Limelight in Vancouver

For its first venue in 2013, Limelight: Saturday night will be in Vancouver this week end.
We're setting up the lights tonight in 2 different places along Grandville Street. The spotlight will be happening at the same time in these 2 locations on Friday night and Saturday night.
Look for the limelight on Hastings and Grandville and 68th and Granville this week end!

And on sunday night we will have an informal evening of conversation and dialogue about Limelight: Saturday night with Bryan Newson, Public Art Program Manager for the City of Vancouver and Dr. Cameron Cartiere, Dean of Graduate Studies at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
Sunday 27th January, 17.00 till 19.00, at the Metro Theatre, 1370 SW Marine Dr, Vancouver, BC V6P 5Z9.
More info here


Hope to see you in the Limelight or at the discussion!

The installation of Limelight in Vancouver is part of chART: Public Art Marpole, a creative collaboration between Emily Carr University of Art + Design and the Marpole BIA. The project aims to support public art and community engagement through creativity and innovation. This collaboration is led by Dr. Cameron Cartiere, Dean of Graduate Studies at Emily Carr.

Limelight: Saturday Night in Vancouver is hosted by chART: Public Art Marpole, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Downtown Business Improvement Association, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Marpole Business Improvement Association and the City of Vancouver Public Art Program.

A couple of updates

After some quiet months without any posts on this blog, here are a couple of updates on some of the events we are taking part of in the coming weeks whilst continuing our work on Watershed+.

On January 17th we will be leading a conversation about innovative artist residency programs around the globe and the potential for expanded residency programming at the Lawrence Arts Center with artist Yvonne Mullock, and Lawrence Arts Center executive director Susan Tate.

The following week we'll be in Vancouver installing Limelight: Saturday night on its first venue in 2013. In partnership with Emily Carr University, the City of Vancouver, the Downtown Vancouver BIA, Limelight: Saturday night will be installed at 2 locations similtaneously

We will also take part of the 2013 Lulu Series: Art in the City on January 23rd.

If you're around for any of these events we'd love to see you.

Limelight compilation

After 12 cities visited by Limelight: Saturday night over the last 2 years, we thought it would be nice to see the action in the limelight in these different cities all together on a short video. Touzie Tyke edited a compilation of the 12 cities in this 14 minutes film, enjoy!

Limelight Saturday night from sans façon on Vimeo.

Limelight on ice

Last night we installed Limelight on the ice rink in Down Town Calgary, a nicely straight forward install and as soon as the light was on the show started! The official first night is tonight but we couldn't resist snapping some of the action, so here's a couple of pictures before we left. With a low of minus 12 predicted for tonight, it's a fairly nice night ahead.

Limelight in Calgary

Limelight will be in Olympic Plaza this week end as Part of High Performance Rodeo, if you feel like coming and dancing (or running, singing, skating, playing, ... ) in the spotlight or just watch the reactions, do come and join us!

New Year

Happy new year to all!

After a short spell over the festive period in the UK and in France, we're now back in Calgary.

The preparations for Watershed+ continue and some actions will be visible soon, watch this space!

In the pipeline for the beginning of this year is Limelight in Calgary for High Performance Rodeo where for the first time the lights will be on the ice!

Also in Spring we are excited to take part in Show Time, Choreography in Contemporary Art, where we'll develop an installation for the exhibition. The show will be at the Gl Holtegaard in Denmark. Show Time is curated by Liberty Paterson.

High Performance Rodeo

As High Performance Rodeo launched its 25th edition, we're proud to be part of this year's line up with Limelight: Saturday night. Commissioned by Calgary's Public Art Program, Limelight will be part of the High Performance Rodeo events in January and, for the first time, it will be on ice!

Nuit Blanche

We just came back from Toronto where Limelight was presented at the fifth edition of the Nuit Blanche. After an installation in the pouring rain on Friday, the weather held for the event on Saturday and the crowd was amazing, the spotlight was constantly surrounded and the passers-by queued to go in, a real pleasure to watch, smilling all night.
Here are a couple of pictures and descriptions of the night gathered from the net before we upload our own pictures:

From Blogto.com top 10 Nuit Blanche 2011 Toronto exhibits:


It was really nothing more than two spotlights shining down into the middle of the street at Yonge and Grosvenor, but its beauty was its simplicity. Essentially, the street corner was turned into a stage, and random people become the performers as they stepped into the light and did...well, whatever the hell they wanted. A large crowd was consistently on hand as they were treated to impromptu acts of performance art, acrobatics, and a 300+ pound man running through the light with his shirt off, screaming at the top of his lungs. B.S. Photo by Tom Ryaboi

Some of Limelight's action in this youtube clip by backformore06 starting from 2.18 untill 5.00:


from Chromewaves

Frankfurt

Just back from installing Limelight: Saturday night in Frankfurt for Playing the City, an event organised by the Schirn Kunsthalle.

