The Last Worker at the Paper Factory

One of our unique creative collaborations, showing every night at Hidden Door 2026

The Last Worker at the Paper Factory: A Musical Tour of 7 Visual Artworks

Josh Cake had conversations with seven of our artists about the process of developing their artworks for Hidden Door 2026.

Josh then turned these conversations into songs, to help demystify the art world for our audiences.

This is the story of Hidden Door’s art and our artists, told through song. Nightly at 9pm.

Josh will also be performing on the Spoken Word stage – check the timings for details.

About the Creative Collaborations

Threaded throughout the 2026 programme are a series of newly commissioned interdisciplinary collaborations and site-responsive works, waiting to be encountered by visitors as they explore The Paper Factory.

Artists, musicians, poets and performers have joined forces to create something unique for this year’s former factory space. Throughout the festival, recurring works and programme-wide collaborations inhabit the building’s “Last Shift”. Together, they build a shifting portrait of The Paper Factory, both real and imagined, through fragments of its past, present and possible futures. 

This year’s festival explores how spaces and objects hold memory, and how traces of everyday activity become preserved, misremembered or reimagined over time.

Audiences will navigate the site as the programme unfolds around them. Unique experiences will be shaped through individual routes, encounters and personal perspectives. No single path will reveal the whole picture as works overlap and unfold throughout the building.

These recurring works and programme-wide collaborations will feature every night of the festival from Wednesday 3rd – Sunday 7th June.