Play On Productions led an eight-month professional development project for 100 young people from across London. Culminating in ‘Circle of Power’ dance performance and touring exhibition at V&A, Bow Arts Trust and East Potential Gallery. Inspired by V&A’s 2010-11 Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes exhibition, the young people interpreted the V&A’s global cultures collection to produce art works that explored…
Play On Productions’ TTTI exhibition transformed Whitstable’s Horsebridge Arts Centre into one giant time travel portal, transporting participants and audiences back in time to Whitstable’s past. A three-month participatory art piece and month long exhibition by artist Alexis K Johnson, filmmaker James Johnson, commissioned artists and 50 residents. Known locally as the ‘unofficial’ tourist information centre, the Horsebridge regularly directs…
Passport 2 Pimlico saw 500 residents take to the streets to re-imagine and re-enact the 1949 Ealing Classic ‘Passport to Pimlico’. A three-year series of live performances filmed in public spaces across Pimlico by artist Alexis K Johnson and filmmakers James Johnson and Paul Cowie. Exhibited in Tate Britain and Hyde Park reaching an audience of 15,000. It represented Westminster…