omega (2004)
   


Single screen video projection with multi channel sound featuring the Soprano singer Germain Lewis of the Lydians Choir, Trinidad. The project was realised during a residency at CCA7 (Caribbean Contemporary Arts).
   
Video Still | dur. 03.10 | DVD | colour/multi-channel sound | Omega | 2004
 

Video Still | dur. 03.10 | DVD | colour/multi-channel sound | Omega | 2004

 



The video was filmed in a redundant Omega tracking Station in Chaguaramus, Trinidad. In 1977 the site was abandoned following the end of America's 36 year occupation of Chaguaramas. The Tracking Station is one of eight such installations around the globe. Together they formed the worlds first Global Navigation System.

The extraordinary acoustic of this utilitarian architecture and the buildings original function were reverberated by the vibrato voice of the Soprano.

Supported by
British Council
Arts Council of England
Triangle Trust
Gasworks Gallery
With Kind Support from
Petal Baird and the Chaguaramus Development Authority
The Lydians Choir
Nicholas Laughlin at Carribean Beat
CCA7. Trinidad
Casting Anu Lakhan
A/V support Media 21
Sound Mastered by Mr King

   
  external links:
  Omega was made possible by a Gasworks International Fellowship
  Funded by an Arts Council England International Artists Fellowship
  Hosted by CCA7 (Cairbbean Contemporary Arts)
  Omega was exhibited in The Limerick Biennial 2006, Give(a)way ev+a, Curated by Katerina Gregos
  Wikipedia entry on OMEGA Navigation System
   
  other related works:
  test signal (2006)
  somewhere somewhere nowhere (2006)
  more moving image works