Exhibition Road is London’s cultural heartland and a place for anyone with a thirst for creativity and discovery. The completion of the two-year, £25m Exhibition Road infrastructure project has created one of Europe’s landmark new public spaces – a fitting environment for the world-class arts, science and learning organisations that collectively comprise Britain’s most popular tourism destination with almost 24m visits a year.
In 2012 Exhibition Road is surrounded by Olympic and Paralympic sporting activity – and we’ve devised a year-long programme of cultural activity to reflect the international excellence that the Games represent. Headline projects include:
Supersonix is a six-month international celebration of the art and science of sound. With sound artists in residence at museums, an international conference, site-specific work and the free Exhibition Road Music Day festival, Supersonix has something for everyone to discover and explore, to delight in, be inspired by and inspire. Join us throughout 2012 as we celebrate the amazing work of artists, scientists, thinkers and doers in the ever-changing sonic landscape.
Supersonix is an Exhibition Road Cultural Group (ERCG) project. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of ERCG member organisations and the PRS for Music Foundation.
A partnership with the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Europe, the Supersonix conference will bring together 300 artists, scientists and practitioners in the field of sonic art and science.
It will lead academic and mainstream public audiences on a journey through sound via experiments, lectures, workshops and interactive technology, encouraging the broadest audiences to experience London’s cultural heartland in a new way, through the shared theme of sound.
It aims to:
Full programme details to follow.
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, the local authority behind the visionary transformation of Exhibition Road, is celebrating the Olympics with an eight-day festival. With games and dance, acrobatics and aeriel displays, scientific experiments, new writing and visual art installations, the Road Show is a free festival that will explore the creative potential of the new urban landscape of South Kensington. Road Show is produced by independent Di Robson Events and Arts Management.
Resident in Germany, Tony Cragg is one of Britain’s best-known international artists. This major exhibition includes monumental sculptures along Exhibition Road as well as displays of other works within a number of institutions. Curated by the Cass Foundation – Britain’s leading foundation devoted to sculpture – the project is a partnership with the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea and the Exhibition Road Cultural Group.
