Songs for the Storm to Come

Songs for the Storm to Come is an immersive sound and multi-screen installation by award winning, internationally renowned Greek/British artist, Mikhail Karikis. Powerfully evocative and emotive, the work and soundscape composed by Karikis and developed with a local choir, focuses on the way humans relate to, and interact with, the environment and the role communal sound making plays in expressing this relationship.

Continuing his practice of collaborating with communities, Karikis worked with members of Manchester based SHE cooperative choir for women and non-binary people. In Songs for the Storm to Come, the participants observe maps sourced from climate modelling data showing Britain’s transformed geography for 2050, as a result of rising sea water. They reflect on the radical social and political changes required, and call for the power to bring us together and motivate us to form communities in the face of such changes.