Created through a collaborative research project with Hammersmith United Charities, this body of work brought together multiple stakeholders—residents, local organisations, artists, volunteers and service providers—to explore how art can respond to community needs. Across video pieces, installation elements, digital portraiture and participatory workshops, the project offered different entry points for engagement, allowing people to contribute at varying levels of involvement.
First converging at St Paul’s Centre in Hammersmith, London on 6 July 2018 for the charity's 400th anniversary celebrations, the works later toured to Westfield Shopping Centre, Ravenscourt Park’s Unity Day and the Lyric Square Summer Series, reaching over one million people across public, civic and community settings through the summer of 2018.
Created by Carolyn Defrin
with filmmaker, Winstan Whitter and Hammersmith locals
This series of 33 moving images layers Hammersmith locals with their own artwork and/or artwork they have chosen to place in their homes. The portraits also share responses to a question Carolyn asked about what art people would make if they had all the skills and resources they needed.
These portraits will be shown around Hammersmith throughout summer 2018, including on the Lyric Square screen and at Westfield Shopping Centre.
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Created by Carolyn Defrin
with filmmaker, Winstan Whitter, designer, Paul Burgess, composer Matshidiso Mohajane and Hammersmith locals.
Compiled from interviews with local people and footage of the local area, this film installation reflects on a collectively voiced need for social cohesion at this fragmented moment in time. How do we navigate fracture and move between many pieces?
St. Paul's Centre 3-6th July 2018
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Created by Carolyn Defrin with Levitt Bernstein Architects and Petit Miracles.
This outdoor installation explores how creative questions in playful environments might inform the design process for an intergenerational housing scheme planned for Hammersmith.
Guests are invited to sit together on unique benches and swings to reflect on age and spatial design.
Inspired by an interview between old and young, Moving Time continues a collaboration between Carolyn and Levitt Bernstein Architects.
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Read more about their previous collaboration here: Remembering The Future
