WORK
I Too, am a Survivor is a 360-degree immersive installation that places audiences inside a twelve-sided room, using projection, sound and text to explore the journeys of objects from the World Cultures collection at World Museum Liverpool. The work was created in collaboration with poet, Sarah Howe.
Through large-scale projection and spatial sound, a selection of artefacts - including Chinese ceramics and objects from across Africa, the Americas, Asia and Oceania - are reinterpreted as carriers of lived experience. Rather than being presented as static displays, they are approached through fragments of voice, image and atmosphere, opening up themes of movement, displacement and belonging.
The installation combines cinematic visuals with a layered soundscape, creating an enclosed environment where multiple perspectives unfold across the space. Text and image move around the room, allowing visitors to piece together meaning through movement and attention rather than a single, fixed narrative.
Developed as part of a wider programme to rethink how collections are experienced, the work sits within the gallery itself, in dialogue with the objects it references. It introduces an alternative way of engaging with museum material - one that centres interpretation, ambiguity and multiple viewpoints.
Now on permanent display, I Too, am a Survivor creates a contained, reflective space within the museum, inviting visitors to spend time with the work and consider how objects hold and carry complex histories across place and time.
I too Am A Survivor
National Museums Liverpool
2021
Produced for National Museums Liverpool
Animation & Creative Design:
Rebecca Smith
Poet:
Sarah Howe
Sound design:
CJ Mirra
Storyboarding:
Meaningful Magic
Technical Partners & Set build:
Adlib
With thanks to all the team at NML
Tide Project
Liverpool John Moores University













