Wapping: Audio

A life raft floating in a canal. A priest practicing for a funeral service. An abandoned shopping centre. Searching for lost love in the new heart of London.

Walk with me...

Wapping:audio is a unique 40-minute site-specific digital audio walk. An intriguing mix of performance and sightseeing the audio tour guides solo walkers through the old London docks district of Wapping. Guided by a search for lost love it is a breathtaking collision of time and space providing the walker with a new perspective on this undiscovered part of the city. All you need to take part is a portable audio player and headphones.

Wapping:audio has been created by a group of international theatre makers, with an interest in walking through cities and the stories areas invite by their history, location and environment. The artists alternated between uncovering the existing history of this part of the docklands and creating their own through writing stories, staging a wake, talking to the people who live in the area and guiding tourists from the records of their walks.

An immersive audio walk of Wapping in the London Docklands. Part fiction, part fact.

London, UK 2005-present

• http://www.wappingaudio.org