In another strand of my work, I collaborate with young people to form documentaries or alternative video portraits. In Radio Nights I continued my relationship with the young people from the Avenues Youth Project in Queens Park, London, following on from a previous Artangel Interaction commission. It investigates the invisible worlds of the listeners and broadcasters of West Londons rich radio culture, from late night call-ins to underground MCs tussling for airwaves, from the pirate innovators of the 1980s to the Grime stars of the future. I took this collaboration further by taking members of the Avenues to participate in the Coniston Water festival, juxtaposing urban and rural cultures, dressing a boat in bling and performing grime in a Tudor barn. While there, the Avenues co-composed a new song The Cumbrian Way with children John Ruskin High School in Coniston. |
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