A series of making/disrupting/unmaking interventions across Newbridge Project, Newcastle City Centre and Star and Shadow. 

Dawn Felicia Knox and Marek Gabrysch have been working dialogue across the former Star and Shadow Cinema site and the layers of time below the foundations to create a field of sonic and sculptural unearthings.

The installation will be open during this event and on Thursday the 6th from noon until 7 at which point it will be taken over by the Tyneside Sound Society live take over event: UNMAKING THE GROUND

For three years Dawn explored/inhabited/disrupted a derelict, post-industrial building that was once home to the Star and Shadow Cinema. Using scientific, mythological and artistic methods, she has pulled back the layers of time to investigate the toxicity, liminality and displacement that is held in our built and unbuilding environment. All the while the building was moving closer to demolition – archaeologists dug down to the remnants of Hadrian’s Wall, works crews bore down 40 meters past the glacial drift searching for bedrock and the volunteer force of Star and Shadow harvesting what could be reused in their new venue. 

Dawn dug through the ‘Made Ground’, the residue of all that was made and unmade, to create a series of concrete sculptures and textual interventions.

Marek has recorded all aspects of work from the deep subterranean rumbling of the bore holing and the micro-sound of the building being prepared for demolition via a series of contact microphones and ambisonic recordings. The sound field will map across 8 channels.