Writer and musician Harvey and award-winning photographer Seamus Murphy, hatched a collaboration. Seeking inspration, Harvey accompanied Murphy on some of his worldwide reporting trips, joining him in Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Washington DC. While she collects words, Murphy collectes images. Back home, the words become poems, songs, then an album, ‘The Hope Six Demolition Project’, which is recorded in an unprecedented art experiment in Somerset House, London. In a specially constructed room behind one-way glass, the public - all cameras surrendered - are invited to watch the 5-week process as a live sound-sculpture. Murphy exclusively documents the experiment with the same forensic vision and private access as their travels.

By capturing the immediacy of their encounters with the people and places they visited, Murphy shows the humanity at the heart of the work, tracing the sources of the songs, and, ultimately, their special metamorphosis into recorded music and cinema.

The director will be in attendance.