Room to Play is a new immersive stage and installation at Hidden Festival 2025. Set within a jungle of real and artificial plants, the room will be filled with projection, interactive installations and a programme of live music and performance.
Thursday 12 – Sunday 15th June, 1pm-6pm
Reimagined Ruins is a group exhibition by 8 emerging artists who took part in ‘Room to Play’ – a 6-week course exploring interactive visuals with Tinderbox Collective and Ray Interactive. Artists came from different disciplines including music, dance, film, textiles, game-design, visual art and sculpture. After learning about the visual programming software Touch Designer and different sensors that respond to movement, touch and sound, the artists formed teams and worked together to create a series of artworks that make up this immersive installation and performance space.
“Within the cracks of this former site of human production, nature quietly begins to return. At first it appears artificial, broken, alienated – an echo of past domination. But venture deeper into the exhibition and the narrative shifts: nature begins to speak, to breathe, and to respond. Through interactive digital installations, sensor-driven environments, and living plants, the artists explore this relationship between nature and our post-industrial world.”
Room To Play features emerging artists Sorin Bath, Emma Bloor, Tsoi Huen Wong, Ewan Fisher, Greta McMillan, Yucheng Sun, Luca Kerr and Sasha Payne.
From grass-roots youth work to award-winning arts and music productions, Tinderbox are a creative community of young people, musicians, artists and youth workers. Tinderbox aims to ignite a spark in people – one which fills them with confidence, imagination and sense of possibility, and which enables people to achieve things they never thought possible. Their work uses music and the arts to bring people together and strengthen communities, providing exciting opportunities that support young people to build their confidence, skills, self-esteem, and professional experience.
