« Skyscraper poem
Playing to the Judge »

Art Show

Was at a reading in an art gallery last night and while checking out their lighting set-up I had an idea for a way to do an art show. Hang the work like normal, but, instead of the normal lighting, the gallery should be as near to total dark as possible. When visitors arrive to view the work, they are given miner’s helmets with forehead flashlights on them. I can picture the beams moving about the gallery, the pieces with more than one viewer lighting up with more light, the show’s overall visibility shifting and changing with the way the viewer’s line of sight changes.

Tags: ,

This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 at 6:08 am and is filed under Gallery Installations, Visual, by Dan Waber. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

4 Responses to “Art Show”

  1. smd Says:
    May 29th, 2008 at 6:05 pm

    This is brilliant! I’d love to go to this.

  2. Matt Says:
    May 29th, 2008 at 8:10 pm

    awesome idea, I just read it on Kottke.

  3. Thomas Høyrup Christensen Says:
    May 30th, 2008 at 2:40 am

    I actually went to an exhibition at The Palais De Tokyo in Paris a few years ago called “Jurassic Pork II” where everybody were handed a flashlight before entering the room. The exhibition contained cartoons and sculptures and it was absolutly amazing.

    http://www.flickr.com/search/?ss=2&w=all&q=Jurassic+Pork+II&m=text

  4. Nick Thomas Says:
    May 30th, 2008 at 6:06 am

    Brilliant, but could be pretty dangerous.