Beyond the Deepening Shadow
Beyond the Deepening Shadow: The Tower Remembers was an artistic installation at the Tower of London in November 2018, to commemorate the centenary of the end of the First World War.
Each evening in the week before Remembrance Day, 10,000 torches were lit in the moat of the tower, after an opening ceremony of a bugle call, minute of silence and reveille.[1] The torches remained lit for several hours while loudspeakers broadcast a soundscape composed by Mira Calix, based on a sonnet written by nurse Mary Borden to a British officer at the Somme.[2] The event was conceived by Tom Piper and directed by .[1]
The installation was similar to Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red, an installation of poppies at the Tower which commemorated the start of the war. That was so popular that crowd control measures were organised to control the large number of spectators.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b c Rupert Christiansen (6 November 2018), "Beyond the Deepening Shadow: the moving story behind the Tower of London's Armistice torches", Daily Telegraph
- ^ Alison Flood (10 Oct 2018), "'Forgotten' female poet of first world war to be honoured at armistice centenary", The Guardian
External links[]
- Beyond the Deepening Shadow: The Tower Remembers – official web site
Coordinates: 51°30′33″N 0°04′31″W / 51.50912°N 0.07528°W
- 2018 in art
- 2018 in London
- British contemporary works of art
- Installation art works
- Monuments and memorials in London
- Tower of London
- World War I memorials in the United Kingdom
- World War I stubs