Half Life
February 27th, 2007
In 2005 I raved a lot about The Storr, brought to life by environmental arts organisation nva. It was certainly one of the most remarkable things I’ve seen, and it also helped provide an excuse to visit (for the first time) the islands off the west coast of Scotland (Skye, in this case).
I have just discovered that nva will stage their next major event – Half Life – in Mid Argyll (not a million miles from Oban).
Kilmartin and North Knapdale are home to an unbelievable concentration of standing stones, burial cairns, henges, duns, mills and earlier Neolithic cup and ring marked rocks. With the Corrievreckan, the third largest whirlpool in the world, guarding the entrance to Crinan Moss and Dunadd the earliest seat of the Scottish Kings, it carries an importance that spans 5,000 years of human development.
The production has two dynamic elements. An audience of up to 10,000 will be invited to freely explore a specifically selected range of iconic locations throughout the day, using a specially designed guide. By night, they will be transported to a forest for an outdoor production, above the ancient fort of Dunadd, the birthplace of Scotland. Here they will enter a vast set constructed out of thousands of cut logs spreading across the recently deforested landscape.
If that doesn’t sound almighty, I don’t know what does.
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