecostal Church_Prayer (Birmingham)

A recording of Sri Gurvastaka by Jirakesha devi dasi, Kamala Priya, and Mandaleshvari devi dasi from ISKCON Sweden and Bhakti Yoga Society in Stockholm as part of "Prayer (Stockholm)" curated by Helene Larsson Pousette for “History Unfolds” at Historiska in 2016, with research and production assistance by Susanna Zidén and IASPIS.

Prayer is a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers. Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audience may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work.
The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in that host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.

Prayer is an on-going project that has, to date, been presented in South Africa, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
All rights reserved. The copyright for this audio piece is reserved.

Any replication or use of content such as images, audio and texts is not permitted without James Webb and the recorded participant’s written consent.

Gallery representation: 
Galerie Imane Farès, Paris www.imanefares.com 
blank projects, Cape Town www.blankprojects.com

Sri Gurvastaka_Prayer (Stockholm)

A recording of Jaya Radhe Jaya Krishna by Mandaleshvari devi dasi from the Bhakti Yoga Society in Stockholm as part of "Prayer (Stockholm)" curated by Helene Larsson Pousette for “History Unfolds” at Historiska in 2016, with research and production assistance by Susanna Zidén and IASPIS. 

Prayer is a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers. Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audiences may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work.
The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in the host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.

Prayer is an on-going project that has, to date, been presented in South Africa, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
All rights reserved. The copyright for this audio piece is reserved.

Any replication or use of content such as images, audio and texts is not permitted without James Webb and the recorded participant’s written consent.

Gallery representation: 
Galerie Imane Farès, Paris www.imanefares.com 
blank projects, Cape Town www.blankprojects.com

Jaya Radhe Jaya Krishna_Prayer (Stockholm)

A recording of Phramaha Boonthin Taosiri, Phramaha Chimphli Phonmahakun, Phra Sakron Wattana, and Mattias Bärlund, from the Buddharam Temple, Värmdö, Stockholm, the first Thai Buddhist temple built in Scandinavia, as part of "Prayer (Stockholm)" curated by Helene Larsson Pousette for “History Unfolds” at Historiska in 2016, with research and production assistance by Susanna Zidén and IASPIS. The recording was done on Friday, the 14th of October 2016, a day after the passing of King Bhumibol the Great. 

Prayer is a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers. Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audiences may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work.
The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in the host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.

Prayer is an on-going project that has, to date, been presented in South Africa, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

All rights reserved. The copyright for this audio piece is reserved.

Any replication or use of content such as images, audio and texts is not permitted without James Webb and the recorded participant’s written consent.

Gallery representation: 
Galerie Imane Farès, Paris www.imanefares.com 
blank projects, Cape Town www.blankprojects.com

Värmdö Buddharam Temple_Prayer (Stockholm)

A recording of the Venerable Ru Hai of the Buddha’s Light International Association as part of "Prayer (Stockholm)," curated by Helene Larsson Pousette for “History Unfolds” at Historiska in 2016, with research and production assistance by Susanna Zidén and IASPIS.

Prayer is a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers. Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audiences may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work.
The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in the host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.

Prayer is an on-going project that has, to date, been presented in South Africa, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

All rights reserved. The copyright for this audio piece is reserved.
Any replication or use of content such as images, audio and texts is not permitted without James Webb and the recorded participant’s written consent.

Gallery representation: 
Galerie Imane Farès, Paris www.imanefares.com 
blank projects, Cape Town www.blankprojects.com

Venerable Ru Hai_Prayer (Stockholm)

A recording of Gabriel Bar-Same from the Sankt Ignatios Theological Academy as part of "Prayer (Stockholm)" curated by Helene Larsson Pousette for “History Unfolds” at Historiska in 2016, with research and production assistance by Susanna Zidén and IASPIS.

Prayer is a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers. Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audiences may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work.
The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in the host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.

Prayer is an on-going project that has, to date, been presented in South Africa, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
All rights reserved. The copyright for this audio piece is reserved.
Any replication or use of content such as images, audio and texts is not permitted without James Webb and the recorded participant’s written consent.

