8. Crossing Over - Voice Recording - Hebrew by Emily Peasgood

Crossing Over(2016) is a live performance and surround sound installation for community choir, 302 recorded voices, mobile telephones and ocean drums. Crossing Over was commissioned by Turner Contemporary to mark the anniversary of the mass murder of 133 enslaved Africans on the slave ship Zong in 1782, depicted in JMW Turner's The Slave Ship (1840). It premiered during John Akomfrah’s Vertigo Sea installation and seeks to draw parallels between Turner’s The Slave Ship, Akomfrah’s exploration of the sea as a vehicle for migration, and the current refugee crisis. Crossing Over asks: ‘What does ‘home’ mean to you?’ For more information visit: emilypeasgood.com/crossing-over-2016/