LUND POINT
V&A MUSEUM COLLABORATION
Project
Lund Point
Location
East London
Partners
V&A Museum, Brendan Barry
In the summer of 2021 our young cultural producers worked with artist Brendan Barry and the V&A Museum to transform four currently empty dwellings, in a 23-storey tower block on the Carpenters Estate at the edge of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Rooms in the empty flats were converted into a multi-lens camera obscura and rudimentary photographic darkrooms.
Together we created ultra-large format analogue photographic prints, which offer a unique perspective of the site where East Bank is emerging and the new V&A East Storehouse and V&A East Museum will open in 2024 and 2025 respectively.
The work is proposed as an act of cultural democracy, reframing and inscribing a site through the lived experience of people living in east London. Beyond the Box co-design with young people, communities, and organisations to build more equitable places to live, work and play.
The exhibition was opened at The People’s Pavilion and was on display throughout the 10 -day festival, later moving to the V&A Musuem in South Kensington as part of London Design Festival, where it was on display on the architectural landing.
Carpenters Estate
This installation of photographic prints offers a unique perspective from a 23-storey tower block on the edge of the Olympic Park.
This installation of photographic prints offers a unique perspective from a 23-storey tower block on the edge of the Olympic Park
“This project is unique because unlike a lot of things commissioned by cultural spaces, it actively engaged with the voices of the community that it situated itself in. We spoke to residents past and present to make the project as ethical and open as possible. The project allowed for young East Londoners to ‘take up space’, something that is at the heart of the Envision East festival.”
— Condie Baiden, Lead Young Cultural Producer
