Over the past year, Barnet-based artist Becky Lyon, as part of the Light + Flight cultural programme, has hosted sensory installations, one-on-one performances, and stone safaris across the Barnet Plateau, bringing to light the shared resonances deep beneath our feet.
This culminates in Solidarities, an new installation with a very special audio enlivenment by bill daggs.
a leyline, a faultline, a composition of handmade sculptural sonic objects <> a threshold. a fence. a boundary. an invitation. a symbol of restraint. a symbol of refusal. a musical score of storied stones. im-migrated and inter-grated matters. <> solidarity is a bumpy ride, says sara ahmed. feeling for something deeper through our bodies. through the deep down. riffing across the rifts. so many rifts. brown barnet clay body. white cliff body. your body. <> the earth is also a skin, says katherine mckittrick. stone circles. spiral circles. spiral tribe. whispered wise words. skinned stones. a scored stone. a geohaptic encounter. <> the land pulses back. the land reflects back. echoes before the echo chambers. calls. responses. making the earth shake. making the earth dance. <> a stone strata. a cairn. a soil horizon. a sound system. building down. breaking up. arts of repair. arts of restoration. re-storyation. speakers. flyers. ancient geology. future geology. a sensuous geography <> weathering the rocky ground. between a rock and a hard place <> solid. so solid. solidities. solidarity. solidarities.
Becky Lyon is an artist and researcher of mixed British and Jamaican heritage exploring the politics of ecology in England. She is interested in art as a method of understanding nature and practicing more equitable and flourishing worlds. She has a particular focus on the senses and is currently researching for her PhD, "Touch as method for critical ecological stewardship in England" at Goldsmiths University of London.
Her work takes the form of tactile objects, sensory installations, hand-made moving images, audio experiments and publications. She runs Ground Provisions, a ‘schooled-by-the-forest’ for adults; The Department of Artecology which is an experimental space for interdisciplinary exchange in the conservation sector; is a Volunteer Ranger for London National Park City and a member of the All The Elements network championing inclusivity in the outdoors.
