WildWorks has been invited to create the special display at the centre of the current Collaborators: UK Design for Performance 2003 – 2007 exhibition at the Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum London.
The Collaborators exhibition at the V&A is the first time that this major museum has hosted a large collection of contemporary Theatre Design work. The Temporary Space within the Collaborators exhibition provides a space for the selected ‘special’ displays to provide opportunities to work with and showcase designers whose work is significant and provocative in various ways.
Kate Burnett, Collaborators Project Director and exhibition curator says:
I have wanted to include Bill’s work in one of the SBTD exhibitions for years. He is one of the UK’s most influential contemporary designer-directors, making functional structures that perfectly match the dynamics of a performance while enabling moments of visual poetry that stay with one for years.
The installation created by Bill Mitchell with company design team, Sue Hill and Myriddin Wannel, features imagery and design from - A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings and Souterrain. Developed through residencies in communities in Europe and the UK this installation also creates an environment within the exhibition to which visitors can also contribute.
The exhibition will continue until the 19th of June.