Brussels Meets Brighton

The Shunt, London Bridge

A scintillating week of cutting-edge multimedia performance, gigs and installations

Between 30th April and the 3rd of May London’s exciting Shunt Lounge will host a massive exhibition involving Arts Collectives from Brighton, Brussels and London. The event will incoporate a feast of fascinating performance including: live music, puppetry, dance and physical theatre, video and sound installations, photography, slam poetry, scientists, robotics and more.

The themes for the show were: metacommunication, real-time improvisation and inter-cultural understanding. The exploration of these themes were facilitated by the MetaHub.

The MetaHub is a computerised Audio-Visual pool operated by 11 Vj’s, Dj’s and Hackers through which all audio and visual feeds from the entire exhibition pass; all participant artists may then take any data-stream to use as they please. The Shunt Lounge is an incredible labyrinth of caves and arches underneath London Bridge station which serves as an artistic playground, a concert venue and a gallery.

Influenced by the Interdisciplinary Exhibitions « EMMA » run by Artefakt and Kimera in Brussels between 2003 till 2006, Frédéric Monnoye, a brighton-based belgian digital artist, and Guillaume Serve co-ordinated the project by gathering artists from different cultures and disciplines and asking them to perform together within improvised collaboration.