Glastonbury Festival 2014. Figure made by artist Mark Jenkins, as a site specific works for Shangri-La.

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Glastonbury Festival 2014. American Artist Mark Jenkins, who is creating a set of site specific works for Shangri-La.  Jenkins' practice is to use the "street as a stage" where his sculptures interact with the surrounding environment including passersby who unknowingly become performers. Shangri-La is the after-hours epicentre of Glastonbury Festival, a largely indescribable, ephemeral and interactive world that really comes to life after dark. Unique among festivals, Shangri-la has a central narrative that pins it all together,  it evolves year by year (a bit like Star Wars). All contributors respond to this narrative, and add to it via their installations, venues and performances. When it all comes together on site the audience have a wholly immersive world to become lost in with a myriad of places to explore. Exploration and discovery is an important aspect of  Shangri-la. A maze of covered alleys is riddled with nano-venues, performers and installations, artworks and hidden doors. In 2014 Shangri-La explored the way we create heavens and hells for ourselves.

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Size: 5760px × 3840px
Location: Glastonbury Sommerset UK
Photo credit: © Barry Lewis / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: art, counter-culture, drugs, festival, figure, fun, glastonbury, jenkins, mark, sculpture, shangri-la, youth