Terrain: The Earth Beneath My FeetPortico Quartet Ensemble with Hannah Collins.

Terrain: The Earth Beneath My Feet

Portico Quartet Ensemble with Hannah Collins

Thu 29 September 2022, Barbican Hall, 8pm

Tickets £20 – 35 plus booking fee

Mercury Prize nominated Portico Quartet return to the Barbican’s music programme in September with an extended line-up, presenting their new audio-visual work Terrain: The Earth Beneath My Feet in collaboration with Turner Prize nominated artist Hannah Collins. The performance sees Collins’s sensitive, mesmerising images of Las Campanas Observatory in the Atacama Desert in Chile find a gently resonant dialogue with the Quartet’s 2021 album Terrain, one of the most complex and beautiful pieces the band have composed. The music will be presented here as a counterpoint to the images, with the composition phasing between expansive moments of calm and a subtle dissonance that perfectly illuminate the visuals.

Based in London, Portico Quartet, have defied categorisation over the course of six studio albums, from their 2007 Mercury Music Prize nominated breakthrough Knee-Deep in the North Sea through to the longform minimalism and ambience of Terrain in 2021. The Portico Quartet Ensemble features an expanded and reconfigured line-up of Duncan Bellamy (drums / sampler), Jack Wyllie(saxophone / piano), Simmy Singh (violin), Joy Becker (violin), Laura Senior (violin), Rachel Shakespeare (cello), Taz Modi(keyboards / bass) and Keir Vine (hang / piano).

Hannah Collins has received many awards and was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1993. Her body of work includes photographs, films, written texts and books, embedded in historical and social frameworks with a wide range of subjects and geographical locations. Most recently she curated the exhibition We Will Walk - Art and Resistance in the American South at Turner Contemporary in Margate UK in 2020.

Produced by the Barbican 

On sale to Barbican patrons and members on Wed 29 June 2022 

On general sale on Fri 1 July 2022