For the twelfth consecutive year the city of Eindhoven
plays host to the GLOW Light Art Festival. A 6 kilometre route takes the visitors
strolling from installation to installation in and around the centre of the
city. This year the theme is ‘The Source’, a reference to the source of light;
ranging from lightning and man making fire to matches, lightbulbs and LED’s.
Like last year’s edition, GLOW Next has been integrated in the regular GLOW
route with a heavy focus on the NRE site (the former gas works at the head of
the Eindhoven shipping canal).
The
kinetic installation "Just because
you are a character, doesn't mean you have character" by Ivo Schoofs
(left) is now a permanent feature near the station, where the GLOW route
starts. The German collective Forum Interart created a light and sound installation
in a service street behind shops named #GLOWING. A glowing disk (right) represents
the sun at the end of this tri-part installation which aims to provide an
emotional reaction by using misters in an eerie blue light as you pass through.
This
large awning next to the Philips Light Museum (left) has been adapted for GLOW
by Ellen de Vries in collaboration with Lux Lab Realisations. ‘Don’t break the
sound barrier’ is an interactive LED grid that react to the sound below; people
were encouraged to sing in the streets and watch the lights changing overhead. In
the Regent Quarter along the Lichtstraat Har Hollands created an installation ‘De
Oorsprong’ which explores the alternative ideas on the source of light: divine
creation of thunderbolt versus electromagnetic discharges of energy.
‘Shine
like the whole Universe is yours’ is a line of a poem by the Persian poet Rumi.
It inspired Ellen de Vries and Lux Lab to create a sound and light installation
inside and outside the Fatih Mosque. The light changes with the music and shows
the mosque in various guises from introverted to extravagant, thus enforcing
the central message of the philosophic Rumi: you can be yourself and show it!
Another
project by Har Hollands (left) shows how light can change the perception of
shape and place. His ‘Light over Matter’ installation projects changing
patterns on a brutalist office tower. Businesses along the route are encouraged
to create special window displays. Some are well crafted like this example
showing an ‘Endless Love’ (middle). This year the Church of Saint Catherine had
a static projection inspired by stained glass art: ‘Windows’ by Daniel Margraf.
After
the success of ‘Step into the Light’ at
last year’s GLOW Michel Suk created a follow-up installation on the square in
front of city hall: ‘Step into the Light 2.0’. The film music of Les Mépris
accompanies changing beams of light (left) on all four sides of the space
enveloping the visitor. The children’s art projects have been a part of GLOW
for 7 years now. Over 2200 pupils aged
9-11 from 30 primary schools worked in groups on this installation “Drijflanden’
(floating lands). Cultuurstation asked Sabien Rutten to work with the children to
create a scale model of an idealised island. Their creations float on the
Dommel river.
The
NRE site is the location of this year’s student projects. NRE (Nutsbedrijven Regio
Eindhoven) was created as a public energy company in 1989 by merging several
municipal energy companies in the region. In 2010 the city of Eindhoven bought
the site after NRE was taken over by Endinet and the industrial site -since
1899- had been abandoned. ‘Switch – life transforming light’ is a series of
experimental spaces within stacked shipping containers. It is a collaboration
of Lux Lab, Rethinking and the Fontys University and St Lucas (vocational
college). ‘Lichthouders’ (light holders) is the title of an installation by
Jonas Vorwerk: three circular metal frames with changing curtains of lights
envelop the visitor. The frames (middle) recall the gas holders that once stood
here. Linking the GLOW Next projects metal drums with burning logs remind us of
one of the most primitive sources of light made by mankind.
Huize
de Laak in the Dommel river (left) is a large mansion that was home to Anton
Philips, who with his brother Gerard started the Philips Lightbulb Company. Kari
Kola created ‘Story of Light’ an installation of sound and light. LED panels,
strip lights and projections are used to create a narrative in and around the
villa. 7 student of the Fontys University of Applied Science teamed up to create
this GLOW Next project ‘Trees of Life’. Large horse chestnuts are covered in
LED strips that respond to touch and sound thus connecting the visitors with
the trees and with nature via technology.
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