DAWN
Site-specific installation. A multisensory experience inspired by Dawn. Project is in development
Concept
THEME
Our life is a journey. We are born and exist on this earthly realm, and eventually depart it. Our bodies dissolve. The cycle goes on. Darkness gets alive. Dawn heralds a new beginning. Dawn, the "bridge stretched across the stream of time" (Percey Bysshe Shelley, Defence of Poetry): an eternal, daily journey from darkness to light.
This project explores the potential of dawn to immerse into the power and importance of new beginnings. Dawn is inscribed into our DNA from birth. It is part of our sentimental education and has the power to catalyse the most remote regions of our imagination.
Thinking of dawn as a sensory experience, exploring the natural spectacle regulating our lives, regardless of our origins and orientation. A universal phenomenon and basic rhythm of human life - the beginning of a new day.
ARTISTIC APPROACH
The visual slow-motion choreography of color and brightness is accompanied by spoken words, ambient soundscapes and (human-made) music. Audio plays an essential part and expands the abstract nature of light.
MUSIC
David Pyke wrote thematic music for the project, eight songs on eight chapters of dawn. In March 2024, the original score was recorded by Koto player Naoko Kikuchi (Frankfurt), Shakuhachi player Reison Kureda (Tokyo ) and percussionist Enyalios Evangelou Papadopoulos (Cyprus / Cologne) at Topaz audio studio Cologne.
Artistic Team
Drawing on dozens of collaborative “Video, Music & Performance” projects, media artist and former dancer Pipo Tafel collaborates to conceive an installational approach with the musical score of composer David W. Pyke.
David has written classical orchestra music for more than 25 years. His works have been premiered internationally, e.g. Edinburgh Fringe Festival and National Theatre Melbourne.
Schedule
2024 / 25 development of light dramaturgy, protoytpe
2025 / 26 / 27 exhibition, touring
Invitation for collaboration
This approach touches on various topics in the scientific and neuroscientific topics connected with light, anatomy (ophthalmology), physiology, anthropology, (epic) storytelling, physics, engineering, architecture & lighting environments to name a few.
We invite interested individuals and organisations to get in touch with us about opportunities to explore the project as an artistic object to deepen the collaboration nature of this format. Practitioners in art mediation and art education, artists or festivals and entities beyond are welcome to consider workshops, research or talks etc. on the various themes of the project.
For further questions & collaborations, contact here.
Chapters
AUDIO
eight chapters inspiried by & about eight phases of dawn from night to day
