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Matt Waring [d]arc media What
I am sure that there is a technical term for it that someone more educated than myself can inform me of, but I think of it as the “space between the light” – the liminal space that appears where a beam of light “splits”.
Where
This effect is something that you have probably seen at most live music shows or club nights that you have been to. It is also something that features in the work of light artist Anthony McCall.
When
I first became aware of this “phenomenon”, if you can call it that, when watching Queens of the Stone Age at Glastonbury Festival in 2011 – a good six years before I even entered the world of lighting. I was completely mesmerised by the effect, and have hoped to see it at every gig I have been to since.
Why
I am sure it has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that by that point I was five days into a threeday music festival and in no way feeling the effects of such an experience, but I found this particular lighting effect, and the way that the air interacted with this “void” of light to be totally entrancing. It felt like a portal to another world, or a glimpse into the afterlife. Like I say, absolutely nothing to do with the “side effects” of being at Glastonbury Festival… www.arc-magazine.com
“And everything and nothing, is in the space between all things.” The Space Between All Things, Idlewild
Image: Justyna Bork
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