Bankside's Immersive Arts Festival
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BANKSIDE’S IMMERSIVE ARTS FESTIVAL 18 SEPTEMBER – 18 OCTOBER 2015 @MERGEFESTIVAL VISIT US AT MERGEFESTIVAL.CO.UK #MERGEBANKSIDE MERGE line-up BANKSIDE TRANSFORMED Plan your visit and find out Welcome to Colourful what’s on at Crossings MERGE 2015 MERGE 2015 Adam Frank, Morgan Silk and Office for Crafted Architecture 03 Colourful Crossings Adam Frank, Morgan Silk and Office for Crafted Architecture Now in its fifth year, immersive arts festival MERGE returns to Bankside Various points along 04 The Chamber of Wishes Southwark Street, SE1 (see Bompas & Parr with a programme set to transform the map on page 20 for locations) 05 On Your Wavelength London riverside destination. Marcus Lyall Southwark / London Bridge This year’s diverse line-up includes 06 Time To Be Late Various performers major names and emerging talent from 18 September – 13 December 07 Interplay the UK and international art world. Using 7 days a week 60 Years, 60 Iconic Images the rich heritage and contemporary TV Times culture of Bankside they will stage £ FREE 08 Caravan Theatre Various artists interactive installations, experimental olourful Crossings sees Southwark 09 Chain Reaction theatre and live music; reinventing Street transformed into an outdoor TROPE historic buildings and open spaces. Cgallery with a series of on-street 10 Nursery Original Series Make a wish in a bioluminescent artworks which will bring pedestrian crossings 28 September – 13 December Various artists to life. These commissions made through the Award winning artist Morgan Silk will be wishing chamber, focus your mind to 12 Food Demonstration Gone Avenue of Art initiative, will take art out of its creating a large-scale anamorphic scene Wrong control a light and sound installation, traditional gallery contexts to transform public using photography. This illusionary interactive Jonathan Peck and Robin Linde enjoy live music on the Riverside Stage, spaces, bringing colour and animation to the artwork, where the road will appear to 13 Radio shows and live events street. Commissioned by Better Bankside and reveal a hidden world beneath and will then Programmed by Resonance take a look at never before seen images part funded by Transport for London. disappear when the viewer moves from the 104.4fm of the biggest stars from the 60s to the vantage point, celebrates the rich history and 14 The Riverside Stage 18 September – 13 December culture of Bankside. Programmed by Roots Events present day, and keep an eye out for a Beneath the railway bridge on the junction blue bunny. of Southwark Street and Redcross Way. New 28 September – 13 December 16 The Song and the Bottle Laithwaite’s and Adam Beattie, MERGE Bankside is curated and York based artist Adam Frank will bring his A neighbourhood isn’t just a physical Brooke Sharkey and guests work ‘Performer’ to the UK. This interactive environment; the architecture of our cities is produced by Illuminate Productions and 17 Tunesday installation encourages participants to perform nothing without the people who live in them. Various musicians at is supported by Tate Modern and Better under a bright spotlight in which a computer We imbue memory, stories and emotions Mondrian London Bankside. controlled audio audience applauds as you in these places and share them with others 18 Rendezvous at Midnight become more active. The installation uses when we relay our day. ‘Crossing Stories’ The Rose Playhouse a real-time audio audience simulation and by Office for Crafted Architecture is an movement sensor to produce an illusion of a invitation to wander the city with your own 19 Happenings 500-member audience applauding just for you. memories and impressions. 02 mergefestival.co.uk 03 BANKSIDE TRANSFORMED BANKSIDE TRANSFORMED The Chamber of Wishes On Your Wavelength Bompas & Parr Marcus Lyall in collaboration with Rob Thomas n Your Wavelength is a mind-powered 88 Borough High Street, Railway Arch, 37 America Street laser and sound installation created SE1 1LL SE1 0NJ Oby Marcus Lyall, the British artist behind award-winning stage visuals for the London Bridge / Borough London Bridge / Southwark Chemical Brothers and Metallica, with a soundtrack by Rob Thomas. Become part of 24 September – 18 October 18 September – 18 October the installation by wearing a headset that uses the latest technology to transmit brain activity Wednesday – Sunday 12 – 7pm Wednesday – Sunday, 12 – 7pm into spontaneously choreographed digital artwork on an architectural scale. Or visit the FREE See mergefestival.co.uk £ £ installation, located in a dark railway arch, and experience the epic light and sound show. A new commission for MERGE 2015, this site-specific artwork will be created from ompas & Parr invite you to make a “Experienced at firsthand, intersecting thought patterns, via an EEG wish in the ‘The Chamber of Wishes’ bioluminescence is a headset. The laser and sound will then amplify B – an immersive interactive remarkably powerful type