Marking Tidetime

Marking Tidetime is a site-specific audio walk by the Thames in London, featuring intertidal encounters with foreshore inhabitants and changing river ecologies.

This audio performance was devised for Totally Thames Festival 2022, using site-responsive text and field recordings from the foreshore. Audiences are guided on a journey along the Thames path between the Greenwich Reach Swing Bridge and Horseferry Place. The audio features riverside sound recordings and site-responsive, spoken-word text which considers connections between the river Thames’ past and its future at a time of sea level rise and increasing flood risk.

The audio can be listened to here:

This performance was part of a wider artistic research project also called Marking Tidetime. The artistic research focussed on documenting weekly mudlarking walks and encounters along the foreshore with a range of intertidal inhabitants and objects, in a series of voice note recordings. Through spoken-word responses to object-based encounters, the work considered ways of being-with the shifting tide times and ecologies of the Thames river. Acts of walking and moving-with the tides, gave voice to moments of unearthing embodied relations with various artefacts and sedimented deep time.