Between January and March 2010, Tiago E. wandered around the Union Chapel (Islington- London) capturing sounds: the sound of voices in hallways, the tuning of instruments, soundchecks, quiet noises, footsteps, doors opening and closing, the sound of sirens and traffic outside, the sounds of the unpredictable, the sound of “ghosts”…) and filming spaces, objects and architectural details (stained glass, windows, doors, shadows, corridors…). The idea was to make a documentary-essay, a collage of sounds and images to be presented in the form of a 30 minutes video/sound installation to be played in a loop. Here, sound is the primordial element. It is sound that reveals the vitality of a sacred building which became one of the most prominent live venues in the London music scene.
This installation by Tiago E. (Katzgraben) is a reflection about what is and what represents the Union Chapel. It is an attempt to recreate the common platform between religion and pop music, to link the sounds that live in the place to the infinite set of images they can represent. To expose the silence of prayers to concrete impossibility. This private viewing will be on the 13th of May 2010 in the Union Chapel bar.
