Description: Throughout August 2013 Hack the Barbican took over the Barbican's cavernous foyer spaces and filled them with 100 discipline-bending installations, performances, workshops and discussions. A half-size recreation of the Barbican's biggest penthouse provided a social hub and stage for performances and talks. Site-specific projects hijacked areas of the Barbican’s brutalist interior and converted them into…
Throughout August 2013 Hack the Barbican took over the Barbican’s cavernous foyer spaces and filled them with 100 discipline-bending installations, performances, workshops and discussions.
A half-size recreation of the Barbican’s biggest penthouse provided a social hub and stage for performances and talks. Site-specific projects hijacked areas of the Barbican’s brutalist interior and converted them into games, performances and installations. The projects brought together theatre performers, computer scientists, sculptors, hardware hackers, teachers, musicians and everything in between.
Marking a radical departure from conventional arts events Hack the Barbican was organised without any central curation or commissioning.