Katie Paterson ‘Streetlight Storm’
Streetlights that flicker in time with storms.
Conceptual artist Katie Paterson has created Streetlight Storm on Deal Pier, Kent running from December 21 - January 30, 2010.
The amazing light installation, commissioned by Vauxhall Motors under the brief 're-inventing British classics', will flicker in time with actual lightning storms that are occurring around the world, received through an antenna on the pier.
Says Paterson: "I am interested in the way the ordinary and the otherwordly intersect, and much of my work uses everyday technologies from doorbells to record players and connecting with vast and intangible phenomena such as dying stars and the moon. I hope the work's universal content will ignite the imagination of many."
There will be a short talk from the artist at the pier at 4.30pm on December 21.
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Katie Paterson ‘Streetlight Storm’ (text) by Shelley Lee Jones is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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