Title. Where Once There Was

Description. A performance installation by Katja Hilevaara and Emily Orley. Sound by Diane Le Prevost, Maryjane Orley and Martin Purvis.

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Inspired by one of David Falla’s many work journals, we will build a temporary structure to honour a disappeared building and family business. In time to the rhythm of his words, we will pay homage to the changing face of the Guernsey growing industry and the work that took place on the Northbrook site from 1955 until Falla’s death in 2013. For our performance, we will mark out where the central aisle of one of the vinery greenhouses used to be accompanied by the sound of Diane Le Prevost reading her father’s journal entries from 1955.

Where a corridor of activity under glass once existed, there is now a section of empty field. But we would like to remember and celebrate the place where once workers bustled up and down, sowing, watering, spraying, fertilising, weeding and thinning-out. Where small acts of patience and careful attention happened day after day and year after year. We will memorialise those acts of daily maintenance of which there are now no trace.