When We Bow Down Our Heads Art Installation | Sep. 26 – Oct. 24 WindScape Brooklyn is pleased to present a sound and video work created by John Roach for the immersive theater, the Storybox.
Breezes, gusts and gales offer a visceral experience of climate as they batter, tickle and whistle their way through our human imagination. Wind is a central feature of our myths and our histories. It has shaped our lives for millennia and our earth for eons. Roach’s work, “When We Bow Down Our Heads,” celebrates the resonance of wind and its promiscuous and borderless nature with a quadraphonic soundscape that envelops the listener. It combines 10 years of spatialized field recordings, performances by Wolf Robert Stratmann (double bass) and Inbal Hever (voice), and is punctuated by interviews with climate scientist Joonsuk Kang, artist Raven Chacon, and illustrator Lauren Redniss.
Accompanying the sound is a work created for WindScape Brooklyn’s massive Storybox video wall which portrays a shifting landscape of windswept grasses, trees and turbines along with a scrolling graphic score that Roach created to guide the musicians who improvised with his soundscape.
Showings of this incredible installation will kick off at the end of Climate Week on September 26 and run through October 24. During that window, the work will screen during WindScape Brooklyn’s Public Open Hours: Saturdays 1:00-2:00 PM & 3:00-4:00 PM. Visit WindScape Brooklyn's Events page
If you have a group that would like to request a showing outside of these times, please email windscapebrooklyn@equinor.com.
