Gossamer Fog’s XP+10 spreads 40-plus artists across 24 sites
Ten years of showing game engines as art earns the Deptford gallery a 48-hour weekender, plotted through a personalized interactive map.
The save-the-date Gossamer Fog posted in August now has a a name: XP+10 / A Decade of Delusion, a tenth-anniversary weekender running October 9–11 across London—more than 40 artists, performers and musicians spread over 24 locations, from artist-run galleries and grassroots venues to what the gallery calls unexpected off-site spots. A limited run of £20 early-bird tickets is on sale now; the full lineup lands in the coming weeks.
This earns a calendar entry because the format is game-shaped from top to bottom. The weekend plays out as one evolving 48-hour piece, Friday night to Sunday night, with timed experiences and encounters, and every visitor navigates it through a personalized interactive map—a quest log for Deptford and beyond. The framing text promises that “the art world and the unreality of contemporary life slide into strange terrains.” The program is developed and curated with artist Philip Speakman, with Arts Council England support.
Gossamer Fog has spent its decade as one of the few London galleries to consistently hang game engines, simulation, and virtual-world work as art rather than novelty, which is why the lineup announcement—not this save-the-date—will be the real story. I have loved the city-as-playspace form since an AR game turned the Barbican Estate into one a decade ago; XP+10 reads like that idea grown up and handed a map of the whole city. Watch for the program; we will.
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