Songs of Salt was a simple, immersive installation created for the Whitstable Biennale Satellite Programme in July 2010. The piece was inspired by sea shanties; songs performed by men who lived and worked on the sea. It was collectively produced and conceived by Jessica Akerman, Ellie Curtis, Christopher Rainbow and Juliet Sugg. 

The installation was topped off with a live sunset performance by local folk group Dead Horse Morris and the Shipwright Shanty Crew, which drew a large crowd to the Whitstable beach front on the last Saturday of the show. The audio transcript of the performance was later included in the Whitechapel Gallery’s Scrivener’s Cove event in August 2010.

You can listen to some of the material on the Satellite Programme website: http://www.thewhitstablesatellite.com/