Tony Sinden: Ancestral Voices (1993)

Tony Sinden has been active in making film and video installations for exhibition in the cinema, gallery and open spaces for over three decades. Sinden began working with film, sound and expanded cinema in 1966 and progressed to making major installations for gallery spaces such as Arnolfini, the Hayward Gallery and the Serpentine during the 1970s.

A site-specific video commissioned by Picture This for the crypt of St Nicholas Church, Bristol, Ancestral Voices was funded by The Arts Council Live Arts Commission and South West Arts with support from Bristol City Council and University of London.

“Ancestral Voices uses video and sound to create slowly evolving relationship with the location – that is situated next to the River Avon. In the absence of daylight the subterranean medieval architecture of the crypt becomes a focal point of the work – revealed by the camera and cool light of video. The space, the technology, the lone spectator – a vital part of the encounter.”

Tony Sinden.

Exhibition:
17-28 January 1994, St Nicholas Church, Bristol