Meadows of Farnham Enclosures
Connolly, Stephen and Armstrong, James (2022) Meadows of Farnham Enclosures. In: Sonic Cartography, 29-30 October 2022, University of Kent, Chatham, Kent, UK. (Unpublished)
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Mapping Enclosures is a moving image and sound artefact exploring the history of land tenure of meadows from the 17th century to the present in the vicinity of the small town of Farnham, Surrey. Using diverse visual sources – 17th century estate maps and contemporary drone footage - the work explores the palimpsest of representations of space and social relationships that shape this material environment. It aims to recover the traces of the remaking and dispossession of the natural resources of Surrey from farmers to property ownership. This project is a collaboration between researchers at the UCA Farnham and the Museum of Farnham.
The sonic element of the project will approach the site and space through field recordings and a creative reworking of the aural processes and cycles that comprise the labour and material processes of agricultural production on the land. These sites of ecological conservation – a chain of natural meadows adjacent to the River Wey near Farnham - are re-framed by the project as sites of historic human sustenance and economic relationships. An aspect of the dispossession of land is re-acted in the form of surveying in the work.
Within the acoustic area, there are topic links with the work of Barry Truax (albeit the creative processes and project aims are quite different) (Truax, 2022). This work continues the practice of Spatial Cinema of the PI (Connolly 2020) and audio design work of James Edward Armstrong (2018).
The presentation of this work in progress will feature audio-visual clips and examples of the media as well as an exploration of the project context – this is a UCA Knowledge Exchange funded project.
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