Gallery representation: 
Galerie Imane Farès, Paris www.imanefares.com 
blank projects, Cape Town www.blankprojects.com

Gabriel Bar-Sawme_Sankt Ignatios Theological Academy_Prayer (Stockholm)

A recording of Mahsa Haei of the Swedish Bahá’í community as part of "Prayer (Stockholm)" curated by Helene Larsson Pousette for “History Unfolds” at Historiska in 2016, with research and production assistance by Susanna Zidén and IASPIS.

Prayer is a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers. Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audiences may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work.
The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in the host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.

Prayer is an on-going project that has, to date, been presented in South Africa, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
All rights reserved. The copyright for this audio piece is reserved.
Any replication or use of content such as images, audio and texts is not permitted without James Webb and the recorded participant’s written consent.

Gallery representation: 
Galerie Imane Farès, Paris www.imanefares.com 
blank projects, Cape Town www.blankprojects.com

Mahsa Haei_Bahá’í Stockholm_Prayer (Stockholm)

A recording of the Mar Yousif Syrisk katolska kyrkas kör i Södertälje as part of "Prayer (Stockholm)" curated by Helene Larsson Pousette for “History Unfolds” at Historiska in 2016, with research and production assistance by Susanna Zidén and IASPIS. In this track the choir are performing the Lord’s Prayer in Aramaic, and with the Syrian Orthodox melody.

Prayer is a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers. Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audiences may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work.
The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in the host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.
Prayer is an on-going project that has, to date, been presented in South Africa, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
All rights reserved. The copyright for this audio piece is reserved.
Any replication or use of content such as images, audio and texts is not permitted without James Webb and the recorded participant’s written consent.

Gallery representation: 
Galerie Imane Farès, Paris www.imanefares.com 
blank projects, Cape Town www.blankprojects.com

Mar Yousif Syrisk Katolska Kyrkas Kör I Södertälje_Prayer (Stockholm)

A recording of Marrakchi Abdelaziz performing the Adhan at Stockholms Moské as part of "Prayer (Stockholm)" curated by Helene Larsson Pousette for “History Unfolds” at Historiska in 2016, with research and production assistance by Susanna Zidén and IASPIS.

Prayer is a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers. Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audiences may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work.
The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in the host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.

Prayer is an on-going project that has, to date, been presented in South Africa, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
All rights reserved. The copyright for this audio piece is reserved.
Any replication or use of content such as images, audio and texts is not permitted without James Webb and the recorded participant’s written consent.

Gallery representation: 
Galerie Imane Farès, Paris www.imanefares.com 
blank projects, Cape Town www.blankprojects.com

Marrakchi Abdelaziz_Stockholms Moské_Prayer (Stockholm)

A recording of Blessing Olarewaju Omogunloye from the Yoruba Union Stockholm as part of "Prayer (Stockholm)" curated by Helene Larsson Pousette for “History Unfolds” at Historiska in 2016, with research and production assistance by Susanna Zidén and IASPIS.

Prayer is a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers. Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audiences may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work.
The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in the host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.

Prayer is an on-going project that has, to date, been presented in South Africa, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
All rights reserved. The copyright for this audio piece is reserved.
Any replication or use of content such as images, audio and texts is not permitted without James Webb and the recorded participant’s written consent.

Gallery representation: 
Galerie Imane Farès, Paris www.imanefares.com 
blank projects, Cape Town www.blankprojects.com

Blessing Olarewaju Omogunloye_Prayer (Stockholm)

A recording of members of the Russian Orthodox Church in Copenhagen as part of "Prayer (København)" presented at the My World Images festival in 2010, and curated by Thomas Burø, Maiken Vibe Bauer, and Tobias Kirstein.

Prayer is a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers.

Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audiences may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work.

The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in the host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.

Prayer is an on-going project that has, to date, been presented in South Africa, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the UK.

www.theotherjameswebb.com/prayer.html

All rights reserved. The copyright for this audio piece is reserved.
Any replication or use of content such as images, audio and texts is not permitted without James Webb and the recorded participant's consent written consent.

