Have you seen the vistas from the top of Beckton Alps?

by Richard Lockett

Multimedia artist Richard Lockett will be resident in the AITD space for one week. Over the week the artist will take the Beckton Alps as a place of research and inspiration. A former dry ski slope and buried toxic sludge heap in Beckton, East London, the Beckton Alps are the embodiment of juxtaposition. The artist holds on to the belief that a ‘place’ is where sounds, histories, stories, images, memories, nature and things converge to form (in this case) a heap. To unpick the heap and reveal some structural relations is the ambition of this project. New writing, music and visual art will be produced by the artist during the period of the residency. The chance to become involved in the process will be available through a Sound Walk workshop run during the week.