Location: Sovereign Centre, Weston-super-Mare
National Landscape: Mendip Hills National Landscape
Date: 14 July 2025
End date: 20 July 2025
'View In View Out' (VIVO) is a unique, immersive 360 soundscape presented in Weston-super-Mare, this July as part of a national season of art in National Landscapes.
Inspired by collaborative workshops with young people and community groups - held in the town and the Mendip Hills National Landscape - co-authors Gwyneth Herbert, Jason Singh and Chris Howard, with producers’ Sound UK and Super Culture, have created a new work, weaving participants’ responses into the sounds of Mendip wildlife, trees, plants and cave acoustics.
VIVO Installation: An empty shop will be transformed into a unique, 360 immersive soundscape; exploring the landscape, plants, people and wildlife of the Mendip Hills and Weston-super-Mare. The audio will track through layers of time, soil, stone and roots to hear the ancestors of the caves, the dying song of the ash trees, the birds of the plateau. Hear the song of the ghost of Charterhouse, the tales of a Mendip storyteller, and the voices of children from Weston.