Gallery representation: 
Galerie Imane Farès, Paris www.imanefares.com 
blank projects, Cape Town www.blankprojects.com

Russian Orthodox Church_Prayer (København)

A recording of Rev. Sungsim Lee, Ven. Jungkil Lee, Yejung Yun, and Rev. Insik Kim of Won Bul-Kyo as part of "Prayer (Chicago)" curated by Matthew Witkowsky for The Art Institute of Chicago, with research and production assistance by Allie Beck and Brontë Mansfield.

Prayer is a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers. Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audiences may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work.
The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in the host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.

Prayer is an on-going project that has, to date, been presented in South Africa, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
All rights reserved. The copyright for this audio piece is reserved.
Any replication or use of content such as images, audio and texts is not permitted without James Webb and the recorded participant’s written consent.

Gallery representation: 
Galerie Imane Farès, Paris www.imanefares.com 
blank projects, Cape Town www.blankprojects.com

Won Bul - Kyo_Prayer (Chicago)

A recording of members of Saint James Episcopal Cathedral choir as part of "Prayer (Chicago)" curated by Matthew Witkowsky for The Art Institute of Chicago, with research and production assistance by Allie Beck and Brontë Mansfield.

Prayer is a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers. Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audiences may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work.
The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in the host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.

Prayer is an on-going project that has, to date, been presented in South Africa, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
All rights reserved. The copyright for this audio piece is reserved.
Any replication or use of content such as images, audio and texts is not permitted without James Webb and the recorded participant’s written consent.

Gallery representation: 
Galerie Imane Farès, Paris www.imanefares.com 
blank projects, Cape Town www.blankprojects.com

Saint James Episcopal Cathedral choir_Prayer (Chicago)

A recording of Rabbi Capers C. Funnye Jr. of the Beth Shalom B'nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation as part of "Prayer (Chicago)" curated by Matthew Witkowsky for The Art Institute of Chicago, with research and production assistance by Allie Beck and Brontë Mansfield.

Prayer is a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers. Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audiences may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work.
The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in the host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.

Prayer is an on-going project that has, to date, been presented in South Africa, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
All rights reserved. The copyright for this audio piece is reserved.
Any replication or use of content such as images, audio and texts is not permitted without James Webb and the recorded participant’s written consent.

Gallery representation: 
Galerie Imane Farès, Paris www.imanefares.com 
blank projects, Cape Town www.blankprojects.com

Rabbi Funnye, Beth Shalom B'nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation_Prayer (Chicago)

A recording of Sri Viswanathan Kalyanasundaram, Sri Subhadracharyulu Srinivasula, Sri Hanumanth Prasad Paramkusam, and Sri Begur Nagendra Rao of the Sri Venkateswara Swami Balaji Temple as part of "Prayer (Chicago)" curated by Matthew Witkowsky for The Art Institute of Chicago, with research and production assistance by Allie Beck and Brontë Mansfield.

Prayer is a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers. Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audiences may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work.
The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in the host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.

Prayer is an on-going project that has, to date, been presented in South Africa, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
All rights reserved. The copyright for this audio piece is reserved.
Any replication or use of content such as images, audio and texts is not permitted without James Webb and the recorded participant’s written consent.

Gallery representation: 
Galerie Imane Farès, Paris www.imanefares.com 
blank projects, Cape Town www.blankprojects.com

Sri Venkateswara Swami Balaji_Prayer (Chicago)

A recording of members of the Eckankar, Illinois Satsang Society performing the Hu chant as part of "Prayer (Chicago)" curated by Matthew Witkowsky for The Art Institute of Chicago, with research and production assistance by Allie Beck and Brontë Mansfield.

Prayer is a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers. Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audiences may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work.
The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in the host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.

Prayer is an on-going project that has, to date, been presented in South Africa, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
All rights reserved. The copyright for this audio piece is reserved.
Any replication or use of content such as images, audio and texts is not permitted without James Webb and the recorded participant’s written consent.

Gallery representation: 
Galerie Imane Farès, Paris www.imanefares.com 
blank projects, Cape Town www.blankprojects.com

Eckankar, Illinois Satsang Society_Prayer (Chicago)

A recording of Chazan Albert Chait from the United Hebrew Congregation as part of "Prayer (Huddersfield)" presented at the Huddersfield Art Gallery in 2008.

