A new app featuring a site-responsive, immersive sound artwork designed for Derry’s historic city walls will launch this September.
Created by artist Christopher Steenson, Almanac for a Walled City is an interactive soundwalk accessed through a geolocated app. The experience takes inspiration from the importance of almanacs and weather forecasting in Irish history to speculate on the future of Derry, as listeners walked along the city’s 400-year-old walls.
Surveying today's existing landscape, listeners will reflect on Derry's current place in ecological history, while contemplating how the relationship between our society and our environment might change over the next 400 years, as it is shaped by our ever-changing weather.
Experience it for yourself
The app will launch with a series of public events from Friday 1 – Sunday 3 September including opportunities for the public to meet the artist before taking a self-guided tour or attending an In Conversation event to find out more about the project and Christopher’s artistic process.
Friday 1 September
1pm — Meet the artist at Nerve Centre and find out more about the project before taking your own self-guided tour
7pm — An In Conversation event with Christopher Steenson at The Playhouse
Saturday 2 September
11am or 2pm — Meet the artist at Nerve Centre and find out more about the project before taking your own self-guided tour
Sunday 3 September
11am or 2pm — Meet the artist at Nerve Centre and find out more about the project before taking your own self-guided tour
Almanac for a Walled City has been created in collaboration with Nerve Centre and is supported by the ESB Brighter Future Arts Fund in partnership with Business to Arts.
Find out more about Almanac for a Walled City.
