BEAM

2022

Steel, Aluminium, Acrylic, LED

30m x 15m x 10mCommissioned by Culture Liverpool 

SIMPLICITY, BALANCE, EQUILIBRIUM

BEAM is an audio-visual exploration of the collective association of sunshine with positive emotion and warmth, we explored our complex relationship with and dependency on the Sun, a relationship which now hangs in a delicate balance due to climate change, 

A 30 metre beam of light hangs overhead - suspended in mid-air. As the audience enters BEAM, their environment is altered completely, drenched in colour and sound. For a while, everything hangs in peaceful balance. We feel joy and calm. Gradually over several minutes, light and sound intensifies and takes on an ever-increasing feeling of unease and suspense. Light, sound and tension builds until it reaches a climatic breaking point - a tip in the balance. The audience will experience a flux of joy, tension & release.

The piece inadvertently imitates the irregular lines and forms that make up the iconic architecture surrounding the Canning Graving Docks, an incredibly fascinating composition produced as the immense structures, both permanent and temporary, coalesce and cohabit in this truly remarkable location.

Accompanying the light display is a composition by electronic-music producer Corin Ileto created in collaboration with Lucid. The complex seven minute soundscape samples Vivaldi’s Four Seasons ‘Summer’, weaving the classical piece into a biomorphic composition which grows and distorts in conjunction with the heat and intensity of light.

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