Omega (2004)


Single screen video projection with multi channel sound featuring the Soprano singer Germain Lewis of the Lydians Choir, Trinidad.

Filmed in a redundant Omega tracking Station in Chaguaramus, Trinidad. In 1977 the site had been 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 unusual acoustic of this utilitarian architecture and the buildings original function were reverberated by the vibrato voice of the Soprano.
   
Video Still | dur. 03.10 | DVD | colour/multi-channel sound | Omega | 2004
 

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

14 March - 24 May, 2006
The Limerick Biennial 2006, Give(a)way ev+a, Curated by Katerina Gregos
  14 September to 26 October, 2006; Tuesdays to Fridays, 12 to 5 pm, Saturdays, 10 am to 5 pm 
Galvanize - CCA7, Trinidad
   
  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)
  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
   
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