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Bargehouse (Oxo Wharf) 13th -30th March 2008 Electric Blue is a cleverly engineered sensory and interactive art exhibition from over 30 creative and inventive national and international artists. Artwork has been carefully selected from all over the UK and overseas. The exhibition features light, sound and interactive installations, photography and paintings, site specific artwork, live performances and sculpture. The exhibition is housed over four floors in the magnificent atmospheric venue of the Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf on London's South Bank. The element of surprise is around every corner and intertwined into it's many rooms. The light and sound installations will lure you in and intrigue you by the artist's clever use of materials and media.
David's Strangs' installation 'Tiny Moments' is created from four sets of ice, microphones and lights spread across a darkened room. The lights have been frozen inside a ball of ice and then hung from the ceiling. Directly beneath is a small dish with a contact microphone attached to the underside. As the ice melts, droplets of water land in the dish. Each droplet triggers the light inside the ice to come on for a random amount of time. The sound of the droplets are amplified and resonate throughout the space. The heat from the light would directly influence the melting process and the random length of time of light to create ever changing rhythms of light and sound.
Tine Bechs' 'Floating Field' is an interactive sound installation using movement from the audience to create sound. A sea of helium balloons is floating just above the floor, filling the room. The balloons move and sway when the viewer walks through and triggers a sound from the balloons. Lots of movement creates multiple sounds but when the viewer stands still the sounds fade away. The audience can thus create their own compositions.
The live performances of 'Visiting Hours' from puppeteer Brabara Fuchs is beautifully eccentric and wonderfully engaging. The puppets are hand crafted and created by the artist. Each performance involves audience participation and are specially catered so no two performances are the same. Rik Pinkcombe's photography manipulation of landscape scenes are transfered into toy like settings and are displayed along with paintings and images that trick the eye and challenge the way in which we perceive. The site specific artwork integrates within the environment and within the many textual layers of the Bargehouse surroundings, having a sense of its previous existence within the space. Mentioned are only a few of the artworks showcased in Electric Blue, but each artist involved has thought beyond the idea of the average gallery experience, to take you away from the static of art and create an exhibition that is alluring, stimulating and offering truly unique experience. Curator Rita Parente We would like to thank everyone who visited the exhibition and hope that you enjoyed the show. Please feel free to read the visitors comments. Sponsored by: www.areatrade.co.uk |
David Strang
Tine Bech
Barbara Fuch
