Songs for the Storm to Come

An immersive sound and multi-screen video installation, by award winning, internationally renowned Greek/British artist, Mikhail Karikis.

It focuses on collective and individual responses to the impending transformations of the UK, as forecast by climate change scientists. Powerfully evocative, the work searches for ways to activate hopeful shared futures.

Continuing his practice of collaboration with communities, Karikis worked with members of Manchester based SHE cooperative choir for women and non-binary people, and with sound researchers from the School of Digital Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University. In Songs for the Storm to Come, the choir members observe maps sourced from climate modelling data, showing Britain’s transformed geography for 2050 as a result of rising sea levels. They reflect on the radical social and political changes required, and call for the power to bring us together to form communities in the face of these changes.

For the Festive period, the Main Gallery will close at 16:00 on Dec 24, 26, and 31, with bookable slots at 12:00 and 14:00.

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