Oliv­er Beer
Albion Waves

Locat­ed on the ground floor of the Lon­don Mithraeum, Bloomberg SPACE show­cas­es a series of con­tem­po­rary art com­mis­sions respond­ing, and bring­ing fresh per­spec­tives, to the site’s rich archae­o­log­i­cal history.

Lon­don Mithraeum, Bloomberg SPACE lat­est com­mis­sion is Albion Waves by British artist Oliv­er Beer.

Beer’s new instal­la­tion Albion Waves, draws inspi­ra­tion from the 14,000 Roman arte­facts dis­cov­ered on the Bloomberg site, and fea­tures a con­stel­la­tion of 28 sus­pend­ed his­toric British ves­sels. Dat­ing from the sec­ond cen­tu­ry to the present day, each ves­sel varies in colour, form, size, and ori­gin, and con­tains a micro­phone to ampli­fy its acoustic res­o­nance. Trig­gered when motion sen­sors detect the move­ment of vis­i­tors, the instal­la­tion can be played by the view­er, their inter­ac­tions evolv­ing into a unique immer­sive musi­cal experience.