Applications

Temporary Exhibitions

Although temporary, an exhibition will usually have to operate all day every day, seven days a week throughout its life. 

With these long running hours, after only a few months operation some of the domestic equipment may have racked up enough hours to have exceeded its design life and indeed exceed running hours or terms of use specified for its warranty.

Often, temporary exhibitions may be touring, so equipment will need to be redeployed at each location and may have to operate in very different environmental conditions at each stop, often being set up without an AV specialist to hand. In other cases after its initial deployment, the equipment becomes the base stock for a particular department or gallery. In many of the museums and galleries we have visited there are countless store rooms filled with equipment used once, but unsuitable for further applications.

It seems when the word “Temporary” is used in conjunction with “exhibition” there is often a temptation to think about equipment last minute, or to make do with the cheapest, usually non-professional equipment that can be found on the nearest high street. Suitability for purpose, sustainability of the visitor experience for the duration of the show, and real value for money are often overlooked in this short sighted approach.

Working with many of Britain’s top museums and art galleries, for their temporary exhibition requirements, Integrated Circles often specify professional equipment that will not only provide a solution to the current needs, but that will be flexible enough to ensure redeployment in a number of other configurations later, ensuring real value for money and providing a positive user experience. Integrated Circles are often asked to advise, install, maintain, redeploy and augment a galleries base equipment stocks turning around successful exhibition after exhibition.

Examples of temporary exhibitions equipped by Integrated Circles..

  • Henry VIII Man and Monarch - The British Library
  • Hats – V&A
  • Fasion v Sport –V&A
  • 1968 on Record: a year of revolution - The British Library
  • Thomas Hope: Regency Designer V&A
  • The Ramayana – The British Library
  • Voices of the Volunteers – The British Red Cross Touring Exhibition
  • Combined Forces
  • Christopher Pearson’s “Willow Boughs” Animated Wallpapers – Coutts.
  • Breaking the Rules – The British Library
  • Seasons through the Looking Glass Tunnel Installation V&A
  • Blood on Paper: the Art of the Book – V&A
  • Excavating Egypt  - University College London.
  • Faith - The British Library
  • Che Guevara: Revolutionary and Icon V&A
  • Tom Gidley’s film, Trajan Reel, V&A
  • Front Page - The British Library
  • Julika Rudelius’ video Looking at the other/desire – Tate Modern
  • Agatha Christie - British Museum
  • Black British Style V&A
  • Milan in a Van – V&A
  • Liam Gillick: Annlee You Proposes – Tate Britain
  • Cinema India V&A
  • Rewind: 40 years of Design and Advertising from the D&AD Awards  - V&A
  • Time - Queens House Greenwich
  • Shhh...  V&A
  • Julia Loktev’s film Said in Passing  –Tate Modern

Example Applications