OPG Winter Festival of Lights 2019|2020

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IMPULSE NOVEMBER 16 TO DECEMBER 21 The installation of Impulse is an interactive work comprising a series of 15 seesaws with light and sound that changes when in motion. The seesaws form units of light and sound that can be activated by the public to create an ever-changing composition.

By playing on the seesaws, you create a dynamic light and sound wave giving a pulse of warmth to the winter's short days and dark nights.

Impulse embodies ideas of serialism, repetition, and variation to produce zones of intensity and calm. It is an ever-changing urban event and an instrument in which the public becomes the musicians and artists.

Creation and execution: Lateral Office and CS Design Production: Quartier des Spectacles Partnership, Montreal, Canada Sound design: Mitchell Akiyama Fabrication: Generique Design

LIGHT A WISH

Make a wish before you blow the fluffy dandelion seeds into the air - everyone knows this old game!

Light a Wish represents the moment the seeds disperse in the air, waiting to take your wish with them into the world. With this work, the Israeli architects of OGE Group show our good intentions that we quietly release and (hopefully) encounter again in the future. In this way, the illuminated dandelion puffballs are carriers of our deepest desires and dreams.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

OGE GROUP Israeli artist Merav Eitan (1974) and German artist Gaston Zahr (1975) are trained architects. While Eitan studied at the art academy in Jerusalem, Zahr studied at the Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus. In 2007 they founded the design studio OGE Group in Haifa and became Artistic Directors of the Jerusalem Light Festival. OGE Group has designed several light artworks, which all aim to evokeLight anA Wish emotion from the viewer in a playful way. Sometimes the artworks do that through an interaction of sorts and other times by recalling memories and experiences.