24 August 2019
WHITE NIGHT MELBOURNE 2019
Reimagined
Melbourne CBD
This year, White night Melbourne festival held in the end of August. My two favourite spots were 'Sensory Realm' in the Treasury Garden and the 'Spiritual Realm' in the Carlton Garden.
Pollution Pods and Synapse were my favourite installations in 'Sensory Realm'. Pollution pods are five large domes represent polluted environments of cities globally. Started from Tautra in Norway, breathing in clean smelling air and then continuing through to the cities of London, New Delhi, Beijing and São Paulo which between them suffer from some of the lowest air quality in the world.
Synapse is an interactive installation with the combination of music and lighting programming to create a multi-sensory experience. It was an experience of the power of synapse through sound and light in exploring each of the brain’s major functions: consciousness, emotion, memory, speech, motion, and audiovisual. It was an interesting and fun experience!
Waterlight Graffiti is made up of a wall of LED lights that illuminate when they come into contact with water and go dark as it evaporates.
The Cocoon is is a portal to help facilitate connection and growth, and a reminder that we are not alone – we are always surrounded by people and possibilities. Where the community come together relax, recline, and rebuild ourselves inside the beautifully illuminating woven form that gives a sense of belonging and security.
IRIS is a dynamic installation featuring a large-scale projection of a human iris. It blinks and moving around, just like a huge monster hiding itself in the water. A little creepy but I enjoyed the experience, definitely an amazing work!
Cluster is an immersive audiovisual installation which explores relationships between space, time and perception through the abstract language of light and sound.
Mad Max Fury Road at the Royal exhibition building is a world premiere event featuring some of the film’s most iconic and impressive vehicles.
Where do books come from at the State Library Victoria presented a projected animation about a journey to discover how books are made.
Dae White night & Marlene Gilson projected animation on NGV facade presents about Aboriginal Victorians with the oldest continuous cultures on earth.
