“How did i get here?”
Circus Family as a design studio has focussed on creating motion graphics and moving content over the last twelve years. Very often combined with bespoke techniques to display that graphic content. From that background we started to develop more and more the physical design and technical development for displaying that content ourselves. Out of love and enthusiasm for those projects our wish grew to keep developing towards more autonomous work. This wish became a reality in 2016 with our submission for the SXSW Art Program in Austin Texas. That installation and concept we kept on developing and experimenting with. Now for the first time on display after travelling the US. We had been thinking about the idea of our own exhibition for some time as we wanted to show our local network and friends this self initiated work. When we got in touch with De School this collaboration took shape and turned out to be a perfect match in aesthetic and location.
So four new light installations. Each on display in its own characteristic space within De School. An experience based on colour, light, sound and movement. Soundscapes for the work were created by producer Kubus (Bart van de Werken). The official opening was thursday October 31st 2019. The works were on display after that till early December during clubbing and restaurant hours.
Enhancing sight and increasing visibility, light is the sensory gateway into our physical experiences as humans. The installations on display in this first solo exhibition by Circus Family evoke and question the emotive, aesthetic and sublime qualities of light and color. A modular system of graphic shapes set in various configurations. Through these dynamic compositions, subtle movements cause unpredictable reflections and sounds.
Circus Family is very proud to present these works within the context of De School: a club as a place open to multiple perceptions of time and space. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. It is only human presence to interrupt a cycle that is otherwise recurring. A modular system of rigid shapes that adapts itself to it’s location while at the same time it’s interrupting its surroundings, only by human presence. The serene everyday broken by reflections and disturbing sounds.
“Time isn’t holding up”
Colour gradients pour into each shape, whilst the mirrored surfaces start reflecting light – all to the orchestra of this encompassing soundscape created by Kubus (Bart van de Werken) . This installation invites visitors to become part of something. An immersive light experience in which the audience influences the intensity, sounds and colour palettes simply by approaching, moving around in and between the large geometric shapes of the installation.
Copyright 2019 Circus Family. All soundscapes by Kubus (Bart van de Werken). Parts of this exhibition were originally developed in partnership with SXSW Festival, Dutch Culture USA and Creative Industries Fund NL.
“Same as it ever was”
When standing alone with no audience, the object glows dimly as if asleep. Yet when visitors approach, the installation slowly comes to life. Motivated by but not a direct reflection of this human interaction. Soundscape by Kubus (Bart van de Werken)
“Letting the days go by”
A softer experimental approach contrasting the dominant, reflecting surfaces. Soundscape by Kubus (Bart van de Werken)
“Into the blue again after the money’s gone”
This installation translates digital noise patterns into an analog array of rods turning lights on and off. Digital to Analog.
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