Sax Impey Participating in The Rime of The Ancient Mariner Big Read

Anima Mundi are delighted to announce Sax Impey’s participation in The Rime of The Ancient Mariner Big Read, where Coleridge’s classic will be transformed in to a powerful online fable for the 21st Century. This milestone event will feature 40 days of broadcasts by renowned voices and selected works by international artists culminating in one final symphonic piece. The event was kicked off on Saturday 18th April 2020 with a reading by Jeremy Irons accompanied by imagery from the artist Glen Brown. Impey will feature on day 18m of the project. The Big Read will be available in its entirety as an audio/ visual experience on 28th May.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a founding fable of our modern age. We are the wedding guests, and the albatross around the Mariner's neck is an emblem of human despair and our abuse of the natural world. Yet in its beautiful terror there lies a wondrous solution – that we might wake up and find ourselves saved. Art knows no boundaries.  The Ancient Mariner Big Read is an inclusive, immersive work of audio and visual art from the 21st century that reflects the sweeping majesty and abiding influence of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s 18th century epic poem.

First published in 1798 - we use Coleridge's revised version of 1817 - but still vitally relevant today, it is no coincidence, perhaps, that this poem is the first great work of English literature to speak to isolation and loneliness - and the possibility of redemption if we mend our ways. Three years in the making, drawing on the talents of actors, artists, performers, poets, and writers, The Ancient Mariner Big Read is a brand-new digital work of art in its own right - a wild and tempestuous voyage into the unknown.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Big Read is curated by Philip Hoare, Angela Cockayne and Sarah Chapman. Commissioned by: The Arts Institute, University of Plymouth and supported by: The Marine Institute, University of Plymouth; The Box, Plymouth; dBs Pro, The Edge, Andrew Brownsword Gallery, University of Bath; John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton; Arts Council England.

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