Smoking Area


2022
Mixed media installation and interactive video game
In collaboration with Ben Holland
Exhibited as part of the ‘Where to now the sequins have gone?’ with Kleanthis Kyriacou for Lewisham Council






In the discovery of queer memory and new storytelling methods, Smoking Area experiments with gamefication as an archiving tool, and through the curation of spatial fragments encourages reminiscence of Lewisham’s lost queer spaces and the people that inhabited them.

The installation explored the spatial and social nature of queer Lewisham’s past birthing a new commentary existing between the past, present and future. At the end of each day, transcripts of oral confessions were used as the inspiration for the artist duo to extract descriptive signifiers to produce an abstracted space, containing visual hints to lost LGBTQ+ venues whilst simultaneously forming new hybrid spaces that balance between fiction and reality.



Still from Interactive Gameplay






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