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Swimming Home is a private meditation that takes place in your bathroom. Developed through interviews with swimmers from all over the UK, you will be immersed in an aquatic and sonic world. The ordinary becomes fantastic, your home becomes a film set and the bathtub or shower turns into a deep swimming pool at the bottom of which we sit quietly. You travel through an underwater reality all the way to the bottom of a pool, where time is suspended. The piece is experienced following an audio track which guides the participants through a series of actions to be performed in their own bath. The track uses 3D sounds, binaural and underwater recordings, in order to recreate and amplify the sense of being in the swimming pool, taking you all the way to the bottom (where sound is quick and thick) and back to break the surface. Narrating voices belong to Silvia Mercuriali, Sam Booth and Simon Kane and to the swimmers' interviewed by the artist during the R&D process. Multiple voices mixed in with a combination of ambient sound music and bits of filmic dialogues, transporting us, in and out of the pool, allowing the audience to superimpose imagined realities onto that which they watch. Despite the confines of a bathtub, participants travel through an underwater reality all the way to the bottom of a pool, where time is suspended, and then back to break the surface. The piece ends just as the next act starts: by the edge of the pool about to jump in. Narrating voices belong to Silvia Mercuriali, Sam Booth and Simon Kane and to the swimmers' interviewed by the artist during the R&D process.

Cast/Performers

Silvia Mercuriali, Sam Booth, Simon Kane, Amy Cooper, Mar

Creatives/Company

Author: Silvia Mercuriali
Director: Silvia Mercuriali
Sound: Michele Panegrossi (+ App Development)

Swimming Home

Swimming Home (Streamed/Broadcast) production archive for QTIX code T01631893765. Details of all Swimming Home archived productions can be found under the QTIX code: S0479352542

Archive Listings

16 Mar 21
  to
20 Mar 21
Bristol Old Vic
Bristol, City of Bristol
Performance Details => Venue archive
5 Oct 20
  to
31 Oct 20
Streaming Performances
Internet, Broadcast
Performance Details => Venue archive

Reviews

No UKTW or User reviews available.
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