In a time of borders being strengthened and unions being separated, Sky Above The Scene aims to focus attention on and increase appreciation of what unites us - our coexistence under one, borderless sky. While this may be a seemingly obvious fact, it’s perhaps only when space and time are provided to meditate on this fact, that it has the chance to change how people actually perceive the world. Sky Above the Scene aims to celebrate diversity, calling into question our perceptions of other cultures and challenging the notion of them being far removed and ‘foreign’, while making us think about our own position in the world, and how we would like our own communities to be perceived.

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The installation is a large scale video installation displaying an indoor sky created from globally source footage. Audiences can view the overall sky patchwork but also engage further through headphones to listen to the scenes taking place beneath each section of sky. The various scenes are different cultural events captured from around the world but with the focus on the sky as the common denominator, not dismissing the diversity but celebrating that it all happens on the same shared planet.

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