PLEASE NOTE: EXHIBITION TIMES HAVE CHANGED FROM THAT LISTED
EVENT RUNS: 2PM to 9PM

Shadow Puppet Performance 7.3 – 8
Free Admission

TAKTAL invites the people of Wandsworth to visit and engage with the experimental art space Testbed1 as part of the Wandsworth Arts Festival 2011.. The ex dairy warehouse complex is a stunning sequence of spaces beside Ransomes Dockwhich is largely unknown. Through the construction of a series of large scale interactive installations we propose to transform Testbed1 into a space of visual splendor. A combination of Architecture and Visual Arts each installation will play with and manipulate with the spatial qualities within the Testbed1 complex enticing users to engage with the space and have fun. The exhibition will be a collaboration between ex-students from the Bartlett School of Architecture, Westminster School of Architecture and the Glasgow School of Art.

The doodle bar will be open in the courtyard all day so come down and enjoy the view by the Dock.

T E S T B E D M A I N S P A C E

RELAY – Architectural Light Installation
Kite and Laslett – Westminister School of Architecture
http://www.kiteandlaslett.com/
http://vimeo.com/17562263

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C O U R T Y A R D

TWO WAY – Interactive Projection
Tetsuro Nagata – Bartlett School of Architecture
http://tetsuronagata.co.uk/pitzhanger.html

I HAVE THESE TWO FACES – Interactive Installation
David Di Duca – Bartlett School of Architecture
http://vimeo.com/13348533
http://vimeo.com/22594024

NECKS OF THE WOODS – Musical Shadow Puppet Performance 7.30pm – 8pm
Puppets and Visuals by PLANFLASHTIC – SeePlats, – Glasgow School of Art
http://www.seeplats.com/

Music by Lime Headed Dog
http://www.limeheadeddog.com/

WARMBABY – Architectural Installation
Sample section of their installation which they are constructing at The Burning Man.
http://warmbaby.tumblr.com/

ROYAL REFORMATION – Animation
Paul Nicholls – Bartlett School of Architecture

ECO COMMUNE – Animation
Richard Hardy – Bartlett School of Architecture

THE ELEPHANT SUBWAY (KALEIDOSCOPE EDIT) – Shortl Film
Jonathan Gales – Bartlett School of Architecture

LE GARE – Short Film
Frank Hanna – Greenwich School of Art

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Film Screenings
Courtyard
2:30pm, 4:30pm, 5:30pm

Interactive performance in with RELAY installation
Main Space 3pm, 5pm

Shadow Puppet Performance
Courtyard 7:30pm

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“Dungeon of Discoveries” - In a bunker below Dalston’s main artery, festival-goers will explore a sprawling candelit exhibition space of interconnecting rooms to experience multiple performances and sensory-based interactive installations curated by Cleo Roberts and Taktal

Land of Kings here

Exhibition Entrance

#1_Candy Family, Jakob Lund

Visual Projection

#2_Drawing in the Dark, Brian Macken, Joshua Scott, Tamsin Hanke, 2010

Interactive Lighting Installation
This project was designed as installation within a WW2 Bunker in North East London as part of The Land Of Kings Music Festival 2010. As the occupant’s eyes adjust to the darkness, they gain an understanding of the different annexes of this abandoned concrete structure. During the event each room hosted a variety of spatial art installations. Our brief was to design and encourage a playful interaction between the isolated spaces. We became interested in using light as a tool to record the events occupancy. Phosphorescent surfaces were used to react to a light source actuated by a remote trigger situated in a secondary space (within the bunker). The light charges the paint creating a temporary memory of inhabitation; this is controlled and subverted by other users. The project was designed and fabricated within one week.

#3 UV Ping-Pong, Rob Morrison, Duncan Ibbit, Ali Frazer

Interactive Installation

James Stevens,  Architect -  April 2010

A site specific installation conceived and constructed  in one week

Mimicking the original but now defunct electrical circuits of the space, a steel electrical conduit droops down from the blackness of the ceiling, emitting a focused beam of light onto the wet floor.  As the apparatus occilates through a slow curve, the light is reflected from the water onto the walls, to form a changing pitted circle, rising and falling like a moon, whose face is blurred as drips brake the surface of the water.

The abundance of dampness and darkness found in this subterranean space are used as the substance of the work and by the installation of this kinetic light source, the bunker itself is exposed as a found object.  Texture, element, movement and volume are explored through a simple yet controlled use of light, reflection and shadow play; highlighting the found condition by transforming its qualities into something new.