Prayer is a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers.

Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audiences may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work.

The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in the host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.

Prayer is an on-going project that has, to date, been presented in South Africa, Denmark, Norway and the UK.

www.theotherjameswebb.com/prayer.html

All rights reserved. The copyright for this audio piece is reserved.
Any replication or use of content such as images, audio and texts is not permitted without James Webb's written consent.

Gallery representation: 
Galerie Imane Farès, Paris www.imanefares.com 
blank projects, Cape Town www.blankprojects.com

Chazan Albert Chait_Prayer (Huddersfield)

A recording of members of the Chasewood Baptist Church, Nottingham, for "Prayer (Nottingham)" presented at the Djanogly Gallery, Lakeside Art Centre in 2010.
 
Prayer is a multi-channel sound installation comprising recordings of prayer from all the religions in a specific city, broadcast simultaneously from 12 floor-based speakers.

Each speaker plays a separate, looped and unsynchronised, audio track, resulting in an ever-changing sound environment. Members of the audiences may choose to step on to the carpet, where they can wander freely through the installation, thus composing their own symphony of voices from all the speakers at once. Alternatively, they may kneel down to listen to particular prayers broadcast from an individual speaker. This more intimate way of listening introduces a highly symbolic visual dimension to the work.

The project is created in situ every time, and the prayers are collected from all the different religious groups operating in the host city. These have included, but are not limited to, most denominations of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism, as well as new religious movements and traditional, pre-Christian faiths.

Prayer is an on-going project that has, to date, been presented in South Africa, Denmark, Norway and the UK.

www.theotherjameswebb.com/prayer.html

All rights reserved. The copyright for this audio piece is reserved.
Any replication or use of content such as images, audio and texts is not permitted without James Webb's written consent.

Gallery representation: 
Galerie Imane Farès, Paris www.imanefares.com 
blank projects, Cape Town www.blankprojects.com

Chasewood Baptist Church_Prayer (Nottingham)

James Webb is an artist, recognised for his site-specific interventions and installations. His practice often involves sound, found objects, and text, invoking references to literature, cinema, and the conceptualist traditions. By shifting objects, techniques, and forms beyond their original contexts and introducing them to different environments, Webb creates new spaces of tension. These spaces bind Webb’s background in religion, theatre, and advertising, offering poetic inquiries into the economies of belief and dynamics of communication in our contemporary world.

As Brandon LaBelle writes, “The works of James Webb circulate around a complex mixture of emotional and affective states; of longing and despair, of the ecstatic and of hopefulness, states of bodies and minds that move throughout his practice to raise questions of individuality and community, belonging and displacement, fragmentation and recuperation.” (Xenagogue, edited by Anthea Buys, published by the Hordaland Kunstsenter, 2015.)

Webb has had solo exhibitions at, amongst others, the Art Institute of Chicago, USA (2018); SPACES, Cleveland, USA (2018); Norrtälje Konsthall, Norrtälje, Sweden (2018); Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, United Kingdom (2016); Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway (2015); CentroCentro, Madrid, Spain (2013); Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa (2012); and mac, Birmingham, United Kingdom (2010).

Major group exhibitions include the 13th Biennial of Dakar (2018), 4th Prospect Triennial of New Orleans (2017), Documenta 14 (2017), 13th Biennial of Sharjah (2017), 12th Bienal de la Habana (2015), 55th Biennale di Venezia (2013), 3rd Marrakech Biennale (2009), Melbourne International Arts Festival (2009), and the 8th Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon (2007). Other notable group shows include  those at spaces such as Wanås Konst and Historiska, Sweden; MAXXI Roma, Italy; Darat al Funun, Jordan; Théâtre Graslin, France; and the Tate Modern, London. 

Webb’s projects have been the subject of the two monographs, “. . .” (blank projects, 2020), and “Xenagogue” (Hordaland Kunstsenter, 2015). 

Impressum: All rights reserved. The copyright for these audio pieces and artworks  are reserved. Any replication or use of the content such as images, audio, and texts is not permitted without James Webb’s written consent.

Gallery representation: 
Galerie Imane Farès, Paris www.imanefares.com 
blank projects, Cape Town www.blankprojects.com