During lockdown, Gina Fierlafijn Reddie came across a photograph on the Living Memory Association Facebook page of a large group of Madelvic Wire Works employees - all male - taken at a formal dinner event in 1965. The photo had a cinematographic quality which reminded her of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. Gina reused photographs she took a few years of the derelict car factory, as well as video of a mixed media work entitled ‘The Works’ she created in 2019. This video uses the new soundscape ‘Husk’ created by musician/composer Harry Bongo whom she has collaborated with on numerous occasions. The video evokes the eeriness this derelict building represents, grasping the forgotten sounds of workers’ conversations and the drafts blowing through the broken windows and doors, now all boarded up. The Madelvic Factory is on the ‘at risk register’ of Buildings in Scotland, and a ‘Listed’ building on the national register. Gina Fierlafijn Reddie https://giraf87.blogspot.com/ ginacarla87@gmail.com Video reference: Down to the Wire (2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYr9eUtrW0s&t=42s&ab_channel=GinaFierlafijnReddie Music: 'Husk' - Harry Bongo, 2020 https://harrybongo.sunnyleith.co.uk/ Email harry.docherty@gmail.com Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/harrybongomusic/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/MrHarryBongo Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mrharrybongo For Art in Granton: artingranton@grantonhub.com
During lockdown, Gina Fierlafijn Reddie came across a photograph on the Living Memory Association Facebook page of a large group of Madelvic Wire Works employees - all male - taken at a formal dinner event in 1965. The photo had a cinematographic quality which reminded her of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. Gina reused photographs she took a few years of the derelict car factory, as well as video of a mixed media work entitled ‘The Works’ she created in 2019. This video uses the new soundscape ‘Husk’ created by musician/composer Harry Bongo whom she has collaborated with on numerous occasions. The video evokes the eeriness this derelict building represents, grasping the forgotten sounds of workers’ conversations and the drafts blowing through the broken windows and doors, now all boarded up. The Madelvic Factory is on the ‘at risk register’ of Buildings in Scotland, and a ‘Listed’ building on the national register. Gina Fierlafijn Reddie https://giraf87.blogspot.com/ ginacarla87@gmail.com Video reference: Down to the Wire (2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYr9eUtrW0s&t=42s&ab_channel=GinaFierlafijnReddie Music: 'Husk' - Harry Bongo, 2020 https://harrybongo.sunnyleith.co.uk/ Email harry.docherty@gmail.com Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/harrybongomusic/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/MrHarryBongo Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mrharrybongo For Art in Granton: artingranton@grantonhub.com
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