Beacons of Love
Please note: This event took place in Feb 2021
This Valentine’s Day, Action Hero are inviting 150 people to send themselves or a loved one a free digital audio artwork which will play 24 hours of love songs, gathered from across Europe and transmitted directly to a location of your choice in the UK.
On 14th February, Action Hero are bringing their international audio project Oh Europa directly to you, via the free Oh Europa app. Since 2018, they have been travelling in their van recording love songs, sung by ordinary people across Europe. It’s an archive of over 1000 songs in 46 different languages, sung by people aged 1 to 100.
You can listen to the songs on your daily exercise route, in your garden or even on your sofa via a location-specific audio hotspot which will broadcast voices singing with sentiments of love, heartbreak and longing. Your location, your choice!
When you sign up, Action Hero will send you an email containing everything you need to know about joining in on Valentine’s Day. It will include a link to a form to fill in with instructions on how to register your location. Your personal audio hotspot will be activated to begin its broadcast on Valentine’s Day, and will beam love songs directly to you for one day only.
‘Beacons of Love’ is part a collection of works called Oh Europa which includes the 8 hour long performance RadiOh Europa and the micro-installation postcards from the edge. Oh Europa was co-produced with Farnham Maltings, co-commissioned by Transform, Matchbox, Farnham Maltings. Supported by Watershed and the Pervasive Media Studio.