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06/09/2019
RIFT PRESENT MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
As part of our ‘Kaleidoscope presents…’ series, we welcome RIFT into our basements for a special performance of Midsummer Nights Dream.
For the first time in the 150 year history of Alexandra Palace, its basements will be opened for a theatrical performance by immersive theatre mavericks, RIFT.
RIFT have produced Shakespeare in unusual locations for the last ten years, most notably; The Tempest over six months from an East London Shop, and Macbeth, overnight at the Balfron Tower in Poplar. These interpretations use formal experimentation to lay their plays bare and explore them from the inside out. Midsummer Night’s Dream is no different, RIFT utilise the cavernous atmosphere of the basement spaces to create a liminal dream space that is their setting for the play. Beginning in a 1930s film studio on the eve of the first TV broadcast, we are thrust into a shared unconscious as we delve into the forest at the heart of Midsummer Night’s Dream where lovers, fairies and actors are all enchanted. Join us this September for this historic opportunity to see Alexandra Palace and Shakespeare in a way you have never seen before.
Astounding … A triumph … subtle, slick.
Today I went to watch this immersive drama. I really enjoyed the environment and performance. They combine the two things together very closely.
09/09/2019
Research Light
SKALAR – Art Installation and Performance at Kraftwerk Berlin
SKALAR is a large-scale art installation that explores the complex impact of light and sound on human perception. Light artist Christopher Bauder and musician Kangding Ray give an audio-visual narration of radiant light vector drawings and multi-dimensional sound inside the pitch-dark industrial space of Kraftwerk Berlin. By combining a vast array of kinetic mirrors, perfectly synchronized moving lights and a sophisticated multi- channel sound system, SKALAR reflects on the fundamental nature and essence of basic human emotions. With its titular Turmoil theme, CTM Festival 2018 sets the perfect environment to launch the artistic venture of SKALAR.
Star of Bethlehem by Jayson Haebich
This ethereal star is created using two laser projectors, set high up in the Cathedral's roof, directing light onto a transparent mesh to form the image. The Star of Bethlehem appears as a morphing geometric shape, moving slowly and gracefully across the space.
17/09/2019
Liliane Lijn
FEMINISM AND REPRESENTATIONS OF THE FEMININE
Being a woman installs you so totally in your body that you could do two things: You could say ‘yes I am body and I’m proud of it’ or you could say ‘I’m mind! Forget the body.
Liliane Lijn
Liliane Lijn’s time in Paris also led to an interest in feminism.
When she arrived in Paris she found that there were very few visible women artists. She describes an atmosphere where women were not taken seriously or considered professional as artists.
In reaction to this, Lijn began to explore ways of representing the feminine in art.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Another important influence in Liliane Lijn’s work is her passion for science and technology.
In 1962 Lijn began to experiment with rotating lenses and projectors.
She created lenses with water and thick blocks of Perspex to refract and reflect light in new ways, describing the physics of light and materials as ‘pure poetry’.
Her sculpture Liquid Reflections 1968 mirrors the movement of particles and planets.
Liliane Lijn continues to make art that asks us to focus and think about things in a new way.
Science can be poetry. Language and visual art can overlap. The feminine can be expressed in relation to mind as well as body.
Through her work the artist creates a visual space in which we can pause, be aware and look at things ‘with a different eye’.
If a work of art makes you aware, and wakes you up, enlightens you, then it’s given you the best thing it can give you and everything else will come afterwards. -Liliane Lijn
25/09/2019
Stephen Willats (born 1943 in London) is a British artist. He lives and works in London.
Stephen Willats is a pioneer of conceptual art. Since the early 1960s he has created work concerned with extending the territory in which art functions. His work has involved interdisciplinary processes and theory from sociology, systems analysis, cybernetics, semiotics and philosophy.
