Dazzling line-up revealed for Lumiere spectacular
It’s been announced which artworks will dazzle visitors to this year’s Lumiere spectacular.
The bi-annual light show returns to Durham City for its 10th anniversary, which will wow people for four nights from November 14-17.
Highlights will include a giant slinky, a piano-powered projection, a monumental snowdome and a fog sculpture cascading across the River Wear in striking installations from artists as far afield as Canada, Japan and New Zealand, as well as homegrown talent.
For the most ambitious edition of Lumiere yet, a selection of favourite artworks from previous festivals will sit alongside a host of new commissions by international artists and fresh talent from the North East.
In total, there will be 37 artworks spread across the city, which visitors will be able to navigate using a new Lumiere app.
Created by Artichoke, the festival is free to attend but tickets will need to be obtained. Artworks will include:
Stones by artist collective Tigrelab Art (Spain) is a shape-shifting video-mapped projection onto the facade of Durham Cathedral, that visitors can change using stone tablets.
Inspired by the coloured tiles that characterise so many Portuguese cities, Human Tiles by Ocubo (Portugal) will transform the exterior of Gala Theatre & Cinema into a kaleidoscope of projected patterns created in response to the movements of visitors’ bodies in real-time.
Geometrical Traces by Javier Riera (Spain) will illuminate the city’s riverside tree canopies in a mesmerising new work that draws upon mathematical patterns found in nature.
Deepa Mann-Kler (UK) brings her glowing balloon dog sculptures Neon Dogs previously seen at Lumiere
London, as well as a new work similarly inspired by pop culture.
Shoefiti draws upon the urban phenomenon of shoe tossing, with over 150 illuminated shoes strung along Durham’s streets in a playful nod to this mischievous practice.
Squidsoup (UK)’s extraordinary immersive work Wave – featuring 500 orbs of light and 500 voices – comes to the festival direct from its first exhibition at Burning Man in the Nevada desert earlier this year.
Piano players of all ages will have the chance to see their music-making transformed into shape-shifting patterns on the facade of Rushford Court for Keys of Light by Mr.Beam (Netherlands).