Shadowgrounds Left Hall

Shadowgrounds Right Hall

Two large scale works made for Factory Light Festival in 2020, in a former underground water reservoir in the vicinity of Semsvannet in Asker, Norway. The reservoir consists of two large halls (500m2 each), with a separate staircase to descend into the two spaces.
As with my other site specific installations the works were created in and for the space. There were three qualities of the space that defined how I developed the works: The location (in the forest, underground, how you enter the space by first ascending then descending), the symmetric grid of pillars, and the long reverb of the sound.

The left hall consisted of two pieces that coexisted:
Three shadow movers were mounted in the ceiling in a diagonal through the space.
Each shadow mover consists of point of light that moves mechanically up and down, and a black disc with a small hole that is suspended below the light. This causes a circular shadow to grow and shrink on the floor.
Rings of clear acrylic were mounted onto some of the pillars, with a LEDstrip mounted on the inside rim of the acrylic, circling around the pillar. Associated with the motion of the light was a tone being played back. Because of the long reverb in the space a short single tone fills the space.

The right hall consisted of a track of LEDstrip placed on the floor of the hall following the outline of the space with the lights pointing inwards towards the center of the hall. Two pulses of light travelled in opposite directions around the track, animating the space with the shadows of the pillars. A very low frequent sound pulse filled the space.
It was a very dark space so the only way to document it was by taking still images.
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