STONEHENGE 3019: a project Q & A with Sleepdogs

In 2019, Ginkgo Projects worked with Bristol based artists Sleepdogs on a joint project with English Heritage and the Army Welfare Service (AWS) as part of the Heritage Lottery funded Shout Out Loud initiative. Shout Out Loud gives young people a voice in retelling stories and representing ideas of the past: in this case, Stonehenge. This was part of the Kings Gate Public Art programme being delivered by Ginkgo on behalf of Bloor Homes. 

Ginkgo engaged artists Sleepdogs and opened up the brief to be reshaped by Sleepdogs to suit their varied practice which includes theatre, film, digital audio and more.

Through Shout Out Loud, Sleepdogs worked with young people from a military background, some of whom were moving from MOD accommodation to Amesbury, and many of whom had never been to Stonehenge before. The result of the collaboration – STONEHENGE 3019 – is a 15 minute film that constructs a future vision of the stones that looks back in time to its various pasts – real and constructed.

We spoke with Sleepdogs’ Tanuja Amarasuriya and Timothy X Atack to find out more about the commission and how they brought a 3,000 year history of one of the world’s most mysterious monuments to life. Read the full interview on the Projects page here.