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Longplayer’s permanent home is in Trinity Buoy Wharf in London. There are also public listening posts around the world, and a continuous online audio stream.

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News

Longplayer Listening Post at Arts Festival Watou 2024

Longplayer’s installation at the Arts Festival Watou 2024 – Landscape of the Imagination – is now open to the public to visit in Poperinge, Belgium until 1st September, throughout which time you can listen to Longplayer resonating through the singing bowl and throughout this unique space. We are excited to be part of this brilliant…

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A very Long Afternoon with Ansuman Biswas (9th June, 9-5)

On Sunday 9th June, Longplayer invited you to spend a Long Afternoon with Ansuman Biswas at London’s only lighthouse. This special event took the form of a particularly long afternoon, with Ansuman offering a durational performance from 9am-5pm.  ‘Escaping the 9 to 5 is a work of imagination. It’s hard to see what’s there until…

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Long Afternoon with Iain Sinclair, Sunday 28th April

Our April Long Afternoon in the lighthouse featured a talk with Iain Sinclair. The lighthouse was open to visitors, with a young persons activity table, from 1:30-3pm, and Iain Sinclair’s talk, ‘Gifts of the River Returning’ took place at 3:30pm. Iain’s talk reflected on the legacies of work undertaken in the area, and his nocturnal…

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Letters

Since the spring of 2013, Artangel and the Longplayer Trust have been inviting thinkers and writers from a wide variety of disciplines to engage in a chain of written correspondence on the subject of long-term thinking.

Read the Longplayer Letters