fAirground
Killick Street Health Centre, London, UK, 2025
VideoInteractive Installation, AI-Enhanced Generative Art, Audiovisual Technology, Artistic Healing, Community Co-creation
fAirground is a two-hour immersive performance event that opened Kites of Liberation, an exhibition of outsider artists hosted at the NHS Killick Street Health Centre and sponsored by Slash Arts from November 2025 to April 2026. Created with Neverland Space Theatre, the work brings together kites, poetry, contemporary dance, and real-time AI-generated visuals, transforming a working health centre into a therapeutic space for collective sensing, memory, and shared presence.
At the centre of the work are kites made through months of community workshops with three local partners connected to the health centre: the Claremont Project, which works with people over 50; Muriel Street Care Home, whose residents live with cognitive and other challenges; and Solidarity Hub, a women’s refuge. Participants designed and built kites as symbols of liberation, freedom, and childhood memory. Across different lives and backgrounds, shared gestures began to appear through the same materials, patterns, and ways of making. The feeling of wind became a common language. These kites, together with the poems written alongside them, became the material carried into the performance.
The event began with a pre-show of interactive installations. A kite-gesture system sent kinetic poetry across the space, while audiovisual displays invited the audience into a shared state of attention. It then led into a twenty-minute audiovisual dance performance by Neverland Space Theatre, where contemporary dance unfolded in live dialogue with light, sound, and residents’ poetry. AI-generated visuals responded to the poems as live prompts, while wind-like sound textures brought the presence of the kites back into the choreography. The health centre’s communal area became a “playground of air”: a therapeutic field where participants, dancers, clinicians, and machines briefly shared the same atmosphere.
fAirground sits within a wider NHS effort to build closer relationships between health centres and the neighbourhoods they serve. The work understands the body, whether patient, resident, or dancer, as a living threshold between physical and digital experience. It also reimagines healthcare architecture as a place where care, community, and gentle technology can meet. Within Kites of Liberation, fAirground marks the moment when months of community making opened into a shared encounter, offering a small experiment in what AI-mediated art can contribute to public wellbeing beyond the gallery.
Credits fAirground is part of Kites of Liberation (Art in Practice Series, Killick Street Health Centre, November 2025 to April 2026).
Curator & Sponsor: Simon Hodgkinson · Slash Arts
Community Partners & Workshop Facilitators Claremont Project: Martine Charambolou
Muriel Street Care Home: Jiarong Yu, Pooja Tanwar
Solidarity Hub: Jess Baines, Sara Jane Berry
Neverland Space Theatre
Creative Producer: Jiarong Yu
Curator: Jingyi Tong
Movement Directors & Performers: Zhe Zhang, Jiarong Yu
Live Musician & Sound Artist: Lois Qi
Creative Technologist & Visual Artist: Shangyu Li
Immersive & Interactive Artist: Yiqing Ivy Tian