Talking Birds is a Coventry-based company of artists engaged in the transformation of spaces - both real and imagined. The landlocked company’s work is created, and experienced by audiences, in many different places, including theatres, cinemas, concert halls, on television, the internet and radio, as well as in unusual sites, whether a seaside town’s seafront promenade, a 14th Century monastery or an underground car-park.

Talking Birds has a peculiar affinity with seaside towns, and despite being based in Britain's most landlocked city, regularly makes work at the coast. Our second home is Scarborough in North Yorkshire where we have made performance and installation works for the beach, Spa complex and an underground car park built on the site of victorian pier builder Eugenius Birch's spectacular Scarborough Aquarium.

Piers and pier building have been a company obsession for some time, and in 1998, Talking Birds made Recent Past, a film with live piano trio which charted an erratic journey from the centre of England to the end of Southend Pier. In 2001, members of the company submitted a planning application for a pier for Coventry, which was unfortunately Blocked.

 "innovative and unusual...akin to taking part in a David Lynch movie"
[The Independent on www.helloland.co.uk]