2019/02/04-02/09 | Aleksandra Stratimirovic
Belgrade of Light event, organised by Belgrade Lighting Detectives, opened a new decade of activities with programme Imagine Light during the period 4th to 9th of February at KC GRAD (Belgrade, Serbia).
■Lighitng Detectives Belgrade Chapter
Belgrade of Light 2019 was held for 6 days at KC GRAD. Five artists, art groups and collectives, with their dynamic performances, installations and exhibitions played with motion, light and sound, transforming gallery at KC GRAD, into entirely different experience every night during the event.
THE BOX | Q / TI / JA by Radio.Nica
■Day 1：THE BOX | Q/TI/JA
Spectacular performance by Radio.Nica – [THE BOX | Q / TI / JA] opened Belgrade of Light 2019. The performance was inspired with “The Ray of the Microcosm” by Petar II Petrovic Njegos, and with the help of the graphoscopic alchemy, lasers, crystals and other analog sources of light, Radio.Nica was creating pure magic on the stage.
Radio.Nica is a flexible and ever-changing group of artists with different backgrounds (theater directors, designers, dramaturges, performers, circus artists etc.) experimenting with light design.
LUMINESCENCE by Incredible Bob
■Day 2： LUMINESCENCE
High quality, dense, Belgrade’s dark and Luminescence in it – a light installation by Incredible Bob. This darkness intercepted with light from various light sources, accompanied by sounds created a kind of a hypnopompic atmosphere for audience on the second day of Belgrade of Light. Incredible Bob is a Belgrade scene desperado. He walks a thin line between glitch art and show business. No matter what, Bob will continue to search for an answer to the question: What’s new in new media?
Natasa Todorovic, Leonel Kaplan, Aleksandra Stratimirovic
■Day 3：WAVES
Science & Art submerged in the performance WAVES – an experimental light and sound installation by visual artist Aleksandra Stratimirovic and Argentinian trumpet player Leonel Kaplan. Their performance was a prologue for WEAVING THROUGH THE SOLAR SYSTEM a scientific lecture of astronomer Nataša Todorović in which she explains unusual structures and movements of celestial bodies in the space.
ISKRA.KOZMA by Lansiranje
■Day 4：ISKRA.KOZMA
Young art collective Lansiranje premiered thier cosmic performance ISKRA.KOZMA. With the help of costumes, scenography, lights and music, they have taken us a step further into the world from their fantasy, in which everyone is welcome to be free, different, imaginative… After a successful launching into this weird world, the performance grew into a party.
The basis of the Lansiranje consists of four femaliens but in fact, the crew is made up of everyone involved in the creative process, especially those who love to experiment with light, sound and contact with the unknown.
POLITICS OF RENDERING by Mark Brogan
■Day 5：POLITICS OF RENDERING
Exhibition “Politics of Rendering” by artist Mark Brogan is a photo-wallpaper on a 16-meter long wall of the KC Grad gallery. The image on the wallpaper presents a virtual space, seemingly contiguous with the actual gallery space, modelled with digital 3D architectural tools. Brogan models into his wallpaper images’optical figures’. These distort, refract and filter the virtual scenes before and in which they stand. In a way, they endow the digitally composed scenes in the photo-wallpaper images with a painterly element.
Workshop SHIMMERING
■Day 6：SHIMMERING
Workshop for children Shimmering is without of doubts the most cheerful and the most lovable part of Belgrade of Light. Once again, the kids were creative and imaginative and we played together with colors, lights and shadows with the help of the overhead projector and slide projectors. Even the parents joined Shimmering and created together with the kids and us because it was so much fun.
Workshop SHIMMERING
■Day 7：LIGHTSCAPES
LIGHT WALK
Belgrade of Light 2019 was closed with LIGHTSCAPES open discussion organized by Belgrade Lighting Detectives. As the first activity of the event Belgrade Lighting Detectives organized LIGHT WALK through Belgrade, so we shared our impressions from the walk at this discussion. Our guests were also representatives of the Center for the Promotion of Science who presented the new project: European Artificial Intelligence Laboratory – AI Lab.
ISKRA.KOZMA by Lansiranje
ABOUT BELGRADE OF LIGHT
Belgrade of Light is a non-profit event dedicated to the development and promotion of the culture of light. Ever since its founding in 2008, the goal of the event has been to assemble in Belgrade and in Serbia prominent international and local individuals and groups and to open an inspiring new chapter in approaching light – whether it concerns an artistic expression and design, energy saving or simply identity of a city and visions of a brighter future. By organizing exhibitions and art interventions in urban areas, educational workshops, lectures and programs for children and youth, Belgrade of Light has built a reputation of an event that, by employing light technologies, develops authentic creative and experimental practices and, through its program content, establishes platforms for an open debates on lighting and light.
BELGRADE LIGHTING DETECTIVES
So far, Belgrade of Light has had the opportunity to host numerous experts in the fields of architectural lighting design, science and art. They include people from Belgrade and Serbia but also those from many other cities and countries – Japan, Singapore, USA, Germany, Sweden, France, Denmark, Slovenia, Spain, Italy, Switzerland. International connections have also been established in cooperation with educational institutions, which brought student participants from Japan, China, Chile, Greece, Tunisia, India, Brazil and Romania, to our experimental workshops. Through presentations and exchange of experiences Belgrade of Light has forged close relations with organizers of prominent European light festivals, particularly with the Lighting Guerrilla Festival from Ljubljana and light festivals from Lyon, Tallinn and Eindhoven.
THE BOX | Q / TI / JA by Radio.Nica
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