Guest artist / Pete Thornley

Pete Thornley’s latest installation, ‘Floating Light’, is to take place on Saturday, April 5 at the Butts Theatre Courtyard Space, Albany Road, Coventry.

As usual with Pete’s installations, the event will take place on one night between 9 and 10pm. The installation will feature huge solid light projections and a true surround-sound soundscape by acoustic artist, Lol Mitchell (Flip Shriner).

Pete says, “The installation has taken 2 years work and involves some complicated technical visual and aural elements”.

“I hope the piece will evoke some sort of dislocation in the viewer; certainly the soundscape by Lol creates an atmosphere which is akin to a meditative state”.

Lol says, “As with the other installations I have worked on with Pete, ’Floating Light’ is a work I am pleased to be involved with”.

As yet untested, the installation will be an experience for Pete as well as the viewer, which is part of the ethereal dislocation he tries to attain with his large-scale projection works. Previous works – ‘10 Decades’, 2002, ‘Refugee’, 2004 and ‘Shed’, 2006, contributed to a body of work, some of which creates an ethereal claustrophobic atmosphere. This work relies on participants’ memory of the events rather than any tangible physical record, other than photographs and the soundscape. This is in accord with the intangible nature of such events historically, eg the work of Yves Klein, Stewart Brisley, Fluxus and other contemporary installationists, including Tracy Emin, Bill Viola, Anthony McCall and many filmic and video experimentalists and the creators of urban projection events.

Contact petethornley@googlemail.com

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