An interactive audio-visual installation developed in community workshops to celebrate the opening of Sunderland’s Northern Spire Bridge.
Commission
Di was commissioned by Sunderland Culture to create an installation to mark the Northern Spire Bridge’s opening on 16th September 2018. Di worked closely with local community groups to develop the piece, Wonderlooper, which consisted of fourteen audio-visual kaledidoscopes shaped like seaside telescopes. The Wonderloopers were fashioned from left over off-cuts of the bridge’s soaring white cable-pipes.
Experience
On it’s opening day, visitors to the Northern Spire Bridge peered through one of fourteen Wonderloopers which lined the bridge and saw a kaleidoscopic view of the bridge’s cables, mixed with fragments of visitors, clouds and skyline. Inside each Wonderlooper, participants could hear aeolian sounds of the wind vibrating the bridge’s cables mixed with spoken-word performances of community members exploring their hopes, fears and dreams for Sunderland.
Tour
2018 Northern Spire Bridge, Sunderland
Partners
Sunderland Culture
Fablab Sunderland
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CREDITS
Di Mainstone
Suzy O’Hara
Architects of Rosslyn
