Night Light blankets SOMArts in luminous art installations, including 7 audiovisual performances, and digital and cinematic projections by more than 30 artists. The artists in Night Light converge to create a luminous, immersive experience, offering contemporary light-based work that ranges from technically intricate and abstract to deeply personal and narrative. Once a year 800 people gather under the cover of darkness to meet and discover time-based art that is not relegated to a stage or a flat screen on a gallery’s white wall.
Now in its fourth year, Night Light utilizes SOMArts’ post-industrial indoor space and grounds, including the garden path, street-side loading bay, theater, Bay Gallery and Main Gallery to display a multitude of applications of light in art. This year the spectacle includes two new curatorial subsections—Signal Flow and Projected Personae— in addition to five live performances.
Signal Flow, co-curated by Matea Fish, Justin Hoover and Elia Vargas and on view only for the evening of Night Light, centers work about information flow, water and new visual landscapes. Visitors can explore self-lit sculptures and both analog and digital projections within the Bay Gallery and the outdoor environments of SOMArts.
Projected Personae, curated by Justin Hoover, debuts during Night Light and remains on view in the Main Gallery through August 16, 2014. Projected Personae is an exhibition about the self as surface and the construction of identity through performance, cultural drag and bodybuilding that culminates with Performance Art Workout.
Signal Flow Exhibiting Artists:
Chelsea Akita
Christine Ancalmo
Jeremiah Barber
Dalius Baranauskas
Jesper Carlsen
Paul Clipson
Gail Dawson
Caitlin Denny
Alan Ellison
FICTILIS
Mary Franck
Chen Hangfeng
Luke Judd
Kadet Kuhne
Andy Puls
Jeff Ray
Solarist Project
Maya Smira
Eric Staller
Elia Vargas
Andrew Voogel
Jiang Zhuyun
Projected Personae Exhibiting Artists:
Heather Cassils
Jen Cohen
Sofía Córdova
Fernanda D’Agostino
Kiki Hunt
La Chica Boom aka Xandra Ibarra
Baby Barbarella aka Krisztina Lazar
Ileana Tejada
Kelsey Thorne
Sonni aka Linda Trunzo
Miami aka Cristina Victor
Pamela ZLive Performances during Night Light:
Jen Cohen
Sofía Córdova
Jeff Ray’s Taser Island
Mary Franck & Kadet Kuhne
PINE & Elia Vargas
Andy Puls
Pamela ZCost: $12
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
BREATHING is a movement from Carbon Song Cycle (a inter-media chamber work by composer/performer Pamela Z and visual artist Christina McPhee). The work was originally written for voice & electronics, bassoon, viola, cello, percussion, and tape. This is a solo version performed by the composer (with just voice, processing, and tape), recorded at a 3/13/2014 duo concert with Joan La Barbara as part of the 2014 ROOM Series. Pamela Z is using a gesture controller (designed and built by Donald Swearingen). © 2013 Last Letter Music (ASCAP)