Barbican Centre to transform car park into subterranean club space for new exhibition
The Barbican Centre will transform its underground car park into a club space for the first time this spring, as part of the London art institution’s upcoming Feel the Sound exhibition.
Starting on May 22 and running until August 31, Feel the Sound will take over various parts of the Barbican Centre, with 11 installations and commissions set to explore our “personal relationship to sound and embracing a world of listening that goes beyond the audio.”
Described as a “multi-sensory” experience, the exhibition will feature installations across the Barbican’s Curve gallery, Lakeside Foyer and “for the first time” its underground car park.
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The exhibition has been co-produced by Tokyo-based culture hub MoN Takanawa: The Museum of Narratives, with installations from trans+ vocal collective Trans Voices, sound artist Miyu Hosoi, director Evan Ifekoya, Montreal-based festival and collective MUTEK and many more.
Meanwhile, Barbican’s Car Park 5 will be transformed into a cab space by Temporary Pleasure; entitled Joy Ride the installation is set to explore the connection between “boy racers” and DIY raves, with the Barbican promising a “modified car soundsystem” within the space.
Car Park 5 will also host an installation from Domestic Data Streamers called Forever Frequencies, which is set to consist of a “series of monoliths” — alongside Your Inner Symphony, a piece created by Kinda Studios and Nexus Studios that “fuses neuroscience and design to capture visitors’ emotional responses, revealing the invisible ways music shapes our internal rhythms.”
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“Feel the Sound is an invitation to explore the expanded world of sound, how we feel it, see it and the possibilities it provides for us to understand ourselves and the world differently. Ultimately, we are sonic beings,” says Luke Kemp, who heads up the centre’s creative programme Barbican Immersive.
“This is an exciting opportunity to open up new spaces across the Barbican and think about where we encounter sound both in our bodies and throughout the Centre,” they continue.
“Feel the Sound joins our roster of experiential exhibitions which launch at the Barbican before touring the world. Previously we’ve focused on AI (AI, More Than Human), the climate emergency (Our Time on Earth), and this time, the rhythm of the planet and our bodies.”
For more info and tickets for Feel The Sound, click here.
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