re(Stretch) - four miles of elastic at Birmingham Hippodrome

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Take a multi-sensory journey with Sophia Clist's creation

(re)Stretch is the Birmingham Hippodrome's latest free interactive artwork installation.

Created by artist Sophia Clist over a ten year period, the sculpture is a screen made of hundreds of strands of fine elastic under tension, stretching from wall to wall.

Visitors can touch and move in and out of the elastic (all four miles of it).

The structure responds by moving, vibrating and emitting sounds.

There are no instructions about what to do, you make your own multisensory journey.

Sarah Allen, Creative Programme Manager at the Hippodrome explained that the artist wanted to create a sculpture all about touch and interactivity.

"This is all about the viewer becoming a performer as they interact with the sculpture," she said.

(re)Stretch has been shown nationally and internationally at festivals, theatres and public spaces, but this is the first time it has appeared in Birmingham.

(re)Stretch is on display at The Patrick Centre (Birmingham Hippodrome's studio theatre on Level 2) on Saturdays from 12pm-5pm and 1 hour before and during the interval of all weekday and Sunday performances of Dick Whittington, until Sunday, 16 January.