The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and O’Neill/Ross present
Friday 9th – Sunday 25th June 2017
At locations across Kensington and Chelsea
InTRANSIT will once again take over the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea with its experimental programme of site-responsive art and performance. With this year’s theme of ‘Island Life’, InTRANSIT brings together responses from a diverse selection of artists looking at the contrasts of urban isolation and connectivity, celebrating community and the principle that ‘no man is an island’.
Pop-up ‘Island’ installations create an arts-archipelago across the borough, with the Portobello Pavilion – InTRANSIT’s hub of practical activity and discussion – at its centre. Highlights include: a series of large-scale, playful sandcastles produced in conjunction with the Museum of Architecture; an immersive exploration of JG Ballard’s novel Concrete Island; an electro-folk opera at the Print Room; an art exhibition in a secret subterranean space at Notting Hill Gate station; and a day of dance and participation from Polynesia and Melanesia.
InTRANSIT 2017 highlights include:
Portobello Pavilion – Friday 9th June to Sunday 25th June, Powis Square, W11
A striking temporary structure situated in historic Powis Square, the Portobello Pavilion offers a serene landing place within the wider context of the programme. Sandcastles – Friday 9th June to Sunday 25th June, various locations
The Museum of Architecture presents a series of large-scale sandcastles, each up to 2.5 metres tall, designed by leading UK architects. Located outside the Design Museum, in Duke of York Square, and at Portobello Market, these iconic structures will unite InTRANSIT’s ‘Island Life’ with the London Festival of Architecture’s theme of ‘Memory’.
Concrete Island – From Thursday 15th June
Charlie Warde returns JG Ballard’s classic novel Concrete Island to its site of origin in this immersive adaptation. Our protagonist, Robert Maitland, a contemporary Robinson Crusoe, plunges through the matrix of modern life and becomes marooned on a section of wasteland earmarked for development under London’s busiest road. Escape Artists – Friday 9th June to Wednesday 14th June
Collaborating with course directors and emerging artists from Central St Martin’s, Royal College of Music and the Cass School of Art, Escape Artists uses the issue of decreasing academic space as an opportunity for established colleges to break with tradition and take their practice off-site.
Remnants – From Monday 12th June
Performed by four singers and dancers, Remnants is an electro-folk opera, re-arranging traditional Balkan vocal music and combining it with contemporary electronics.
These are just a taste of all that’s on offer. Have a look to see what else:
www.intransitfestival.co.uk.
Most are free of charge but some require pre-booking.