Salt Water Sea Shanties
A collaborative performative event held at The Barbican
https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2019/event/constellations
Salt water is a natural WiFi blocking technology. Through the collective singing of a sea-shanty, we invited the lakes of The Barbican to turn saline, thereby interfering with the centre’s multiple tracking technologies
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the shanty was sung in the presence of a vessel of sea water collected in Margate and transported via train to London