Bells of Shoreditch
Shoreditch Church
London, August 2007

As part of Shoreditch Festival 2007, I invited twenty local women aged from 13 to 60 years to join me in Shoreditch Church to create a durational performance involving flowery dresses suspended on helium balloons. The women, from many different backgrounds, each continuously sang a lullaby from their childhood whilst cutting flowers from the dresses leaving garlands strewn on the floor. The remaining lacy forms, released from their earthly flowers, gently floated off the ground and finally ascended to the ceiling. The drone of tuned harmonicas, played by huge weather balloons, harmonised with the voices whilst I played the interior church bell to mark time over the 6 hours

This work became part of a series collectively called Long Time Passing including MASS in Iraq, Despir (Undress) Lisbon, Piel Muerta (Dead Skin) in Cistella, Spain, Undress in Staglinec, Croatia, part of a performance event organised by the artist Vlasta Delimar, Bloom in Edinburgh Botanic Gardens and Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Brussels.

http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20121205050110/http://www.annebean.net/past-projects/2001-2010/55

http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20121205050126/http://www.annebean.net/past-projects/2001-2010/56

http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20121205050201/http://www.annebean.net/past-projects/2001-2010/50

video Long Time Passing

REDRESS

Long Time Passing is on vimeo but is very poor quality—would

uploading the copy in this folder instead of the other help?