Will you make it by way of border management at Glastonbury?

First launched to Glastonbury Pageant final yr, Terminal 1 is an area designed to encourage dialog inside the midst of Worthy Farm’s temple to hedonism. Located subsequent to the competition’s big scrap metallic sculpture Carhenge, the house operates underneath the ethos of ‘No Human Is Unlawful’, offering an important commentary on the plight of migrants while additionally selling the work of a various and worldwide neighborhood of artists and performers.

Terminal 1 at Glastonbury Pageant 2025

Curated by Oriana Garzón and produced by Paula Clark, with Miguel Torres Umba returning as inventive marketing consultant and efficiency director, the central expertise inside the space is an immersive walk-through – designed to duplicate the border management expertise of migrants trying to achieve entry to the UK.

Attendees are first required to reply a query from the UK citizenship take a look at, with improper solutions sending them to the again of the queue. Those who cross the preliminary barrier are then despatched by way of three escalating cabins, the primary designed like a refugee camp, the second an set up entitled Jungle Fitness center, conceptualised by Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Wallinger, and the third a harsh confrontation with border police.

‘A part of the inventive course of at first was from my private expertise,’ Garzón, who was born in Colombia, explains. ‘After I was designing Terminal 1 with our workforce, I used to be doing the examination for the UK Go away To Stay, so we took inspiration from that. It’s a really private house for me. When the signal of Terminal 1 was hung, I used to be on the cellphone with the legal professionals submitting my papers. It was like a film; very profound.’

The signage is salvaged from Heathrow Terminal 1, whereas the bar is adorned with specifically commissioned textiles, reimagining the flags of the world in intricate, African materials. For his half, Wallinger created Jungle Fitness center across the concept of play, and the way restricted the entry for migrant kids might be to those areas of innocence.

‘I used to be interested by the youngsters in all this – those that haven’t any say and no energy. And on the identical time I used to be interested by the UN and Unicef, and a few our bodies of hope which have affect, but additionally these superpowers that try to stymy that at each flip,” he explains. ‘The set up binds this imaginative and prescient of childhood and play, with a jungle fitness center on the centre of it, however the entire thing has been occluded by a maze of chainlink fencing. I needed to make one thing that had a super of childhood, however then [contrasted by] the reality for therefore many individuals.’

Alongside the set up, Terminal 1 will host stay performances throughout the weekend and can also be house to La Linterna – a Colombian print store that will likely be live-screenprinting bespoke designs for the competition, in addition to promoting prints made on its house letterpress machines, which date again to 1860. It’s one among a number of initiatives throughout Terminal 1 that make lively contributions to bettering the lives of the communities they’re working alongside.