SETTING: THE SHUNT VAULTS IN CONSTANT FLUX
The Lounge was a late night club, open for four years, hosting over a thousand artists of all disciplines and welcoming an audience of half a million. For £5 on a weekday or £10 at the weekend, punters could enter the space and see everything on offer. From week to week the whole design of the space transformed.
Its unique atmosphere was built by the ten core members of the Shunt collective, who curated on a rotational basis.
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A maze of vaults underneath London Bridge station is the unlikely home of one of the city’s coolest and dampest fringe venues. Officially a members club (non-members have to queue for entry) shunt offers a weekly line-up of live art, theatre, music and pretty much any avant-garde event they happen to devise. Boundary bending is an understatement here as shunt goes out of its way to make sure every night is unique. A sensory overload.
TIME OUT
A music, art and performance space that occupied the vaults beneath London Bridge from 2006-2010. Founded by a collective of artists, for four years it played host to all manner of weird and wonderful performances : theatre and dance, art installations, film screenings, bands and DJ's, all tied together with an undercurrent of wild abandon. Along with providing a unique location in which to showcase performance of all kinds, something in the nature of the venue fed into the hedonistic tendency : it was as if the visiting crowds, descending into a space that existed physically outside the confines of everyday life, felt themselves exempted from its rules.
URBAN TIMESShunt were, without doubt, one of the best things to happen to us as a company.
(Clare Beresford for Little Bulb - one of the companies curated at the Lounge. Now, Olivier award winners)
Directed and curated by SHUNT
Building and production manager: Andrea Salazar
Head of workshop: George Tomlinson
Head of tech: Stephen Royle
Producer: Luke Cooper
Images from work by Tom Duggan, Brendan Walker, Lewis Gibson, Nigel&Louise, Gemma Brockis, Callum P Crouch, Serena Bobowski, Lizzie Clachan, Superthriller, Season Butler, and everyone.