Life In Transition

This multi-channel sound and light based installation draws on an oral history project documenting the lives of young women who arrived from the South Asian subcontinent to live, study and work in West Yorkshire over the last 25 years.

Huddersfield Art Gallery: Sat 14th May  - Sat 11th June 2011

Huddersfield Tolson Museum: Sat 24th Sep - Sun 27th Nov 2011 

Oral history material gathered from many participants by artist Mandeep Samra, is woven together in a contemporary arts-based sound installation. Voices have been selected from the sound archive and then layered and sculpted in real time together with classical instrumental sounds and chants resonating at selected points to create an atmospheric composition.

The physical installation at Huddersfield Art Galley sat in low lighting and consist of eight loudspeakers encircling the listener to experience different voices moving from one speaker to another. Each speaker is connected to coloured lighting which flicker in time with the voices.

At Tolson Museum the loudspeakers encircle both the listener and a collection of artifacts that illuminate life in the subcontinent.