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Joan Kelly

Joan Kelly

(Australia)
Joan Kelly originally trained as a sound engineer and artist who created environmentally based sound installations. She transferred these skills into working on sound teams for film and TV while completing an MA Media Arts, before moving across to a museum based practise where she creates exhibition based mini-documentaries centred around oral histories.
Joan has recently re-ignited her passion for environmental sound to tell stories of time and place in situ and is currently working on a number of location-based story-telling projects which explore acoustic ecology. Watch this space.
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corpse road

Also known as corpse way, coffin route, coffin road, coffin path, churchway path, bier road, burial road, lyke-way or lych-way. “Now is the time of night, That the graves all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide” – Puck in Midsummer Night’s Dream. A path used in medieval times to take the dead from a remote parish to the ‘mother’ church for burial. Coffin rests or wayside crosses lined the route of many where the procession would stop for a while to sing a hymn or say a prayer. There was a strong belief that once a body was taken over a field or fell that route would forever be a public footpath which may explain why so many corpse roads survive today as public footpaths. They are known through the UK.

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