Passage to PlayLAND 2024

Part of Derby QUAD’s Summer of Play, Passage to PlayLAND brings together two exciting interactive and family-friendly immersive installations into one exhibition experience.

PlayLAB and PlayLAND are shared, playful experiences that invite the gallery visitor to fully engage with the physical space and to consider their local environment. Both projects were commissioned and originally exhibited at LEVEL Centre, Rowsley, and have been adapted for QUAD.

In PlayLAB audiences explore how we create play through the imaginative process of experimenting with the things around us, before being taken to the world of outdoor play in PlayLAND, where the artist invites you to play, sense and immerse yourself in a relaxing playful world. Passage to PlayLAND incorporates participant made artwork and performance and includes participants from LEVEL Centre’s LEVEL Makes and Youth Collective community groups.

Passage to PlayLAND celebrates a decade of John Whall’s artistic journey to bring community made artwork to gallery audiences through high quality digital experiences. Utilising projection and game engine technology, the work fuses participatory practice with immersive digital interactive installations that puts our everyday creativity on show for all to enjoy.