{"id":6349,"date":"2009-11-17T04:09:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T03:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=6349"},"modified":"2009-11-17T04:36:26","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T03:36:26","slug":"lumiere-at-durham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/11\/17\/lumiere-at-durham\/","title":{"rendered":"Lumiere at Durham"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Durham Cathedral as it appeared this weekend as a part of the four-day Lumiere art event<\/a> which illuminated the cathedral’s already spectacular location<\/a> with projections and light installations. Flickr has a wide selection of photos<\/a> documenting the various stages of the event.<\/p>\n

The fluorescent bulbs on the banks of the Wear would have dazzled even Dan Flavin, the American founding father of light art<\/a>. Durham’s river was a riot of neon and sci-fi lasers. What Flavin would make of this display is another matter. Light art has come a long way since the industrial minimalism that saw syncopations of strip bulbs arranged in white gallery spaces. Contemporary artists are using low-emission technology to produce site-specific work on a grand scale. Unlike the postwar modernists, their work has a social function: to transform cities. They are engineers of public space and sculptors of civic identity.<\/p>\n

Durham’s Lumiere is part of a growing international movement. The organisers, Helen Marriage and Nicky Webb from the London-based events company Artichoke<\/a>, loosely modelled the event on an annual F\u00eate des Lumi\u00e8res<\/a> in Lyon (5\u20138 December), a festival that hosts 80 light installations and attracts over 4 million tourists every year. (More<\/a>.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Durham Cathedral as it appeared this weekend as a part of the four-day Lumiere art event which illuminated the cathedral’s already spectacular location with projections and light installations. Flickr has a wide selection of photos documenting the various stages of the event. The fluorescent bulbs on the banks of the Wear would have dazzled even … Continue reading “Lumiere at Durham”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,2,41,15],"tags":[288],"class_list":["post-6349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-sculpture","category-technology","tag-rune-guneriussen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1Ep","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}