Doggerland Channels

Doggerland Channels

Middlesbrough Arts Week 2024

Location

Centre Square 2

Date & time

Fri 29th Sept – Sat 7th Oct

Olivia Louvel reinstalled Doggerland Channels at Middlesbrough Art Week 2023 for the group show Land-Fill, also exhibiting artists Rong Bao and Jacob Takolwski.

Doggerland Channels is a generative sound-relief based on the ancient land which once linked Britain to the continent. The cartographic sound art installation for voice and data projection throws a net over the North Sea, revealing the rivers which used
to connect us to the continent – when the Thames flowed into the Rhine. Doggerland Channels is a landscape whose borders are fluid, fluvial, in need of being retraced, and revealed for a translated experience of the site.

Programme
“Olivia Louvel’s Doggerland Channels steps back in time to reveal the ancient Dogger-land which once linked Britain to the continent. The work questions our connection to the continent and situates outselves – as islanders – in this transitory zone: our political exit from the EU. What is your relationship to the continent?”

Image: Yuhao Chen
Image: Yuhao Chen