A pretty cool project by my childhood friend & artist Loris Gréaud
Sponsored by Performa
Schedule: Midnight on November 20-22
Location: NASDAQ and Reuter Screens
The dark abyss of the ocean is the place on Earth that we know the least about. It is populated by photoluminescent undersea “light-shows,” a behavior that inspired the concept behind French artist Loris Greaud’s ambitious new project, developed in collaboration with Performa, MIT and Carnegie Mellon. This ongoing project will launch on November 19, 2009 in Abu Dhabi with breathtaking fireworks designed by the internationally acclaimed pyrotechnicians Groupe F
(http://www.groupef.com/swffr/groupef-eng.html) that will recreate the bioluminescence of deepsea creatures, a blue monochrome of flashing lights, in the night sky. The video premiere of this elemental sky sculpture, which will be recorded in HD and 35 mm, will be displayed on the screens in Times Square as part of Performa 09. The blue fires, evoking fantasies of undersea exploration, will respond in a poetic and and mysterious way to the frenetic lights of Times Square.
(Performa is a non-profit multidisciplinary arts organization established by RoseLee Goldberg in 2004, dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in the history of twentieth century art and to encouraging new directions in performance for the twenty-first century.)
