Artist and composer Heiner Goebbels describes his mechanised installation ‘Stifter’s Dinge’, made in collaboration with Artangel in 2008, as “a composition for five pianos without pianists, a play with no actors, a performance without performers”. Adalbert Stifter was a 19th-century Austrian landscape writer known for his obsessive descriptions of the natural world, ‘Stifter’s Dinge’ was an invitation for audiences to experience many different landscapes and weather systems intercut with fragments of recorded text from Malcolm X, William S. Burroughs and anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss. Heiner Goebbels joins Michael Morris and James Lingwood to discuss ‘Stifter’s Dinge’, and his later Artangel collaboration ‘Everything that happened and would happen’ which commemorated 100 years since the end of the First World War in 2018 with performances in Manchester, New York and St Petersburg.

HERE IS WHERE WE MEET is a sequence of conversations conducted by James Lingwood and Michael Morris, co-directors of Artangel from 1991 until 2023.

The theme music for the series is written and performed by PJ Harvey.