folly's touring "V.I.P. Room" comes to Peterborough
Archive | events | 2008
Space4, Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery, Priestgate, Peterborough, PE1 1LF
folly's immersive installation "VIP Room" - commissioned last year from Chinese artists 8gg - is touring to Peterborough this month and next as part of the national "China Now" festival.
This is the fourth venue that the project has toured to, starting at Manchester's Cornerhouse in September and including workshop performances with Urban Screens in Manchester and HTTP in London.
Audiences in Peterborough will experience V.I.P. Room's array of huge computer keys and projected imagery, where changes in sound and vision are controlled by the actions of visitors. Sitting on each key causes a different sound or video clip to be played on the big screen. The work is fun, visually-sumptuous, hands-on, technological and thought-provoking.
8gg are Beijing-based husband and wife team Fu Yu and Jiang Haiqing, and the artists were commissioned especially by folly for this project and brought to the UK from China to see it come to fruition.
VIP Room was part of the Outside the Box exhibition at Manchester's Cornerhouse last Autumn, and formed the Manchester-based element of folly's VELOCITY festival of digital culture that took place in and around the Morecambe Bay area last October.
ADMISSION:
Tuesday - Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 12pm - 4pm
Limited Disabled Access.
VIP Room is a folly touring project supported by Arts Council England and the Arts Council Lottery Fund
Image: VIP Room by 8gg, credit David Williams
10th May to 22nd June 2008
VIP Room by 8gg
Space4, Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery, Priestgate, Peterborough, PE1 1LF
folly's immersive installation "VIP Room" - commissioned last year from Chinese artists 8gg - is touring to Peterborough this month and next as part of the national "China Now" festival.This is the fourth venue that the project has toured to, starting at Manchester's Cornerhouse in September and including workshop performances with Urban Screens in Manchester and HTTP in London.
Audiences in Peterborough will experience V.I.P. Room's array of huge computer keys and projected imagery, where changes in sound and vision are controlled by the actions of visitors. Sitting on each key causes a different sound or video clip to be played on the big screen. The work is fun, visually-sumptuous, hands-on, technological and thought-provoking.
8gg are Beijing-based husband and wife team Fu Yu and Jiang Haiqing, and the artists were commissioned especially by folly for this project and brought to the UK from China to see it come to fruition.
VIP Room was part of the Outside the Box exhibition at Manchester's Cornerhouse last Autumn, and formed the Manchester-based element of folly's VELOCITY festival of digital culture that took place in and around the Morecambe Bay area last October.
ADMISSION:
Tuesday - Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 12pm - 4pm
Limited Disabled Access.
VIP Room is a folly touring project supported by Arts Council England and the Arts Council Lottery Fund
Image: VIP Room by 8gg, credit David Williams
