Step inside an exact replica of an Antarctic hut and be
transported to Deception Island, a tiny caldera in the Antarctic Ocean,
battered by the fiercest seas in the world and shaken by volcanic activity.
Here the rusting remains of industrial whaling and a seabed littered with
whalebones testify to mankind’s greed and brutality - but the island is
also an outpost of scientific exploration, a witness to human attentiveness and
fortitude.
This brand-new poetry installation from Story Machine and
Elizabeth Lewis Williams will summon a place where human endeavour is set in
the context of elemental conflict, a remote frontier where climate and months
of winter darkness impose a kind of perpetual lockdown.
As the ship carrying the author’s father edges through the
basalt cliffs into the calmer waters of Whaler’s Bay, the island’s many voices,
human and non-human, begin to speak.
Prepare to embark on an immersive poetry, sound and film
expedition like nothing you have been on before.
Brought to you by Story Machine.
Cost: £5
Running time: 30 minutes
