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New installations announced for Bristol Light Festival 2024
Visitors will be able to step through enormous rings of light, marvel at mirrored structures, and walk under illuminated arches in three new installations set to illuminate Bristol this February.
The installations will form part of Bristol Light Festival, an annual event which sees the centre of the city transformed into an audio-visual light experience at night for one week.
‘PULSE’, from Somerset-based collaborative partnership, This is Loop, will feature enormous rings of light made up of more than 14,000 individual LEDs as they travel through a sequence in an immersive audio-visual installation.
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Visitors will be able to travel through multiple arches in a multi-sensory experience – photo: Alan Hayes
This is Loop collaborated with audio artist Dan Bibby aka ’Weatherbrow’ to create the installation’s custom track in what will be “a five minute high intensity, tightly choreographed and fast paced audio visual journey”.
Another award-winning installation, ‘Emergence’, also by This is Loop, features a huge, mirrored structure that is completely reflective and designed to provide audiences with a new perspective of once-familiar spaces.
The third installation is from award-winning Sydney-based art practice, Atelier Sisu, featuring illuminated arches to walk through and under.
Led by Peruvian sculptor and industrial designer Renzo B. Larriviere and architectural designer and artist Zara Pasfield, the work is inspired by the intertwining of art and architecture.
Sydney-based art practice, Atelier Sisu, have created a spectacular inflated arch to walk through and under – photo: Plaster
The three new installations will be joined by the return of a visitor favourite, Swing Song – a series of swings set to music produced especially for the festival.
Each swing has a different role in an orchestral ensemble. The higher users swing, the more complex the tracks become.
Speaking about the new installations, Bristol Light Festival creative director Katherine Jewkes, said: “We are absolutely over the moon to have some many incredible artists involved with our next edition.
“This programme is starting to feel really special and is reflective of Bristol’s creative spirit.”
The festival, which runs from February 2-11, also coincides with the Winter Lights project, which has seen new street lights added across Bristol during the festive season.
These will stay illuminated from 11am to midnight each year throughout January, February and March.
Bristol Light Festival attracts over 250,000 visitors and an estimated £3.3m increase in spending in Bristol. This year, Redcliffe brewery, Left Handed Giant, is providing the official festival beer for the free event.
Main photo: Alan Hayes
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