Islington Exhibits

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Artist Kit Poulson made this video during his residency project at Islington Town Hall. For whole content of the video, please check here.

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Deep inside the town hall is an old projection booth. Throughout June 2010 this was occupied by the artist-in-residence Kit Poulson. He was granted access to the town hall’s hidden archives, memos and stories of improbable history, and its plans and maps for a nearly possible future.

Once a practising historian, Kit Poulson was struck off the academic register for ‘fabulism’. This project was a chance for him to clear his name and demonstrate his theories of the ‘extended present’. Throughout the residency Kit made a new set of plans to display his findings.

"During the residency at the town hall I will create a set of drawings which show a ‘city of imagination’, a vision of the possibility of a joyful future in the borough. This will contain things that are, things that were and things that could have been. I will reflect on how the town hall is the place where decisions are made that shape this plan."

Event Information

Dr Kit Poulson presented a daily series of free guided tours through the Town Hall during Islington Exhibits 2010.
In these he looked at the traces of dreams, the possible future, the impossible past, and how things actually get done. The tour encompassed many interesting facets of the history of Islington including clowns and cheesecake, underground ballrooms and aerial ballets, brooms and lightbulbs.

Islington Council Town Hall is the civic centre for the Borough of Islington. Opened in 1923, this large public building on Upper Street is the hub for a range of social and political activities. It hosts ceremonies for marriages, civil partnerships and individuals becoming British citizens, the Council meet regularly in its stunning wood-panelled Council Chamber and the Executive Members and Council Leader operate from a network of busy meeting rooms and offices. The Assembly Hall (a beautiful art deco ballroom) reopened in March as a space for concerts, conferences, talks and events.

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