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Pic: Copenhagen Light Festival
Pic: Hans Christian Riss
Pic: Hans Christian Riss
Pic: Jonathan Ki Lindhult & Sara Ki Noguera Plans
Interconnection Denmark Interconnection is a light art installation that immerses visitors into a magical forest, abundant with bioluminescent mushrooms. Created for Copenhagen Light Festival by Sara Ki Noguera Plans and Jonathan Ki Lindhult, the installation has been designed to emphasise the beauty of these fungi, and the open possibilities for exploring bioluminescence as a new, sustainable light source that could one day be used to illuminate the parks of our cities. Sara Ki Noguera Plans is an artist that is currently working on a series of installations that call for action towards preserving and taking care of the planet. Interconnection is one of these, and comprises a forest of 400 small, illuminated mushrooms, alongside two larger mushrooms, standing at 1.2-metres and 1.5-metres high respectively. While walking through the bioluminescent wonderland, visitors are accompanied by experimental music, created for this special
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installation by sound artist Anton Helmersson. The entirely handcrafted installation combines different disciplines to create a magical experience that has been designed to awaken the audience’s interest in the mysterious world of the fungi kingdom, which is essential to life on Earth and could hold the key to our future. Sara Ki Plans explained: “Fungi, the greatest survivors in the planet, play an important role in keeping our forest alive, offering medicinal properties and developing an underground web, the so-called “wood-wide web”. This subterranean social network is nearly 500 million years old, and allows plants, trees and surrounding spices to be harmoniously connected, exchanging nutrients within a symbiotic relationship.” copenhagenlightfestival.org