Annis Harrison
Memory of Joy - Soundscape
This immersive soundscape merges visual art and sound to capture the joyful memories of the first tastes of the sensuous fruits of the Caribbean.
Interviews with people from the post-Windrush Caribbean generation will capture some of the yearning, the nostalgia and the joy, transporting us to a past time and place - the 1970s kitchen, the mountain village in St Lucia, the market stall in the UK.
The soundscape will weave snippets of these interviews with multiple textures. A dub-style soundtrack will bind it all together, with words, beats and sound FX repeating and echoing, falling into the bass-heavy rhythms, moving from abstract to concrete.
An Immersive Journey
This will be a walk-though, access-for-all, exhibition.
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Our space will wash you with sound and image, taking you deep into those memories, those moments of joy.
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Part-story, part-testimony, the soundscape is to pull all these contributions together to create a world of possibilities, a sonic tree of storied memories, which the audience, the listener, can suffuse themselves in.​
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The Community
Community Outreach and Process
One of the remits of this project is to engage with a part of the community that does not traditionally access galleries and museums.
Annis Harrison intends to partner with community organisations to help access the community for content creation, and also to help set up the exhibition in an accessible, inclusive environmental.
The Archive
This project celebrates the history and heritage of the post-Windrush generation, as well as the following generations. Culturally, it intends to capture a part of this history before it’s gone, and to permanently store and access the content in an archive, allowing the material to be used for research, etc, at a later date.
The Artist
About the artist and her work
Annis Harrison is a multi-disciplinary artist, whose work includes painting, drawing, ceramics, and sculpture, exploring the way in which her personal history, together with her Caribbean heritage, intersects with the wider diasporic experience, exposing what has been lost, hidden, and stripped away, as well as celebrating the joy that remains.
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Forbidden fruit 2019