Limelight: Saturday night

Limelight on ice

2012-02-21T09:10:00.000-08:00

We finally put the snapshots for Calgary online (see bottom left of this page).
Here's some of the action of that night:

the show is on

2012-01-13T09:03:00.000-08:00

Last night we installed Limelight on the ice rink in Down Town Calgary, a nicely straight forward install and as soon as the light was on the show started! The official first night is tonight but we couldn't resist snapping some of the action, so here's a couple of pictures before we left. With a low of minus 12 predicted for tonight, it's a fairly nice night ahead.

Limelight in Calgary

2012-01-11T13:15:00.000-08:00

Limelight will be in Olympic Plaza this week end as Part of High Performance Rodeo, if you feel like coming and dancing (or running, singing, skating, playing, ... ) in the spotlight or just watch the reactions, do come and join us!

High Performance Rodeo

2011-11-15T14:26:00.001-08:00

As High Performance Rodeo launched its 25th edition, we're proud to be part of this year's line up with Limelight: Saturday night. Commissioned by Calgary's Public Art Program, Limelight will be part of the High Performance Rodeo events in January and, for the first time, it will be on ice!

Miami

2011-11-07T06:28:00.000-08:00

On Saturday limelight was installed in Miami Brach for the Sleepless Night .
The night started quickly with a lot of foot traffic, soon the first performances happened with cruiser bikes, kids running to it, couples dancing, and even with a couple of light showers the show continued. One of the highlights was a tall clarinetist dressed in white with a pink hat who came and did a short number in the spot light, magical.
Pictures soon!

Limelight in the limelight

2011-10-20T01:15:00.000-07:00

On the first night of Limelight in Salford Quays, the BBC One Show came around to do a nice wee piece on the installation.
You can have a look at it on iplayer if you're in the UK (or you might know ways around from abroad) here until the 25th October.
It starts about 17mn in

Salford Quays

2011-10-19T07:29:00.000-07:00

Tonight is the last night of Limelight in Salford Quays.
Salford University in association with CUBE invited us to bring Limelight in front of the BBC buildings in the new Media City for three nights.
Come and see us there tonight, hopefully the weather will be a bit nicer!

Toronto Nuit Blanche

2011-10-04T09:37:00.001-07:00

We just came back from Toronto where Limelight was presented at the fifth edition of the Nuit Blanche. After an installation in the pouring rain on Friday, the weather held for the event on Saturday and the crowd was amazing, the spotlight was constantly surrounded and the passers-by queued to go in, a real pleasure to watch, smilling all night.
Here are a couple of pictures and descriptions of the night gathered from the net before we upload our own pictures:

From Blogto.com

It was really nothing more than two spotlights shining down into the middle of the street at Yonge and Grosvenor, but its beauty was its simplicity. Essentially, the street corner was turned into a stage, and random people become the performers as they stepped into the light and did...well, whatever the hell they wanted. A large crowd was consistently on hand as they were treated to impromptu acts of performance art, acrobatics, and a 300+ pound man running through the light with his shirt off, screaming at the top of his lungs. B.S. Photo by Tom Ryaboi

Some of Limelight's action in this youtube clip by backformore06 starting from 2.18 untill 5.00:

from Chromewaves

Toronto Nuit Blanche

2011-09-27T08:19:00.001-07:00

Limelight:Saturday night will be in Toronto this week-end for the Nuit Blanche. "For one sleepless night experience the city transformed by hundreds of artists for Toronto's sixth annual sunset-to-sunrise celebration of contemporary art."

Limelight will be in place for Saturday on Grosvenor street, west of Yonge street.

Limelight in Frankfurt

2011-08-23T06:28:00.000-07:00

We just came back from Frankfurt where Limelight was on last week-end as part of Playing the City 3 organised by the Schirn Kunsthalle.
The light was placed in a great setting, at the heart of the city, and the shows were non stop.
Have a look at some of the pictures Cem Yücteas took for Playing the City, and the nice short film of Saturday night produced by Ursula Schmidt:

Limelight in Frankfurt

2011-08-11T01:44:00.000-07:00

Saturday after next (20th August) Limelight will be in Germany in Frankfurt am Main for Playing the city 3.

"This final edition will again be focused on public space as a venue for artistic activities involving the city and its inhabitants in a variety of ways. New actions, performances, and other participatory projects will be presented in Frankfurt day by day. The program will continue the controversial discussion on collective, free and malleable spaces, their boundaries, and the inhabitants’ involvement." Matthias Ulrich, curator of Playing the City for SCHIRN

Limelight will be in place for one night in Frankfurt Hauptwache, if you are around we would be delighted to see you.

The website www.playingthecity.de will accompany the entire exhibition venture with the latest news, pictures, videos, and a blog

Updates

2011-06-10T07:35:00.000-07:00

Finally some updates on the the next venues.
Continuing on from the great start of 2011 with Gaborone we have some really nice upcoming cities!

The next one is Frankfurt in August for Playing the city 3.
Then Limelight will be heading to Istanbul for the Biennial and Contemporary Istanbul,
Toronto for the Nuit Blanche,
Berlin for the Festival of Lights,
Prague for Tina B
and Miami for Sleepless Night.

review

2011-06-10T07:23:00.000-07:00

A nice wee article of Limelight in Frame magazine Online.

Websites

2011-05-18T07:05:00.001-07:00

Two new recent sightings of Limelight on the web:

In Public Space We Trust,
The tumblr site of Public Design Festival: "We toured the world's public spaces looking for ideas and projects to present - interventions, installations, and services that will transform the way we experience and live the city.
This is Public Design Festival's challenge: when professionals' aware and sustainable design meets the active participation of citizens, students, travellers and tourists - that's when cities can change."

