Tag: installations

Light Matters: Europe’s Leading Light Festivals

In mid autumn, when the nights get longer in the northern hemisphere, we encounter numerous light festivals. And indeed, within the last ten years, more and more light festivals have globally emerged. The reason for the success of light festivals is simple, as the German curator Bettina Pelz concludes: “It’s actually fairly easy, because whenever you do something with light in cities in the night, then people do come. If you do it good, they come twice.”

As Pelz points out, light is an apt medium for evening events, since it easily attracts people. Communities have discovered the potential of lighting for city marketing, and the closer they plan their date to Christmas, the more they merge their illumination with the festive blinking lights of commercial Christmas markets.

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Isaac Julien

Ten Thousand Waves
2010
9-channel video installation, 49:41 min
On view now at MoMA in the The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium

Pulse Art & Technology Festival Starts January 29

A multisensory mix of installations, performances and workshops, the PULSE Art & Technology Festival presents pioneering, future-looking art expression at the Jepson Center for the Arts.

Running from Jan. 29 through February 2, the FREE, five-day celebration invites the public to participate in amazing interactive art experiences and hands-on workshops.

Art + Suburbs: Valley Homes Become Video Screens

A “multi-channel video installation” reimagines the Eichler Balboa Highlands neighborhood.

Giving video art its due

Two exhibitions in Wellington show that even in the age of YouTube video art can be powerful, exciting and relevant.

Film has become such a core mode of storytelling in our lives that it deserves lots of different modes of public presentation.

A welcome new community model is the People’s Cinema in Wellington’s Manners St, where the fare is as diverse as those who want to use it.

Providing darkened space for moving-image art downstairs and a cosy screening room upstairs, different groups have control over what they choose to watch together and why.

With images streaming out of my computer desktop, galleries have also got to work harder to entice us into moving image shows.

Why should I hike up to the Adam Art Gallery to see Jack Smith’s classic 1963 sexually transgressive comedy Flaming Creatures when a quick search finds it on YouTube?

Answer: Because the Adam excels in its installations, and this work’s racy menage a trois grouping with contemporary artists Jacqueline Fraser and Bill Henson promises a dark experiential frisson for both head and heart.