RESPONSIVE - International Light Art Projects Halifax

//RESPONSIVE: International

Light Art Project Halifax

Anna Leonowens Gallery, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, and Dalhousie Art Gallery are pleased to present the first iteration of //RESPONSIVE: International Light Art Project Halifax, taking place this year in Halifax, Nova Scotia from October 18 to 21, 2017.

Initiated by a partnership based in Halifax and Cologne, Germany, this special four-day exhibition showcases the medium of light through interactive, responsive, and performative artworks. Light art encompasses artistic practices that work with daylight, artificial light, luminescence as a sculptural material, and light as an image carrier, and suggests a connection to video and new media art. Light-based installations demonstrate, often with minimal or non-invasive means, how architectural structures, urban spaces, and cultural sites can become powerful parts of an artwork. Using projections, digital media, televisions, fluorescents, and neons, select sites throughout downtown Halifax will be illuminated with innovative light art compositions.

The RESPONSIVE art bridge between Halifax and Cologne has been created by Halifax partners and Project Co-Curators Melanie Colosimo (Director of Anna Leonowens Gallery at NSCAD University), Sarah Fillmore (Chief Curator of Art Gallery of Nova Scotia), and Peter Dykhuis (Director of Dalhousie Art Gallery); and by founding Cologne partners, Project Initiator and Director, Dr. Ralf Seippel (Director of Seippel Galerie) and Artistic Director, Professor Bettina Pelz (curator). Together, this curatorial collective has organized an exciting roster of international exhibiting artists from Canada, United States, North Africa, Germany, and Russia, including Mischa Kuball, Kelly Mark, Duane Linklater, and Kurt Laurenz Theinert, and artistic duos Cuppetelli & Mendoza, Ghorbel & Mhiri, Hartung & Trenz, joeressen+kessner, molitor & kuzmin, and others soon to be announced.

RESPONSIVE exhibitions will be free to the public and open nightly from 7 PM to midnight, October 18 to 21. Halifax project exhibition sites include Anna Leonowens Gallery, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Dalhousie Arts Centre, Dalhousie School of Architecture, and outdoor public spaces at City Hall, Public Gardens, and the former Spring Garden Road Memorial Library.

The Halifax RESPONSIVE partners gratefully acknowledge the financial support of Probst & Partner Investments Ltd. of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, as Presenting Sponsors, and Supporting Sponsorship from the Halifax Regional Municipality. For more information, visit www.responsive-halifax.com.