And in Lightcommunity
a forum on light in its different guises.

Gaborone

2011-04-09T04:36:00.000-07:00

After an initially shy start the people of Gaborone shone in the limelight, the project will be in place again tonight at River walk next to Linga Longa.
A few first snaps from last night:

Limelight in Botswana

2011-04-07T04:15:00.000-07:00

We arrived in Gaborone, Botswana, Thursday morning at the invitation of the Maitisong festival and the British Council. Limelight will be installed tomorrow at Riverwalk from 7pm. We are very much looking forward to exploring the city and meeting some of its residents over the next six days.
Photo taken during an interview at Duma FM this afternoon.

Limelight, in Africa

2011-04-05T04:15:00.000-07:00

Botswana's Capital City, Gaborone will be hosting Limelight for two nights on the 8th and 9th of April 2011.
We are delighted and endebted to the Maitisong Festival and the British Council for bringing the project to Africa for the first time.

Limelight: Saturday night, projection

2011-01-20T03:42:00.000-08:00

Last week was the first projection of the film of the first three cities in a cinema.
A great night organised by Northern Architecture, Newcastle City Council and Side Cinema.
Side Cinema is a great little independent cinema in the heart of Newcastle with old fashion velvety seat, a perfect venue for the first showing of the film outside of Artisphere.
The projection was followed by a discussion with the public about the role and nature of public art and our relationship with shared space in cities. Some really interesting questions came up and it was a shame we had to rush of to catch the last train to Glasgow.

There is a short description of the night on the Northern Architecture website with a link to a forum discussion at the bottom.

You can see a trailer here

Trailer

2011-01-19T04:03:00.000-08:00

We finally uploaded some video. You can now see the trailer of the first series of cities on vimeo

The video is edited by Touzie Tyke.

Limelight, Улица как сцена

2010-12-01T01:41:00.000-08:00

There is a nice short review of Limelight: Saturday night by Olga Danilkina in the Design and Art News section (НОВОСТИ ДИЗАЙНА И ИСКУССТВА) of the Russian internet culture magazine lookatme.ru.

Limelight: Saturday night film in Newcastle

2010-11-23T08:23:00.000-08:00

On the 2nd December, Side Cinema in Newcastle will be screening the first presentation of Limelight's film. Hosted by Northern Architecture and Newcastle City Council, the film will be followed by a discussion on the changing nature of public art commissions.

2nd December, 6.30, Side Cinema 1-3 Side, Newcastle upon Tyne

Dancing moves

2010-11-19T06:09:00.000-08:00

A certain Dylan demonstrated some awesome dance moves in the Limelight in Kansas City.
A short version is online!:
dylan-at-sans-facon

A Simple Spotlight Turns a Street Into Impromptu Performance Space

2010-11-19T03:47:00.000-08:00

A wee review of Limelight: Saturday night installation in Kansas City in Good.

Kansas City

2010-11-12T05:02:00.000-08:00

Last week Limelight was at the Crossroads in Kansas City, Missouri, during the first friday event.
It has been one of the busiest night so far, so much so that it was difficult to take pictures with so many people in front of it!
Here is a preview of some of the night's event:

Limelight in Kansas City

2010-11-05T05:13:00.000-07:00

Tonight Limelight will be in Kansas city, MO, on W 20th st between Main St and W Baltimore Ave,. We're looking forward to see the performances.
Thanks for El dorado Architects for inviting us again to this part of the world

Limelight in Arlington

2010-10-11T05:16:00.000-07:00

Finally here are the first pictures from the installation and the first night of Limelight in Arlington, Virginia.

Limelight in London

2010-10-07T05:18:00.000-07:00

Here are a few pictures of Limelight on Kings road last night.

Limelight in London next week

2010-09-30T05:21:00.000-07:00

Next week we're taking Limelight to London.
It will take place at the junction of Kings Road and Royal Avenue, SW3.

The installation will be there from monday evening until thursday and run from around 7.30 pm until 12 midnight each night. We'll be filming and documenting on the monday and tuesday.

Hope to see you in the Limelight.

Limelight in Inverness

2010-09-17T05:24:00.000-07:00

A preview of Limelight in Inverness:

spotlight, Inverness, Art, limelight, spot, light

Limelight Newcastle

2010-09-11T05:26:00.000-07:00

Limelight in Newcastle last week end, great location on the quay side and great reactions.
This week end Limelight is in Inverness, pictures soon.

Glasgow Saturday night in the Limelight

2010-08-31T05:29:00.000-07:00

Limelight Saturday night started!
here are some pictures of the installation in Glasgow, next week end, Newcastle.

Limelight: Saturday night in Glasgow

2010-08-26T05:30:00.000-07:00

Come and be in the limelight this Friday and Saturday night!

We are bringing back Limelight to Glasgow as part of Limelight: Saturday night, a tour of the piece in 10 different cities internationally in 2010, 2011.

Limelight: Saturday night has been chosen to form part of a series of works commissioned to mark the launch of ARTISPHERE, a new cultural centre in Arlington,Virginia. Over the next 18 months we will take Limelight: Saturday night to visit ten cities, to install and record a selection of Saturday nights from streets around the world.

The edited film of the first 5 cities will be premiered on 10.10.10 at the ARTISPHERE and then intermittently on the main video wall in the cultural centre throughout 2010/11, with the additional five hours added throughout 2011.

Looking forward to see you there, singing, dancing, … or just watching.

Limelight: Saturday night will be in Glasgow form Friday 27th August as soon as the street lights come on and again on Saturday night in Candleriggs.

The next cities for 2010 are:
Newcastle, September 3rd and 4th
Inverness, September 10th and 11th
Bruxelles, October 2nd
London, October 4th 5th and 6th
Arlington, VA, October 8th, 9th and 10th