English Concertina on iPod in Art Project; "The Spirit of Hope".

Christina Hemauer and Roman Keller (http://www.hemauer.ch/ and http://www.romankeller.info) are two of the artists in the exhibition organised by BEX & ARTS 2011.
This exhibition takes place in Park Szilassy in Bex-les-Bains, Switzerland from 12.06.2011 to 25.09.2011.

Christina Hemauer and Roman Keller have for this project researched the background of the Hope family, founders of the estate. In doing so they came across the Wheatstone Ledgers, where Lady Louisa Hope was entered as the buyer of four concertinas between 1853/1855.
Eventually they connected the concertina as a portable instrument to the iPod of today.

Visitors of the exhibition can borrow a headphone with an iPod at the entrance to the exhibition. You can walk through the parc, look at the works of the other artists and listen to the history of Lady Louisa Hope and the English Concertina, but also to the concertina music of that period. And enjoy the magnificent Swiss landscape.