concert/performance space
Arch 165, Shepherd's Bush Market, W12 8DF
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Explore the vibrancy of Shepherd’s Bush Market through a new lens, exploring heritage and migration under the railway arches. Mirpur: Atlantis of Kashmir uses immersive projection and original composition to enliven the memories of communities from Mirpur, a region flooded in 1961 to create the landscape-defining Mangla Dam. Plus, contribute your own story of migration to our living archive.
Goldhawk Road, Hammersmith, Hammersmith (D & P), Shepherd's Bush, Shepherd's Bush Market
Shepherd's Bush
207, 272, 72
Enter via Uxbridge Road or Goldhawk Road gates and walk to the middle of the market, look for signage.
There is ramped access to the space, however this ramp does not have handrails. It is a short ramp (less than 1m).
The Market is a busy space with food stalls, shops, and traders. Please expect some exterior noise and while walking to the space.
14:00–19:00
Drop in anytime to see the production played on a loop. It lasts around 10 minutes and there is the chance to add to our living archive.
12:00–19:00
Drop in anytime to see the production played on a loop. It lasts around 10 minutes and there is the chance to add to our living archive.
12:00–19:00
Drop in anytime to see the production played on a loop. It lasts around 10 minutes and there is the chance to add to our living archive.
Mirpur: Atlantis of Kashmir uses immersive technology to bring to life the memories and history of communities of Mirpur, in Kashmir, which was flooded in the 1960s to create the landscape-defining Mangla Dam. Reflecting complex and personal stories of colonialism through infrastructure and development projects, the work centres community stories and invites audiences to contribute their own memories of emigration, man-made landscape change, and lost heritage.
Director Hassun El-Zafar has drawn on his own family's oral histories and was inspired to create the project following conversations with his grandfather. The family's story of migration reflects the experiences of around 70% of British Pakistani families, and resonates with anyone who has migrated to a new place because their homeland has been lost to large-scale landscape change.
Director, Hassun El-Zafar, specialises in multi-disciplinary art & public engagement. Immersive installation HEAR, exploring hearing loss & climate extinction at Southbank Centre received Unlimited / Arthouse UK’s emerging artist commission. Having worked with Wellcome, UNESCO, Ramadan Tent Foundation, BBC Radio & more, he then curated the Royal Institution’s programme and is now Director of Edinburgh Science & a NED for Union of Justice.
The wider creative team consist of Dr Bobby Nisha, a VR researcher interested in virtual realities and placemaking at the University of Sheffield; Shama Rahman, a world-renowned composer and sitar player; Hoyee Tse, a historical researcher specialising in mapping history and the geographic lens; Awais Hussain, a community research practitioner and PhD candidate at the University of York; Jeff Dehut, a video games designer interested in virtual worlds; and Pippa Le Grand, a producer specialising in heritage-led and multi-genre work.
The project offers the opportunity to see the historic and truly multi-cultural Shepherd's Bush Market in a new light, through its burgeoning artistic community. Shepherd’s Bush Market is a market unique amongst others – a thriving and diverse trading community built upon a rich tapestry of history and located deep in the neighbourhood of W12.
For the past 110 years, the Market has captured the hearts and minds of visitors, residents, and traders alike and in the process built deep ties to the surrounding area in which it serves.
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architectural practice, gallery, garden, offices, mixed use
Tucked behind a busy road in W12, this former foundry is a multi-level development featuring an architects’ studio with courtyards and spaces for exhibitions and musical performances. The building's 15m brick chimney is a local landmark. This year we have a new exhibition in our gallery, showcasing the work of celebrated British artist Sophie Smallhorn.
Unknown, Originally the George Broad sculpture foundry , 1895
