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A cleverly engineered sensory and interactive art exhibition from 30 creative and inventive national and international contemporary artists. The exhibition featured light, sound and interactive installations, photography and paintings, site-specific artwork, live performances and sculpture.
The exhibition was housed over four floors in the magnificent atmospheric venue of the Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf on London's South Bank. The element of surprise lay around every corner and intertwined within it's many rooms, intriguing light and sound installations allure you in.
The live performances of 'Visiting Hours' from puppeteer Barbara Fuchs was beautifully eccentric and wonderfully engaging. The puppets were hand crafted and created by the artist. Each performance involved audience participation and was specially catered so no two performances were the same.
David's Strang's installation 'Tiny Moments' was created from four sets of ice, microphones and lights spread across a darkened room. The lights were frozen inside a ball of ice and hung from the ceiling. Directly beneath there was a small dish with a contact microphone attached to the underside. As the ice melted, droplets of water landed in the dish. Each droplet triggered the light inside the ice to come on for a random amount of time. The sound of the droplets were amplified and resonated throughout the space. The heat from people present in the room and from the light directly influenced the melting process to create ever-changing rhythms of light and sound.
Interactive sound installation from Tine Bechs' Floating Field involved movement from the audience to create sound. A sea of helium balloons floated just above the floor, filled the room. The balloons moved and swayed as the viewer walked through triggering an array of sounds from the sound sensors connected to the base. Lots of movement created multiple sounds but as the viewer stood still the sound faded away. The audience were therefore able to create their own compositions.
The clever use of digital manipulation in photographer Rik Pinkcombe's digital prints, transformed landscaped scenes into toy like settings tricking the eye and believing the images are models instead of real places.
Site-specific installations integrated within the environment and within the many textual layers of the Bargehouse surroundings, having a sense of its previous existence within the space.
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