Workshop / public intervention commissioned by
The Midnight Run, a walking night-time cultural journey through a city. It gathers strangers and local artists to explore, play and create whilst the city sleeps. The Epic London Midnight Run fell under the ‘Light 2015’ European tour. It was a part of UNESCO’s global International Year of Light series of events, and designed to raise funds for ‘Liter of Light’, a sustainable lighting project which aims to bring eco-friendly solar bottle-bulbs to communities living in darkness.
Each member of the team was offered a LED balloon and was encouraged to walk around the area of UCL in order to spot an urban gap: an abandoned, sacrified, useless public space. The aim was to recognise it, analyse it, inhabit it and celebrate it with the balloon.
Facilitators: Inua Ellams (Founder of the Midnight Run), Eleanor Fogg
Commissioned artist: Vivianna Chiotini
UCL courtyard, London, UK, July 2015
︎ Video documentation of the event
The Midnight Run, a walking night-time cultural journey through a city. It gathers strangers and local artists to explore, play and create whilst the city sleeps. The Epic London Midnight Run fell under the ‘Light 2015’ European tour. It was a part of UNESCO’s global International Year of Light series of events, and designed to raise funds for ‘Liter of Light’, a sustainable lighting project which aims to bring eco-friendly solar bottle-bulbs to communities living in darkness.
Each member of the team was offered a LED balloon and was encouraged to walk around the area of UCL in order to spot an urban gap: an abandoned, sacrified, useless public space. The aim was to recognise it, analyse it, inhabit it and celebrate it with the balloon.
Facilitators: Inua Ellams (Founder of the Midnight Run), Eleanor Fogg
Commissioned artist: Vivianna Chiotini
UCL courtyard, London, UK, July 2015
︎ Video documentation of the event
