David Bowie: You’re Not Alone will run at Lightroom from April, featuring performance footage, rarely heard interviews and never-before-seen material on giant projections.
The show will transport visitors into the performances of the music and cultural icon when it opens from 22nd April, currently booking until 28th June.
Footage from the global figure’s most iconic performances will be projected onto the 11-metre tall walls and vast open floor at Lightroom in King’s Cross, London.
What is Lightroom?
Located next to Coal Drops Yard, Lightroom displays work from icons of art, music, film, fashion and science as a large-scale immersive experience featuring graphics and audio. The experience has featured the art of David Hockney, explored space with Tom Hanks and travelled back 66 million years to see dinosaurs roam the planet for Prehistoric Planet: Discovering Dinosaurs.
Writer and director, Mark Grimmer said: “It says something about our relationship with artistic heroes that we’re drawn to mystery, otherness, the alien…
“In Bowie’s case, this is our construct, not his. Throughout his career, Bowie repeatedly resisted being figured as anything but human. Rather than undermining his mystique, we designed a show to celebrate Bowie as a champion of human creativity - focusing on the message he expressed time and again: that art, in all its forms, is our best hope for understanding what it means to be alive.”
About the show
The 360-degree experience will showcase some of Bowie’s performances that redefined popular culture, using a combination of rarely seen and never-before-exhibited material, selected from thousands of hours of film in the David Bowie Archive, photography, drawings, lyrics, personal notes and sketches.
Audiences can expect archive material from Space Oddity through Diamond Dogs and “Heroes” to ★, accompanied by Bowie as its sole voice, composed from hundreds of interviews from a five-decade-long career.
The experience is structured into chapters, offering an insight into his perspective on the subjects most important to him, including: theatricality, spirituality, songwriting and the power of creativity.
Audiences will get the chance to see moments including Bowie’s 1975 interview with Russell Harty and a reconstructed set of the Diamond Dogs tour.
Group booking
Groups of ten or more can save when booking in advance to visit David Bowie: You’re Not Alone at Lightroom. Further tickets will be released for dates after 28th June.
For more information about David Bowie: You’re Not Alone, visit lightroom.uk.
