Chris Hunt and Mavernie Cunningham’s film and sound-based installation 'House 1' was selected for inclusion in the Art and Sound Symposium, Leicester de Montfort University, June 23-24th 2017. The selection process was conducted by peer review including Sam Topley, Louise Rossiter, Sam Warren, and Jack Richardson.

House 1 is a collaborative artwork with Mavernie Cunningham that employs relationships between sound, moving image and sculptural object.

The piece consists of sound and moving image pieces that were initially inspired by the durational and aural patterns of Jonathan Harvey’s Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco (1980). The first of these pieces is screened within a sculptural house-object made of ceramic, plywood and thread. The house-object is covered in digital transfer prints that reference urban landscapes and reflective windows; red string seeps from the roof and walls.

Using notions of dwelling, departure, migration and nostalgia, and the beckoning of each of these states to one another, the sculptural form of the house-object is covered with abstracted images, suggesting aspects of dwelling and its disruption. The film and sound piece contained within plays further on these themes. The work is concerned with questions of the ‘way home’, the formation of homestead and its dispersion or disappearance; to dwell and dwelling’s disruption.

This was the second Art and Sound symposium held by Leicester de Montfort University, and was organised by Jack Richardson and Louise Rossiter. The symposium included a presentation of a series of papers, workshops and installations presented by national and international researchers, established artists and prominent academics. The symposium explored a very diverse range of visual and aural practices, theoretical discussion and reflections on the interaction between visual and aural creative processes amongst individual workers and collaborators.