Welcome to WOOD.LAND. sound collaboration with DJ Raphael Mann

Instrumental and spoken word tracks created using human and natural sounds from the urban woods.

AUDIO: When Great Trees Fall, wood walk mix based on the Maya Angelou poem. Collaboration with Raphael Mann x Debi Tinsley (www.debitinsley.com).

AUDIO: Mixes from field recordings of the urban woods, using the natural percussions of nature and the city as musical accents.

VIDEO: POLITUS (Refined) : What we choose to remember

Tyler Moorehead, 2019. Running time 11:09

Politus is a performative exploration of respectability, aspiration and class, through domestic artefact.

The artist uses items to hand to reflect on the symbols of refinement cherished by her mother. In the process of memorialising one symbol of respectability, she defiles another.

Politus was installed at Tate Modern ‘Art on Air’ as a response to Kara Walker’s Fons Americanus in the adjacent Turbine Hall. The piece takes its name from Walker’s insight ‘what we choose to remember’.

The silent piece uses the shadow of cut crystal glasses as a symbol to explore patterns of achievement, acceptability and assimilation among the black middle classes.

Seeking to acknowledge her elders, whilst denying the power of these cultural expectations over her own life, the artist memorialises the image of crystal glasses on a fine linen tablecloth as a symbol of belonging.