Camden Arts Centre

Commissioned by Camden Arts Centre and supported by Bloomberg, Junction introduced a series of three site-specific commissions for London’s King’s Cross in 2008. Artist William Hunt, Art and Architecture collective public works and filmmaker Ria Pacquée presented works including live music, comedy, undercover filming, a mobile poster float, as well as a polygraph machine.

Camden Arts Centre is delighted to present Junction, an exhibition drawing together all the work produced for the series, creating a unique snap shot of King’s Cross. Linked by its engagement with the notorious site, the show portrays a mix of community, spectacle and concealed spaces.

William Hunt invited a number of performers to take to the stage for his project Saturday Night TV, attaching each ‘contestant’ to a lie detector device in a live, X Factor-style show which interrogated the nature of performing art and the elements the audience perceives as authentic in performances. For the exhibition at Camden Arts Centre, Hunt will premiere a new film of his project and will display various ephemera used throughout the project.

public works roamed through King’s Cross on their mobile Folk Float, engaging with local communities and individuals to gather thoughts and opinions about how people can take control of regenerating their own community. Their project pooled experience and brought together previously disparate groups to act as a joint catalyst for activity and change.

Artist and filmmaker Ria Pacquée has been travelling anonymously from Antwerp to King’s Cross throughout the summer, secretly recording her journeys while observing the streets and forgotten spaces of the ever-changing and historical quarter of King’s Cross. The resulting film, Return of the Witness, is a private portrait of a very public area and will be shown as the final part of a triptych of films made about the area.