Whitechapel Gallery’s ambitious late-night festival returned on 23^rd July. We worked as their media partner to celebrate its arrival, host some of the pieces, and provide a backdrop to live performance within the programme.

Buildings and structures in city spaces don’t have to be bound by their original purposes. There is ingenuity in looking at an empty room, seeing beyond its present state, and conceiving of ways to reinvent it with an injection of art, music, theatre, people, community, activity, or perhaps a combination of the lot. Whitechapel Gallery’s Nocturnal Creatures series does just that – with annual takeovers of its ever-changing, east-central London locality, pushing art out from its four walls to the community just beyond them.

The festival’s 2022 programme spanned immersive film, music, performance, art, DJ sets and, of course, a bouncy castle, once again accessible to all for free. Within walking distance of the Whitechapel Gallery site, new works premiered by Jennie Moran, Emma Talbot, Janette Parris, Jasleen Kaur, musician and broadcaster Nabihah Iqbal, filmmakers Baff Akoto and Patrick Goddard, and theatre company Cardboard Citizens, also joined by pieces from Henry/Bragg and An Untold Story, Assemble / House of Annetta, and London Voices, all carefully curated and placed in consideration of the landscape around. Alongside them, AGOSTINO and Touching Bass’ Errol Anderson and Alex Rita assumed DJ duties, providing perfectly paired sonics to set the scene. Sited within the House of Annetta, St Boniface Church, Toynbee Hall, the Hickman, Aldgate Square and the Bishopsgate Institute, the night successfully achieved its aims of setting imaginations alight with experiences you can’t have anywhere else.