Family Day: Soundscapes

Artists Ruby Campion and Yanaëlle Ritter invite you to take up space at our two-day takeover this Family Day!

Activities will take place over the whole building as families are invitied to explore their own collective practice with ideas, prompts and making designed by our lead artists. Find out more about their practice below.

Recommended for ages 5+

See below for more information...

Studio 1

Listen to the sounds in the studio, what feelings, thoughts or emotions do they give you? What do they look, or feel like, can we them draw them without using words and create your own musical notations?

Use our mark-making tools to add to a studio wide installation, feel the vibrations of the sounds in the space and explore the textures and colours that speak to you.

Please note: This is a wet space, we will provide coveralls but we advise wearing messy clothes. Leave any wet materials to dry here before leaving the space.

Materials: Chalk, Charcoal, Food Dyes, Paints, Brushes, Sponges, Sticks, Feathers and more!

Main Foyer (Under the Stairs)

Experiment with the sounds of this hanging installation or add your own mini instrument to the space.

Cinema Foyer - Quiet Space

Explore a selection of found and foraged objects in the space, what do they sound like together, do they sound different when played with a stick or a feather? Work together to create your own symphony or start a band with strangers. Draw your made-up instruments or write instructions and hang up in the space for the next person to try!

Materials: Found objects

This is a designated quiet space, please be respectful of other families in this area.

Gerard Byrne film inside an image – Gallery 1

Use our puppets and torches to create your own film. Use the wearable costumes to become an animal or use the weird and wonderful puppets to tell a story. Use the biophony and geophony of the artwork as a soundtrack for your film – what feelings or thoughts do you get from those noises? How would we interpret them in movement?

The corridor is your rehearsal space, look for movement and dance prompts for ideas!

Materials: Preprepared puppets, costumes and torches.

Collection Library - Quiet Space

Plan your performance - Listen to our playlist for inspiration and map out your film using a storyboard.

This is a designated quiet space, please be respectful of other families in this area.

Materials: Paper, pencils, headphones and playlist (QR Code)

Corridors - Level 1 and 2

Take a moment to create a quick sculpture and display it on one of our plinths or display the works you’ve already made there. Take a photo and tag us!

Materials: Any you’ve brought with you!

Level 2 Corridor

Create your own instrument with our foraged and found materials. Using string and wire to make it wearable, activate it with movements or create an a group-wide sound piece that only works with one another.

When you’re finished you can leave it on display under the stairs, or in our display space on the stairwell or take it home to add to!

Materials: Cardboard, Sticks, Wool, Jars, Lentils, Papers, Fabric, String and more!

Ruby is a multidisciplinary artist whose creative practice explores the use of storytelling to reshape our relationship with the world around us, particularly the natural environment. They engage with objects and artefacts, working to question conventional hierarchies of usefulness, embracing materials subject to change and decay over time, reconnecting with natural cycles and processes of change.

They are a recent graduate from the University of Brighton Fine Art course where their study focused on sculpture, process, and performance; exploring sense of place and meaning through movement with found objects and puppetry work. They have developed and supported workshops centring experimental play and found objects as well as practical techniques in ceramics and painting.

Currently, their practice is moving towards artworks offered as gifts to places, people, and communities as opposed to work intended for conventional gallery spaces.

ruby (@gluemuseum) • Instagram photos and videos

Yanaëlle Ritter is a contemporary dance artist based in Eastbourne. As a choreographer and performer, she often collaborates with musicians and creates dances for specific sites like parks, beaches, or outdoor artworks such as the Dance Diagonal mural at Towner. Teaching dance is at the core of Yanaëlle’s practice. She facilitates creative contemporary dance classes for children, teenagers and adults across London and Sussex, for organisations including Sadler’s Wells, The Place, Trinity Laban and Eastbourne Dance Space. Yanaëlle also co-directs Company Concentric, a circle of collaborators with whom she designs and delivers performances, events and community projects.

Yanaëlle Ritter (Thiran) (@yanaelledanse) • Instagram photos and videos

We will be offering two designated quiet areas for families and groups who would prefer a more relaxed experience. This are indicated above and will be clearly signposted on the day.

We have sensory bags including noise-cancelling headphones and fidgets available to collect from the ground floor foyer to use for your visit.

Extra noise cancelling headphones are available to collect from Studio 1 for the duration of your visit.