participants’ brain activities to create a large- installation in which visitors will be able scale immersive light and sound installation. to focus on their hopes and dreams, while of light with a unique ability The installation highlights participants’ minds also experiencing one of the ocean’s great to attract and engage the as tangible objects and generates a unique mysteries up-close and personal. curious. The algae Pyrocystis ‘brain signature’ for each user. By unveiling the lost rich history of is extraordinary in its ability to Marcus has created experimental film springs, wells and grottos in London’s sense movement in water, and and interactive projects for the last 20 years Bankside, and the rare phenomenon of and now works on a range of moving-image bioluminescent sea water, Bompas & Parr to convert this into a dazzling projects. He has collaborated with sound artist aim to facilitate a truly unique merger light display.” Rob Thomas to write the custom software that between art, science, folklore and the – DR PARK translates EEG signals into data to drive the mystery of the natural world. They have real-time audio; and with Alex Anpilogov who enlisted the help of Microbiologist Dr Simon created the visual synthesizer, which translates Park to bring one of the ocean’s great the data into a real-time visual composition, to secrets to light. feed the laser. Bompas & Parr’s work focuses on the interrelationship between performance and “The aim is to reach a focused ‘state setting. They collaborate with specialist of mind’, that can only be achieved technicians, engineers, artists, scientists, through their ability to ‘let go’.” musicians and many other disciplines to create experiential exhibitions and events. 04 mergefestival.co.uk 05 In celebration of TV Times’ 60th anniversary, we are showcasing a selection of exclusive images BLACKFRIARS STORIES from its vast archives. Time To Be Late PHOTOGRAPHY Various performers Interplay Various bus stops on Curated by Illuminate Productions Blackfriars Road for TV Times’ 60th Anniversary ever before seen images of the biggest stars of music from the 60s Southwark Nthrough to the early 80s, including Platform Southwark, James Brown, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, 24 September – 25 September 1 Joan Street, SE1 8DA Muddy Waters, Marlene Dietrich, Kate Bush, The Small Faces, The Beatles, The 8 – 9am, 12.30 – 1.30pm, Southwark / Waterloo 5.30 – 7pm Doors and many more. These photographs show both the hype and excitement that 18 September – 18 October £ FREE occurred around star’s appearances – in unguarded moments, both behind the Wednesday – Sunday, 12 – 7pm scenes and in the spotlight. An exclusive insight into iconic musicians and their FREE eep your eyes peeled when ‘Time £ interaction with audiences and each other. to be Late’ takes to the street. Part K evocative bus journey, part theatrical experience, the public’s daily journey to and from work will come alive through a series of energetic and humourous scenes PHOTOGRAPHY howcasing taking place at bus stops along Blackfriars TV Times’ Road. Performers include the award winning Sincredible Natural Theatre Company who have been 60 Years, 60 access to the making people laugh in nearly 80 countries stars of music, for over 40 years, and Scotty the Blue Bunny Iconic Images entertainment who will be performing his unique cabaret Curated by TV Times and sport over show. six decades including images of Peter “Wouldn’t it be good if extraordinary In and around Blue Fin Building, Sellers, Woody Allen, Liza Minnelli, The things happened when you were late! A 110 Southwark St, SE1 0SU Beatles, Bobby Moore, David Bowie, Cilla time when what is real, becomes unreal. (the home of TV Times) Black, Diana Rigg and many more. Imagine: it’s your Friday morning routine, As the only title to host ITV’s listings, you gather with a group of strangers for a Southwark TV Times had exclusive access to their fleeting moment to wait for your London stars throughout one of the most exciting bus. In transience, with time to kill, suddenly 17 September – 18 October periods of British entertainment, and you find yourself in the midst of something this continued after de-regulation. Both unimaginable - a policeman hands you a Monday – Friday, 10am – 7pm exhibitions demonstrate that since the cup cake whilst in pursuit of a wanted blue launch of TV Times in 1955, it has been at COMMISSIONED BY FREE bunny. Didn’t Alice say, “Imagination is the £ the heart of British television continuing only weapon in the war against reality?” to the present day. Visit whatsontv.co.uk 06 mergefestival.co.uk 07 Booking essential mergefestival.co.ukFor tickets visit THEATRE BANKSIDE TRANSFORMED Caravan Theatre Chain Reaction Programmed by Robin Linde Productions TROPE (Carol MacGillivray and Bruno Mathez) Gold Caravan on the River Walkway outside Tate Modern, SE1 9TG Blackfriars / London Bridge 1 – 18 October Thursday – Sunday, 1 – 7pm WEEK 2 The Alan Key £ FREE – to book a ticket Written by Sammy Kissin.