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Artist Curation commissions began in 2018 with Concrete Dreams after our residencies in the roof spaces of Royal Festival Hall
Love Letter to the Buildings was commissioned by University of the Arts London in 2022 – see menu for details
Threshold at the Museum of Youth Culture followed in Autumn 2023
Concrete Dreams 2018 was our first official commission for exhibition design.
Being given access to an archive like that belonging to the Southbank Centre was a complete dream and joy to work with.
Photo© Linda Nylind.
KlangHaus with LYN Atelier designed the Concrete Dreams exhibition. Audiences were given special-guest status and gently guided through a live working venue, simultaneously immersed in some of the key moments and eras through the use of hand written maps, structural plans, working documents and memos, We sourced key pieces from storage and salvaged vintage patch bays, telephone, monitors to create appropriate space for the hidden histories and lost reports, the voices and stories of performers, the stories of staff, builders and architects… all buzzing from re-purposed phones and video monitors, archival media, print and hum and always, from near and far, the music.
The show culminated in a dark, immersive, heart-racing finale, The audience eased on to the Purcell Room Stage to be engulfed by wall-to-wall layers of cinema screens while a live Kathak dancer emerged ghost-like sliding over the architecture, to dance the refurbished auditorium, a final human touch blending seamlessly with the sound and film, tracing out 50 years of contemporary, experimental and ground breaking repertoire.
Finale shots below courtesy of Mr Pete Woodhead.
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