UP Projects at Thames Festival

10 - 11 September '11

London

As a part of their summer festival commissions UP projects present three new works at the Thames Festival in London. We recommend checking out these contemporary projects along with the night carnival, which is Britain's largest illuminated night-time carnival procession, on the weekend of September 10 -11 '11.

We Wanted to be the Sky by Tim Etchells is sited on the pier at Bernie Spain Gardens. American songstress Cat Power's evocative song lyric is picked out in colour lightbulbs.

An Encounter with the Supernatural is Imminent by Tai Shani, in her Orpheum Theatre outside BFI, is a live holographic performance of a psychedelic story about an actress who cannot awake from a never-ending dream. The performances will be taking place from 2-4pm and 6-8pm on both days.

Postapocadylic Circuits by Jim Woodall & Brian Random outside Tate Modern is constructed from stretched vinyl billboards, cut down from their hoardings and collaged into a triple sunrise, that loosely resembles Piccadilly Circus after the apocalypse.

These ground-breaking pieces have been commissioned by UP projects in partnerhsip with Shangri-La, Glastonbury Festival with support from Arts Council England.

We Wanted to be the Sky by Tim Etchells

An Encounter with the Supernatural is Imminent by Tai Shani

Postapocadylic Circuits by Jim Woodall & Brian Random