THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS!

YOU will be able to choose to experience the portable version of Colston’s Last Journey anywhere in the world (when we’ve cracked some annoying behaviours…)

When ready, the idea is that you will be able to choose any statue (or indeed any location associated with the trafficking of enslaved Africans) anywhere in the world and experience a variant of Colston’s Last Journey – your phone will ask you ‘do you want to experience the soundscape HERE?’, then roll Colston’s Last Journey out around you.

Circling around you, you will see (on your screen) 9 Ghost Ships (the pulsating coloured blobs). Each of these ships represents a different facet of the Transatlantic Trafficking of Enslaved Africans.

YOU are the purple arrow: you can (1) physically move to where the ships are circling and stay there. They will slowly process past you, then disappear into the distance; or, you can (2) ‘board’ any of the ships, and, by moving slowly in its direction of travel, stay on it to hear everything it has to tell you.

This portable version is being programmed by Phill Phelps.

THIS IS A SOUNDART PROJECT, NOT AN HISTORICAL GUIDE