CLOUDSCAPES is an intimate installation combining clouds and script, in an outdoor auditorium — turning the Castlefield Viaduct into a cloud-gazing area.
Audiences are encouraged to look up and contemplate the mutability of clouds, as well as the mutability of humanity, guided by the soothing voice of performer and creator Lorna Rees.
Audiences lie back on giant beanbags for the 25-minute show, while Rees talks to them, through headphones, about cloud formation, interspersed with stories of her own relationship with the troposphere and of the journey of a lifetime with her father.
Cloudscapes is a pre-recorded piece of sound art experienced via headphones. The piece can be enjoyed by up to 40 people at a time. Cloudscapes is a very personal, human-scale work about clouds, with a focus on the role of clouds in climate change.