I have continued my reach out to secure sites to conduct testing of my interventions in by contacting the following venues and groups.
Venues contacted in this latest round of reach out:
- Carousel – Creative Hub with guest chefs, workshops and exhibits
- I emailed and called, they are having a staff meeting at the end of the week in which they will discuss the option fo collaboration and get back to me
- Camden Art Centre – Gallery and exhibition space featuring a cafe
- Tate Britan – Cafe space
- After visiting the Tate last Friday I was unable to meet anyone who had influence over whether any testing in the space would be possible. Therefore, I have since emailed and called the venue in attempt to form any type of collaboration.
- Cob Gallery – shows the work of emerging artists and offers refreshments
- Horse Hospital – exhibition and events space
- Proposito Studios – responsible for the immersive pop-up exhibition on the South Bank earlier this year
- They are focused on raising awareness to ecology and the role of humans in ecology, thus alining very closely with the ethos of my project.
- 180 Strand – exhibition space showing immersive works such as that of Ryoji Ikeda
- Kitchen Theory – Immersive supper club running monthly dinner events targeting all the senses, they also have a podcast and design studio
As well as reaching out to external venues I have also contacted the cafes and bars of different UAL campuses in the hope that I may be able to run tests of my ideas on immersive natural experiences through technology here. I have contacted Chelsea Collage of Arts and London Collage of Fashion, as I was able to find contact details for them individually. However, I have also contacted the general student union for UAL to ask if they are able to help on this matter, as well as the catering operations for UAL and the events management for UAL. I also plan on going directly to the cafe at CSM and asking if there would be an opportunity to collaborate there.
Reflection
I have heard back from the Chelsea College of Arts and have a meeting arranged to meet with their head of catering on Tuesday, so that will hopefully be a very promising lead. I will also continue to pursue different venues that I see may fit my testing criteria in the on-going search to get my testing underway. After recently contacting a range of exhibition spaces and galleries but net focus of attention will move towards supper clubs and pop-ups bars/ restaurants in the hope of securing more opportunities for interventions.