Hoxton Story

Artistic Director Lisa Goldman and her team spent periods between 2004 and 2005 interviewing residents of Hoxton housing estates to find out just what has changed for them.

A visual and aural montage of facts, fictions and verbatim testimony culminating in sound and video installations around Hoxton, an interactive website, on-the-street performances, a book and an interview archive.

Performers from Hackney's Young People's Theatre worked alongside a group of actors that included Tam Dean Burn.

The book contained extracts from in depth interviews conducted by The Red Room team with twenty-five Hoxton residents that included squatters, council workers, community activists and artists.

The interviews explores their dreams, disappointments and achievements in relation to the land and environment of Hoxton, as home, work and recreation; as public space and as capital waiting to be realized.