From their website:
Playing the City—take three. From August 11 to August 25, 2011, more than fifteen international artists will occupy the inner city of Frankfurt with their actions, performances, and installations. Art will take to the street again. Playing the City 3 will focus on public space as a venue for artistic activities involving the city and its inhabitants in a variety of ways again. Each day will see new participatory projects by such artists as Tania Bruguera, Minerva Cuevas, Jacob Dahlgren, Tim Etchells, Christian Jankowski, San Keller, Kommando Agnes Richter, Levent Kunt, Eileen Perrier, Il-Chin Atem Choi, Sans façon, and Upper Bleistein. Political manifestations, demonstrations, or markets and stands specially organized by artists will help carry on the discussion on the collective, free and designable space, its limits, and not least its inhabitants' involvement.

In parallel to the activities unfolding in the city, the project team will do its work in public in headquarters set up in the Schirn—feeding the website, answering questions about the exhibition, and organizing and documenting all activities. Playing the City 3 can also be followed on the Internet as a digital extension of public space:

DIRECTOR: Max Hollein. CURATOR: Matthias Ulrich (Schirn). ASSISTANT: Clara Wörsdörfer.

The electricians really enjoyed Tristan's colour choices for the installation day.

Limelight back on tour

We arrived in Gaborone, Botswana, Thursday morning at the invitation of the Maitisong festival and the British Council. Limelight will be installed tomorrow at Riverwalk from 7pm. We are very much looking forward to exploring the city and meeting some of its residents over the next six days.
Photo taken during an interview at Duma FM this afternoon.

Limelight blog

We've finally made a separate blog for Limelight:Saturday night to make it easier to follow and not to overload this one.
Here it is: limelightontour.blogspot.com

Limelight in Kansas City

Tonight Limelight will be in Kansas city, MO, on W 20th st between Main St and W Baltimore Ave,. We're looking forward to see the performances.
Thanks for El dorado Architects for inviting us again to this part of the world

Limelight Arlington

Finally here are the first pictures from the installation and the first night of Limelight in Arlington.

Limelight London

Here are a few pictures of Limelight on Kings road last night.

Limelight London

Next week we're taking Limelight to London.
It will take place at the junction of Kings Road and Royal Avenue, SW3.

The installation will be there from monday evening until thursday and run from around 7.30 pm until 12 midnight each night. We'll be filming and documenting on the monday and tuesday.

Hope to see you in the Limelight.

Limelight Inverness

spotlight, Inverness, Art, limelight, spot, light

Limelight Newcastle

Limelight in Newcastle last week end, great location on the quay side and great reactions.
This week end Limelight is in Inverness, pictures soon.

Glasgow Saturday night in the Limelight

Limelight Saturday night started!
here are some pictures of the installation in Glasgow, next week end, Newcastle.

Limelight: Saturday night in Glasgow

Come and be in the limelight this Friday and Saturday night!

We are bringing back Limelight to Glasgow as part of Limelight: Saturday night, a tour of the piece in 10 different cities internationally in 2010, 2011.

Limelight: Saturday night has been chosen to form part of a series of works commissioned to mark the launch of ARTISPHERE, a new cultural centre in Arlington,Virginia. Over the next 18 months we will take Limelight: Saturday night to visit ten cities, to install and record a selection of Saturday nights from streets around the world.

The edited film of the first 5 cities will be premiered on 10.10.10 at the ARTISPHERE and then intermittently on the main video wall in the cultural centre throughout 2010/11, with the additional five hours added throughout 2011.

Looking forward to see you there, singing, dancing, … or just watching.

Limelight: Saturday night will be in Glasgow form Friday 27th August as soon as the street lights come on and again on Saturday night in Candleriggs.

The next cities for 2010 are:
Newcastle, September 3rd and 4th
Inverness, September 10th and 11th
Bruxelles, October 2nd
London, October 4th 5th and 6th
Arlington, VA, October 8th, 9th and 10th