To celebrate the launch of The Golden Crown, a new site-based commission from artist Carol Sorhaindo that explores memory, reflection, time and fragmentation, join artists Carol Sorhaindo and Bella Milroy for a conversation exploring their research. The discussion will focus on their shared interests in growing projects and practices which are centred in collaboration and care.


The New Block Commission is a new set of commissioning from Wysing Arts Centre. Supported by the Art Fund Reimagine Project, the New Block Commission moves away from indoor, exhibition-based projects to an outdoor site-based approach that makes our work more visible.


This event has been published in two sections: 
The New Block Commission: Carol Sorhaindo and Bella Milroy in conversation: Part one: Presentations 
The New Block Commission: Carol Sorhaindo and Bella Milroy in conversation: Part two: Q&A 

On Wysing Broadcasts, this podcast is available as videos with toggleable closed captions. Click ‘CC’ on the YouTube videos to toggle this on or off. 
⁠https://www.wysingbroadcasts.art/discover/the-new-block-commission-carol-sorhaindo-and-bella-milroy-in-conversation⁠ 
You can also listen to the conversation as a podcast on SoundCloud, Spotify and other podcast platforms.


About Carol 
Carol Sorhaindo is a visual artist with an MA in Creative Practice and a diverse portfolio career. She draws inspiration from nature and landscapes, with a particular interest in plants of economic, health, and ethnobotanical interest on the island of Dominica where she currently lives. Her research extends to use of plants as pigments and fibre extraction for textile dyeing and creative applications.


Having lived in both the UK and Dominica, Carol’s own migration story, entangled transatlantic history and impact on mental wellbeing are of key importance. Carol explores the interplay of dark and light, joy and pain which are brought to light through botanical narratives which speak of migration, trauma, African and indigenous knowledge, resistance and healing. Carol also took part in a residency at Wysing in 2022.


About Bella 
Bella Milroy is an artist and writer who lives in her hometown of Chesterfield, Derbyshire. She works responsively through mediums of sculpture, drawing, photography, text, writing, gardening and curating. She makes work about making work (and being disabled) and not being able to make work (and being disabled). This process-based practice is fundamental to her as a disabled artist. She is continually motivated by concepts of public and private spaces and where the sick and/or disabled body exists within them, themes which emerge throughout much of her work.

The New Block Commission: Carol Sorhaindo and Bella Milroy in conversation: Part two: Q&A

A remix of "Bermondsey Lagoon" from Ectopia's debut album "life/section". Digital version of the album is on Bandcamp here https://wysingpolyphonic.bandcamp.com/album/life-section
Vinyl version available from here http://www.wysingartscentre.org/shop/shop_item/ectopia_life_section

Ectopia Remix

Ectopia – Bermondsey Lagoon (Golden Temple Remix)

NTS LIVE SET [September 4, 2018]

This mix is part of Polyphonic mix series by Wysing Arts Center. 

https://tankmagazine.com/tank/2020/08/crystallmess-wysing-polyphonic/

INTROLUDO INFERNO, is “built around Interludes and Intros - sonic interstices that often allow musicians to be their most vulnerable and reveal the psyche behind their project”.

So far, so real - Gray 
CONSCIENTEOFTHESOUL (Good lads/Bad Lads blend) -  Covco
Over It (CRYSTALLMESS chopped and screwed edit) - Summer Walker 
Hello, it’s me - Katerina 
Side X Intro - Standing On The Corner 
10-34 Reprise - Fatima Al Qadiri 
There is only one year left - Busta Rhymes 
UWËM/CREATION - Space Afrika 
Temps Mort - Booba 
Nothing Without Intention - Solange 
Fröjd - Suutoo 
The Infamous Prelude - Mobb Deep 
Baby Girl Interlude / Intro - Missy Eliott 
Arm N Leg Intro - ???
Direct Line - Dean Blunt 
Needle Dreams - Terribilis 
Claiborne Kick - Westside Gunn ft Boldy James 
Intro Al Naafyish - DJ Feadz
Intro Star Wars - Kelis 
Unknown Interlude - Drexciya 
Yelwa Procession 
CREAM - Lee Gamble 
Black Feathers - Black Replica 
Lars Von Sen - Mr.Oizo

INTROLUDO INFERNO MIXTAPE

A soundtrack to grieve over alternative realities. 

Thank you to Brenda for actually taking me on a night ride to record the sounds and @mangovivi for the beautiful third track (at around 5min)

Interview on:
https://tankmagazine.com/tank/2020/08/mobilegirl-wysing-polyphonic/

II - for Wysing Polyphonic: The Ungoverned

Wysing Arts Centre is a thriving cultural campus of ten buildings across an 11acre rural site in south Cambridgeshire which hosts experimental 
residencies for UK and international artists, and delivers a critically acclaimed public programme of gallery exhibitions and events including conferences, symposia, workshops and music events. 

Buy the first release by music project Ectopia from our website: 7 tracks, mixed and mastered by Rupert Clervaux

The New Block Commission: Carol Sorhaindo and Bella Milroy in conversation: Part two: Q&A

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