photo by: Daniel Jardine

Sorrel Muggridge and Laura Nanni (Norwich, UK and Toronto, Canada)
2360 MILES TRAVELLED HAND TO HEART

An attempt to erode the distance between Riga, London and Newcastle, one mile at a time.

As our sense of the scale of the world has shrunk, 2360 MILES explores how to make the enormity of global distances something we can physically comprehend. Sorrel and Laura will represent the 2360 miles between the three cities with a scaled length of rope. They invite you to help in their attempt to erode this scaled distance by walking the streets of each city, guided by knowledge of the borders, water, rises and falls found in distance between Riga, London and Newcastle.

Sorrel Muggridge and Laura Nanni have been collaborating long-distance, usually with an ocean between them, for over four years. Individually, their practices have responded to their preoccupations with human geography and site specificity. Collaboratively, their works embrace the unusual and inspiring consequences of the distance between them. They create site-specific artworks that articulate the value in wandering and being curious, and investigating how people understand and connect with their surroundings.

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