Burning Pool

Burning Pool is a package that consists of: 250 limited-edition individually hand-painted and silk-screened album covers on recyclable card. Each sleeve has its own unique design and number and contains: • 12” vinyl with 2 x 10 min audio pieces • 1 x dvd with printed image containing “Burning Pool” a 24min film with different soundtrack to the vinyl. • 1 x A4 artwork • 1 x info sheet Burning Pool is a 24min. film, captured over 4 years, of Sheffield as a post-industrial city in transition. A lot of the buildings and landscapes are now gone or radically altered. The project was created as a response to the DIY ethic of the local music scene between 1979-81 that formed the “Do It Thissen” exhibition in Sheffield, 2015 where both artists performed live and created an installation. The enquiry was how to create and examine the function of an analogue product in the digital age. It also created a platform to explore the hauntological notion of “future ghosts” in the study of Sheffield as a post-industrial city in transformation. The film features iconic buildings such as the Hallam Towers, a distinctive landmark and the city’s first million-pound hotel which opened in 1965 and was demolished in as new finance streams reshape the built environment.