Do you have experience as a migrant to the UK? Would you like to share your story and be part of a travelling art work showing around the UK?

MAS(S) is an acronym taken from the works original title Make A Stand.

MAS(S) represents an uprising of people, voices, protests, and the power of song in the form of a choral mass.

Created by artists Tristan Shorr and Rae Champion (CONCRETE) in collaboration with Scottish artist Lomund Campbell, MAS(S) explores themes of migration, refugees, war and loss through the human voice.

A series of generative sound sculptures turn the audio testimonies of refugees into a multi-channel immersive sound experience, culminating in a voice siren that will call out along the British coastline, allowing audiences to actively walk the siren call together, mapping our borders.

Project overview

The project started in 2022 when the artists worked with Ukrainian artists and their families in the north of Sweden just after the war started. Since then, the artists continued to work with migrants, refugees and asylum seekers back in the UK.

The work focuses on those who have fled their country of origin for the UK due to war, persecution, and socio-economic reasons. So far, the artists have worked with people from Cameroon, Zimbabwe, Baluchistan, Iran, Ukraine and Syria.

All those that contribute to this project will become part of sound work that blends the words and voices the artists have recorded into an immersive sonic experience that culminates in a voice siren.

The work will be presented as a gallery installation and an outside voice siren along a section of the coastline.