STORIES FROM THE STREETS
Interactive exhibition based on Gillian Slovo’s book Ten Days, for CityRead 2016
We were commissioned by CityRead London to create an interactive exhibition within Foyles bookshop's central London gallery space, which celebrated the launch of Gillian Slovo's book Ten Days.
For this installation, we created a ‘police control centre’ within Foyles bookshop’s central London gallery space, where visitors could interact with extracts taken from the first 72 hours of the Ten Days audiobook. Content is triggered by placing ‘evidence’ relating to each scene onto a control desk panel, promoting audio and visual cues. A second area of the installation, modelled in part on the wooden hoardings that covered up broken shop windows in the 2011 London riots, encourages visitors to contribute their own responses to the book and its themes.
Evidence Booths
Portable versions of the installation dubbed ‘evidence booths’ toured around London libraries throughout the Cityread reading campaign, with week-long residencies in twelve locations.
Cityread London
Cityread is an annual celebration of literature that aims to bring reading to life for the whole capital. Each April, Cityread asks London’s citizens, workers and visitors to pick up a book – the same book – and read it together. Taking the chosen novel as a starting point, a month-long programme of book groups, film screenings and other events takes place across all London boroughs in libraries, bookshops and museums.
Collaborators
Gillan Slovo - writer
Aron Duckworth and Tom Dawson - exhibition furniture and evidence Booth fabrication,
Buckley Williams Ltd. - creative tech
Alison Cowling - intern
Karen Dickinson - research assistant
Ali Heywood - production assistant
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