Mobile Porch

Artists Kathrin Boehm and Stefan Saffer are working with architect Andreas Lang to design and produce Mobile Porch. From November Mobile Porch will be a mobile and flexible special structure roaming beneath the Westway Flyover in North Kensington, London. A mini architecture in itself, Mobile Porch provides various states of engagement with the site as a multifunctional appliance.

Mobile Porch will be very eye catching as it travels the environs of the Westway. There will be many mini artists interventions in public places including high profile spots such as Portobello Market throughout this time, plus five FREE major events are planned which include guest artists, djs and performers.

Our Supporters
Mobile Porch principal sponsor is Bloomberg LP There will be a 24-hour video link up to monitors in Bloomberg offices and later in the year Mobile Porch will visit Bloomberg offices in London and run a special event for the staff. Mobile Porch will also feature in staff newsletters and calendar of events.

Other supporters include: North Kensington Amenity Trust; Goethe Institute, London and Germany and the Institute of Foreign Affairs, Germany. In addition Whitby Bird and Partners Engineers have assisted in the structural design of Mobile Porch.

Awards
Mobile Porch has been awarded a prestigious Art For Architecture Award worth £5000 from the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Commerce and Manufactures and has received a Year of the Artist Award worth £6000 from London Arts Board.

North Kensington Amenity
Trust North Kensington Amenity Trust commissioned and hosts Mobile Porch. The Trust is an award winning charity which has developed 23 acres of land under the Westway (A40 (M)) elevated motorway. The one mile strip of land runs through the heart of North Kensington, a multi cultural area with lively and creative arts and media projects, where the Trust employs 75 people and operates two multi sports facilities and manages 120 commercial and charitable properties, maintains public gardens and supports a wide range of community projects.

The Trust recently adopted a policy and strategy for commissioning public art. This policy stresses the value and importance of artists in research projects as the basis of developing both the Trust’s own programme and as a means to allow artists to fully research a site and context and develop their practise of producing work in a public location.