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FESTIVALS OF LIGHT / LUMIERE, DERRY-LONDONDERRY, NORTHERN IRELAND design file
Born out of her desire to collaborate with a painter, Elaine Buckholtz spun and extracted the warm colours of van Gogh’s ‘Night Café’ and projected them in light. ‘Spinning Night in Living Colour’ is an ex- ploration in painting with light, a journey in-between two mediums, the second medium being the music of Béla Bartok. “Once I had seen the projection, I started to think about a score for it, because I thought it would be more conducive to experiencing the work,” Buckholtz says. “I really loved Béla Bartok’s music, so I used that as a starting point and then slowed the music down. Everything is slowed down, the spinning is slowed down, and the music is slowed down to about half of its speed.” Buckholtz worked with composer Floor van de Veld, who scored the music while look- ing at the artwork, before taking Bartok’s style and then adding layers. “I chose van Gogh because I really, really love the colour sensibility of his work, not because he was van Gogh,” says Buckholtz. ‘Night Café’ is a very warm painting, the
Elaine Buckholtz’s ‘Spinning Night in Living Colour’ brought the warmth of van Gogh’s paint shades to a Derry car park.
colours appearing to emanate off the billboard screen. “I considered others,” she adds, “mostly post-impressionist painters, which is interesting, because those painters were experimenting, moving from rep- resentational to a more emotional base of consciousness in painting and in some ways our intentions are aligned.” This was the first time ‘Spinning Night in
Living Colour’, had been installed outside of San Francisco, the artist’s base, and the first time the piece had been displayed in the open air. However, the artist had al- ways had a fantasy of displaying the piece on a billboard, something Helen Marriage at Artichoke immediately recognised it would be perfect for.
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CHANGE YOUR STRIPES CLEARY CONNOLLY
Staged on the façade of the Derry Credit Union (the former Stardust Dance Hall) in the Bogside, Change Your Stripes was composed of black and white stripes, which were projected onto the wall, rippling across the building, distorting and changing as people jumped up and down in front of it. Originally conceived for display in the Pompidou Centre in Paris, Derry was the first time that the work had been shown outdoors and on such a large scale, acting to attract people into the Bogside who might not have thought of visiting in the past.
VOYAGE NOVAK
Inspired by the whimsically romantic façade of the Austins Department Store, Voyage, a light projection work by NOVAK, brought to mind the novels of Jules Verne and all the daring adventurers who have braved the seven seas. Strung with semaphore signal flags, the building was transported sea- side, with sharks swimming in and out of window arches, all complimented by a bespoke score of hornpipe whistles and fog horns from composer Ed Carter. Novak has produced 2D and 3D motion design, as well as 4D projection mappings, for television broadcast as well as visual shows that accompany chart topping musicians.
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