For the piece, Karikis asked the Snowdown Colliery Male Voice Choir to vocalise the industrial sounds of
a former coalmine based on their memories.
Not exact matches
The
former of these works was commissioned by the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen — a gallery set in one of Germany's
coalmining regions — and appears as a huge mound of black coal, interspersed with red diodes, which is encircled by another part of the commission — Time Train to the Holocaust (2008).
Featuring members of the Snowdown Colliery Male Voice Choir, the work memorialises a Kentish
coalmine through the
former miners» vocal embodiment of memory.