Sinuous City, Limbic Cinema

Sinuous City is an immersive experience and video art gallery created by multimedia creative studio Limbic Cinema, poet Vicky Foster, and composer Joe Acheson (Hidden Orchestra).

Kinetic lighting, multi-layered projections, and spatial sound design will combine to create an abstract and at times visceral depiction of a flood. Visuals of cherished personal items and familiar locations are brought to the surface, giving a sense of identity, fragility, resilience, and the passage of time. Vicky Foster’s poetry interweaves the experiences of local people to create a community voice that gives historical context to the narrative. You can read all four poems HERE.

After the six-minute experience audiences will be invited further into the space where a series of visual poems reflect on the dualities of living with water. From past to future, tranquillity to chaos, Hull is a city that has to look both forwards and backward to understand its fluid relationship with water.

Access the Opening Section transcript HERE, and the Ending Section transcript HERE.

Artist Bio

Limbic Cinema is a Bristol-based multimedia creative studio. Their work is award-winning and internationally recognised, working with partners including Glastonbury Festival, Eden Project, Edinburgh Fringe and Vivid Sydney in Australia. In 2021 their work was featured as part of the New Frontier programme at the Sundance Film Festival. Utilising cutting-edge tools and immersive technology to transform spaces and transport audiences. The studio creates mesmerising, meaningful, and memorable encounters that empower people through the use of light, sound and moving image.

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Entry information

Please arrive five minutes before your booked time slot, this is to make sure audiences have time to get in before the projection starts. Due to the nature of this installation, latecomers won’t be admitted. If you are late or miss your booked time slot, you are still welcome to visit Sinuous City by walk-up at another time slot, but you will not be guaranteed entry due to limited capacity.

As you enter, hand sanitiser will be available and a Test & Trace QR code will be on display for check-in. Masks are not mandatory, but we do encourage visitors to wear them as we will be indoors.

Access information

Sinuous City by Limbic Cinema is an immersive experience that takes place inside an old shop unit at 51 Whitefriargate.

There is a limited capacity to view this piece. For guaranteed entry, you should book tickets, but there will be a limited amount of walk-up available for each slot.

Sinuous City will feature a series of projection pieces throughout the space with a show-style projection featuring projection, light, haze and sound, followed by a gallery-style exhibition.

The space is wheelchair accessible. Wheelchair users should make themselves known to volunteers at the entrance to the installation who will ensure they are guided to the best viewing position within the space.

The experience will be highly visual and the soundscape for the experience will feature poetry by Vicky Foster. The poetry will also be represented visually as well as in transcripts of the poems themselves which are available on our website.

Please note: this experience will contain strobing lights, loud music and haze.

For more access details across the event, please visit our FAQs.