DREAM AMSTERDAM 2008 - Ryoji Ikeda

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In 2008 the renowned composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda (Japan 1966) creates art projects for DREAM AMSTERDAM. Ikeda follows visual artist Spencer Tunick in 2007.

SPECTRA :: AMSTERDAM is artist and composer Ryoji Ikeda's commission for DREAM AMSTERDAM 2008; his first project for a public space and his first large-scale work pushing the creative possibilities of light to its utmost extremes.

Selected architectural features in industrial, civic and open public spaces emanate blinding white light for several hours every evening, in an unearthly, unforgettable experience. Visitors can navigate between the sites, connecting the distant points of a visceral urban constellation. Despite their scale, his light installations, like his concerts, provoke an intensely physical experience.

Very powerful white lighting devices, such as the ones used in sports stadia are installed at four selected locations in the city:

1. Vondelpark | Music Pavilion
09:00 pm - 00:00 am
(city district Oud-Zuid)

2. Van Gogh Museum | new exhibition wing
09:00 pm - 00:00 am
Paulus Potterstraat 7
(city district Oud-Zuid]

3. Westergasfabriek | Water bassins
09:00 pm - 00:00 am
Haarlemmerweg 6 - 10
(city district Westerpark]

4. Kop van het Java Eiland
09:00 pm - 02:00 am
(city district Amsterdam Zeeburg]

The installations map the city from North to South, West to East providing an intense experience to the viewers of the works. The 'colour temperature' of the light used for each of these installations has been carefully selected. Ikeda is using the purest white, causing the environment and structures in which they are installed to almost disappear or become invisible. The energy used for the light installations is generated from sustainable, recycled resources.

This new installations follows other light works presented in several unique locations; an old factory in Milan (2001), Terminal 5 of JFK airport in New York (2004), and now four open-air locations across Amsterdam (June 2008). Each installation is designed and adapted to fit the characteristic and the scale of the site, using intensely bright white light.

Trailer (c) Ryoji Ikeda | Dream Amsterdam Foundation 2008

Filmcrew
Judith de Weert, Suvi Hyvarinen, Christian Paulussen, Ernst Herstel, Sanne van Rossum and Matthias den Hartog

www.dreamamsterdam.nl

Channel: Entertainment
Uploaded: June 9, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Author: DREAMAMSTERDAM

Length: 00:00:48
Rating: 5.00
Views: 3306

Tags: art site specific intsallation light ryoji ikeda dream amsterdam jamain brigitha

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