Step into an immersive sculptural sound world as artist Helen Dewhurst invites a small audience into Fabrica for an intimate live performance and discussion. Working with her spatial sound composition Songs of Borderlands, Helen will shape sound in the gallery space, supported by musician Jack Kingslake, creating three-dimensional sonic forms that surround and immerse the listener. The work responds to the lives lost at sea in small boat crossings - a global crisis in which many die without trace, ceremony, or identity - and acts as a sonic memorial to those who have perished along migration routes.

Visitors are invited to engage with physical sound objects, to experience how sound can be felt as much as heard, and to reflect together on themes of collective grief, shadow and resilience. This performance explores how listening can be experienced through the whole body, opening up the sensory and collective experience of grief. It asks how loss can be held and processed together, with others, in a shared moment.

Following the performance, Helen will lead a discussion circle and Q&A, inviting audiences to reflect on how social listening might activate acts of loving resistance and empathetic trajectories for the most vulnerable in society.

Find out more about Helen's Making Space residency here.