Moments of Grace, (2020-2026, In Progress)
Sound and light installation for Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Moments of Grace is a sound and light installation to be permanently installed at St Thomas' Hospital in central London.
Nurses and midwives are with us at every hour of the day and night, even when our loved ones are not allowed to come near. There is objective time, and life literally hangs upon these minutes. But there is also subjective time, the kind you wear beneath your fob watch, close to the pulse. This second kind of time is slippery, especially during a crisis. It's like music - it speeds up, it slows down. Occasionally time seems to disappear, until the eventual point when it really does go missing, never to return. Nurses know all about time, and they help us to spend it well.
Moments of Grace will distil 24-hour presence into a 24-7 interactive sound and light composition, starting with your time of listening. It will be installed in physical space at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, in 2026.
Visit the proof of concept website here.
Oral historian and artist: Laura Mitchison
Sound artist and composer: Nicole Robson
Light artist: Peter Hudson
Creative producer: Joanna Penso
Software developer: Henry Betts
Architect: Hayatsu
Curator: Marie-France Kittler