Under the Artistic Directorship of Iain Grandage, the 2024 Perth Festival is inspired by the theme of Ngaangk (a Noongar word meaning sun or mother). Giver of life and light, Ngaangk is the ultimate creator – rising, surely, each morning at dawn to break the still darkness of night. Ideas of light and perception, so critical to the experience of the visual arts, punctuate the 2024 Perth Festival program, across a series of projects that encourage consideration of related themes of sustainability,
growth and nourishment, and the tension between heat as both a creative and destructive force.
The iconic central glass dome within the now disused Carillon City becomes an abstracted timepiece with Rebecca Baumann’s architectural intervention Light Event. Engaging with ideas of temporality and permanence, Light Event dramatically alters the space through the application of dichroic film on the atrium windows. A dynamic material, dichroic film shifts colour when viewed from different angles, transmitting a different coloured light in the
spectrum to that which it reflects.
Bathing the interior of the dome in iridescent light, Light Event evokes an uncanny, supernatural atmosphere, bringing an element of eeriness to the dormant civic space. As the sun moves across the sky, the colour shifts and changes, transforming the building into a performative space akin to a
stage set for something to happen. Both an optical and embodied encounter, Light Event is not just to be seen, but to be felt and experienced.
Curated by Annika Kristensen (Visual Arts Curator, Perth Festival).
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Rebecca Baumann: Light EventType
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February 09, 2024 09:16 AMUntil
March 03, 2024 09:16 AMVenue
Carillon City, PerthAddress
Carillion City arcade, entrance via Hay Street mall, Perth CBD 6000