V&A Museum and Prague Quadrennial
The first ever immersive video installation about the Glastonbury Festival. Showcasing previously unseen footage captured at the festival in 2014, this installation explores the ethos of the largest green field performance festival in the world. Emerging from the idyllic Somerset countryside, the festival shapes and is shaped by this distinctive topography, which has been imbued with significance through centuries of myth and legend. Rooted in 1970s hippie culture, Glastonbury remains a platform for people from far and wide to come together in the Somerset countryside, to explore alternative societal narratives and tribes, promote Green politics and have five days of fun with the music, the mud and the madness. The festival has grown in scale since its humble beginnings in 1970, attracting 175, 000 people in 2014. The scale of the gathering is both inspiring and challenging, creating huge opportunity and infrastructure. The installation aims to capture this complexity through its exploration of the ideals and the design of the shared space.
Jaroslav Fragner Gallery May 28-June 28, 2015
V&A Museum Theatre and Performance Gallery June - January 2016
Credits:
Exhibition Curator and Producer: Kate Bailey, V&A
Film Installation Director and Producer: Emily Harris, V&A
Video Design: Luke Halls for PQ, Zsolt Balogh for V&A
Editor: Warren Chapman
Sound Design: Gareth Fry
Project Coordinator: Helen Gush
Graphic Design: Marc Jennings
Exhibition Build and Audio Visual: Hawthorn Theatrical Ltd
Projection mapping inside and outside a pyramid structure reflecting Glastonbury Festival as an inverted version of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Human needs and a nod to Glastonbury’s main stage, The Pyramid.
To my surprise and delight - guess who came and graffitied my installation at the V&A, secretly in the middle of the night?
