Browsing Category: immersive art

  • You’re not alone @ Lightroom

    Lightroom is a three-year-old venue near King’s Cross which was first built with the intention of housing a 600 seat theatre. Four storeys high, it is pretty big. And visitors descend narrow stairs, pass through an infernal, glowing red tunnel and emerge into a vast auditorium as the opening riff from Rebel Rebel booms right …

    September 17, 2026

  • Cyclorama of Jerusalem

    Thanks to binoculars, I could see Christ’s suffering all the more clearly. And I could spectate in comfort at all of the drama playing out at the foot of his cross. I could watch, as if I was an ornithologist, as Mary mother of Jesus and Mary Magdalene both suffered agonies. Or maybe as if …

    September 15, 2026

  • The hope that hurts

    With so much wrong with the world, I come to the gallery hoping for anger, tears and shit (see previous post). At the Barbican last week I found optimism. It was hard to stomach. In Other Worlds is an immersive exhibition from filmmaker and architect Liam Young. It comprises of environmental design, spoken word, model …

    July 17, 2026