Daydreaming With... St Michael's

The Heretics' Gate by Doug Foster at Daydreaming With... St Michael's

Revellers at this month's Camden Crawl, the annual north London indie music festival, may have been surprised to find an immersive art installation right in the middle of the sunshine-fuelled chaos. DJ, producer and curator James Lavelle chose the event to launch 2011's edition of Daydreaming With..., which each year showcases a range of creative experiences based on the crossover between art and music.

The Heretics' Gate by Doug Foster at Daydreaming With... St Michael's

St Michael's Church in Camden played host to two installations: The Heretics' Gate, a film installation by Doug Foster drawing inspiration from Dante's Inferno, and Red Clay by Jonathan Glazer, an equally unsettling film which follows two dancers, entwined in one another's gaze. Both pieces have been configured to play against the architecture of St Michael's, resulting in an immersive and highly effective viewer experience.

To read more about the power of experiental installations, read our previous post.