Grid Arts and MK Museum announce Border-Zone, 'a light, sound and performance installation designed for the museum’s new galleries.
This multi-disciplinary arts installation will be open to the public between February 7-10, 2019, with a programme of different events. It will be open to all ages and is free to attend, but tickets are required.
Border-Zone is a space where sounds and music blend and collide in 360 degrees with images transforming the space around the viewer. The installation will create immersive experiences, where the viewer is surrounded and fully engaged by moving and shifting images and soundscapes.
Images, selected to evoke memories while creating new experiences, include playful seaside vistas that dissolve into doorways leading into spaces we can never enter, overlaid with voices.
There will also be live performances set within the space. Performers include Motus Dance, keyboard artists Gabrielle Baldocci and Sally Halsey and soprano Jessica Thayer.
Border-Zone is designed to evoke dreams, memories and thoughts which sharpen our sense of reality.
Light and Sound Installations are open all four days with additional events each day:
Thursday, February 7, 6-8pm: Stantonbury International School Student Day
Students will be working in collaboration with MK-based Installation Light Artist, Filmmaker and Creative Producer Thomas D Gray, who has been creating large-scale socially engaging and interactive installations and environments for nearly 25 years.
His artworks, called Lightscapes, incorporate light, colour, sound and moving image.
Students will also be collaborating with Sound Artist Simon Bradford, a long term artist based at Westbury Arts Centre in Milton Keynes. Simon creates octophonic -ambient sound compositions. He is happiest when composing soundscapes on his self-built octophonic sound system, he takes inspiration from his muse, Brian Eno, who also approached sound production from a “non-musical” background.
Senior art & design students have created a series of projection based light installations and soundscapes to enhance and transform the gallery space.
Friday, February 8: Live Music Day, Doors open 1-8pm with performances 5-8pm
Music will come from improvising concert pianist Gabrielle Baldocci, chamber musician Sally Halsey and soprano Jessica Thayer.
Surrounded by the installations the musicians will perform as the inspiration will take them.
Saturday, February 9: Contemporary Dance Day , Doors open 1- 8pm with performances 2:30 – 5pm
Light installations are open 1-8pm with live music taking place in the installations from 5pm.
Motus Dance will perform a series of short pieces in the installation space at 2:30, 3:15, 4 and 4:45pm.
MK-based MÓTUS engages with movement for everyone and is designed to engage all ages and experience with a real interest in sited, historical and politically relevant work. Dancers will perform amongst the projections and audience with a specially created sound score.
Sunday, February 10: Light and Sound Installation Meet the Artists, Doors open 1- 6pm
A chance to visit the spaces, enjoy the installations and meet the artists, including MK-based Anna Berry and Bill Bartolotta, from Chicago.
Anna is known for creating socially- and politically-conscious work in non-gallery environments. Her piece, ‘Brexit Selfie’ reflects on how our sense of identity creates borders, psychologically, physically, and politically.
Bill composes music, and writes print copy and dialogue for live and recorded installations. It is not unusual for him to script entire experiences, print materials, floor plan, timeline, sound design, dialogue and music for performance artists and in some cases the route to deliver the visitors.
Border-Zone takes place in the museum’s new building housing two exhibition spaces. The white (light) gallery and the black (dark) gallery will be fully animated and transformed for the event.
Light Gallery – ‘No Man is an Island’
The main space with content from 24 projectors will create a large-scale 360 degree virtual world that evolves around the viewer as they move through the space enhanced by a octophonic soundscape that combines music, sounds and voices.
Dark Gallery – ‘Light Pool’, ‘Under Currents’ and ‘Brexit Selfie’
The second gallery contains multiple installations that people can enter and explore including ‘Light Pool’, ‘Under Currents’ and Anna Berry’s interactive installation ‘Brexit Selfie’.
The work has been supported by funding from MK Community Foundation with additional support from MK Museum and Inter-Action MK.
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