WondHERland Collective research trip to St. Pancras

FESCH.TV INFORMIERT:

Inspired by Shezad Dawood’s commissioned sculpture for St.Pancras, the Nottingham based WondHERland Collective will create a series of podcasts/sound immersions that respond to Shezad’s artwork. These podcasts can be accessed via QR codes whilst viewing the artwork within St.Pancras, and will also be accessible as people travel to and from the station as ‚before, during and after‘ experiences.

The WondHERland Collective will re-imagine Alice In Wonderland, exploring their versions of a modern day Alice within contemporary Wonderlands. Listeners will be invited to think of Shezad’s artwork as a portal – a looking glass in the mould of Alice Liddell’s adventures – through which they can access different places, times, concepts and experiences. We will present St Pancras station as a labyrinth of portals, facilitating our passage across boundaries, and connecting us to others. We will invite them to muse on what it means to be „transported“; whether through a fairy tale, an imagined ride on a spaceship, or the 3.52pm to Clapham Common.

Through regular online session and ‚in person‘ intensives, the group will work with the NAE team (Parmjit and Saziso), Jaya Gordon Moore (musician and writer), Tom Harris (sound artist) and Honey Williams (visual artist) to create these sound experiences/immersions.

The podcasts will be completed, in time for the official launch of Shezad’s installation in September 2022.