Miranda Whall: Soil Voices

I will be continuing to develop my ongoing and evolving drawing performance When Earth Speaks and other related projects and the ongoing Soil Voices project

Soil Voices will be a triptych of durational performances in which I will again be representing the high-resolution soil sensor technology data beyond traditional statistics, so that the data might have a wider meaning and greater impact.

I will be responding to the scientific research project by literally immersing my body into the landscape in order to embody and give voice to the soil. For the first of the three performances I will be laying in a pre-prepared self-dug 2ft ditch on the plateau managed by Pwllpeiran Upland Research Centre, known as the Ffridd (the upland fringe) at 600m approx for 24 hours. On the hour, every hour I will attempt to vocalise the live and continuous numerical data stream from one of the recently installed sensor networks embedded in the ground around where I lay. I will receive the data emitted from the multiple sensors via a custom built ‘black box’. The data stream will communicate the subtly fluctuating soil moisture and soil temperature readings at regular intervals over a 24 hour period, the performance will be live streamed continuously over 24 hours.