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LINKED – an audio trail
LINKED is Graeme Miller’s seminal radio installation/sound walk about the M11 installed on lampposts across 3 miles of East London.
Saturday 27 September
11am – 5pm
Pick-up point for radio receiver, headphones & map:
Wanstead Library
Spratt Hall Rd
London E11 2RQ
FREE
For ages 12+
LINKED is a radio installation/sound walk by Graeme Miller installed on lampposts across 3 miles of East London, a response to the creation of the M11 Link Road in the 1990s which involved the demolition of over 400 homes.
LINKED has endured as perhaps the largest sonic installation and social sculpture in London for 20 years. Commissioned by the Museum of London and launched in 2003, its radio transmitters have broadcast over a million times the voices of 60+ people who lived or worked in the area impacted by the road.
Along a route between Hackney Marshes and Redbridge Roundabout (adjacent to the Link Rd) analogue radio transmitters reveal the stories of families, road protestors, railway-workers, teachers, disco-goers, and artists from the substantial community living in houses destroyed by the road including Cornelia Parker, John Smith, Christine Binnie and Ian Bourn. Together the assembly of voices evokes a fascinating and moving cross-section of ordinary East London life.
To experience this work, you can borrow a small radio receiver, headphones & map from our base at Wanstead Library any time between 11am and 5pm.
Please note that this is not a led sound walk, but one that you can do at your own pace.
The full route is 3 miles long and can take several hours to complete on foot, by wheelchair or by bike. However we can offer guidance on shorter routes according to your preferences, and you are welcome to do one section, stop in one of the many cafes en route, and come and go as you wish.
To discuss any access requirements in advance, please feel very welcome to get in touch with producer Nikki Tomlinson, nikkijtom@gmail.com.
Credits:
LINKED was commissioned by Museum of London and launched in 2003, produced by at Artsadmin. Generously supported by Arts Council England, Heritage Lottery Fund, London Boroughs Grants Committee part of the Association of London Government, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the London Boroughs of Redbridge and Waltham Forest. The restoration of LINKED (2022 – 2024) was supported by Arts Council England.