For its exhibition at APT Gallery, sensingsite presented a collective, material and sensory response to Mersea Island, situated off the south coast of Essex. Restricted by the Coronavirus lockdown of 2021-2, virtual online ‘visits’ led to a critical awareness of how they might experience place during their later physical visits.
Mersea Island is a dynamic and changing place where the effects of climate change and sea level rise are already evident. Unruly collective dialogue with changing terrains and currents (audio and visual) was configured in the architectural site of the gallery as physical and ephemeral assemblages with varying powers of affect. Together, the virtual and physical onsite work has been re-created to make this new site work.
