We See Nothing Until We Truly Understand It

2014. Performance, 40:00 mins

We See Nothing Until We Truly Understand It was a performance and live broadcast at Flatford Mill in Suffolk, commissioned by Field Broadcast.

Performers were on boats on the River Stour. Initially indistinguishable from members of the public, they moved individually down stream and tethered their boats into a circle. A development from Vast as the Dark of Night and as the Light of Day (2014), key phrases from literary sources that described a voyage and return were repeatedly sung. As the performers physically joined together, their singing shifted from the individual to choral. From this brief synchronicity, the performers gradually and separately returned upstream.

We See Nothing Until We Truly Understand It

2014. Performance, 40:00 mins

Commissioned by Field Broadcast

Supported by Nottingham Trent University

Thanks to Musarc Choir