No.6
Installation
Floating Cinema Studio WeaVe
An energetic assemblage of creatives came together to bring about this new route in to the Olympic park, via a re-commissioned British Waterways workboat. Given the brief, “ to connect and engage the people who live and work in the Olympic host boroughs in a cultural event” by the Olympic Delivery Authority. UP Projects developed the concept of a Floating Cinema as part of their on-going programme of commissions called Portavilion, which brings temporary pavilion structures to London’s parks and public spaces. The existing 52 foot narrow boat owned by Annie and Hazel, was redesigned to include a cinema structure by London Architects Studio Weave so that it 70
could navigate the waterways of East London and also take people into the Olympic park. “We invited them to collaborate with us and their boat has temporarily become the Floating Cinema. Their expertise and knowledge of the boating community has been invaluable and Hazel is also our resident skipper.” Says Emma Underhill, Portavilion Curator and Director, UP Projects The collaborative team extends further to include artists Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie whom together form a multi-disciplinary, non-profit creative company known as ‘Somewhere’. Pope and Guthrie are responsible for developing the Floating Cinema
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