The Mercury Prize-winning songwriter will spend four weeks creating her ninth album in front of a live audience at Somerset House.
The Recording in Progress project will be staged in a box behind one-way mirrored glass, and will involve Harvey’s long-time collaborators Flood and John Parish.
She said: ‘I want Recording in Progress to operate as if we’re an exhibition in a gallery. I hope visitors will be able to experience the flow and energy of the recording process.’
The project is backed by art-commissioning organisation Artangel. James Lingwood and Michael Morris, the initiative’s directors, said in a statement: ‘The working process of a project has always been as important to us as its public presentation and here both can be fully explored and revealed at the same time.’
Recording in Progress will take place from 16 January to 14 February.
The new album will be the songwriter's first since 2011's Mercury Prize-winning Let England Shake.
Harvey will also produce a book of poetry later this year.
The Recording in Progress project will be staged in a box behind one-way mirrored glass, and will involve Harvey’s long-time collaborators Flood and John Parish.
She said: ‘I want Recording in Progress to operate as if we’re an exhibition in a gallery. I hope visitors will be able to experience the flow and energy of the recording process.’
The project is backed by art-commissioning organisation Artangel. James Lingwood and Michael Morris, the initiative’s directors, said in a statement: ‘The working process of a project has always been as important to us as its public presentation and here both can be fully explored and revealed at the same time.’
Recording in Progress will take place from 16 January to 14 February.
The new album will be the songwriter's first since 2011's Mercury Prize-winning Let England Shake.
Harvey will also produce a book of poetry later this year.
