Battersea Light Festival is back for its third year this year with more interactive light sculptures to be found in and around Battersea Power Station, which is one of London's newest regenerated places. Battersea Power Station sat empty for many years until it was developed, and it now contains shops and restaurants in and around the station. The Battersea Light Festival has been running for three years now, but I never got to see it last year due to the workload that I was under. This year features five installations in and around the power station.
If you want to head over to Battersea Power Station to see the light sculptures, there is still time. The light festival started on the 25th of January and will finish on the 25th of February.
"Butterfly Effect" - Masamichi Shimada: This light sculpture projection features six large butterflies in and around the fountains near the power station. They are in different poses, and the small butterfly magnified gives a sense of power and beauty at the same time.
'Cloudy Lanterns' - Mad Rhizome. These thre tree-like sculptures are actually clouds and change colour and light pattern in a subtle way, shifting glows from green to orange to red to purple and then to blue.
'Singularity' - Squidsoup: This sphere uses audio and different light patterns to depict population growth and change.
'C/C' - Angela Chong: This interactive sculpture can be used as a bench and lights in the dark. It is motion-sensored, and the different LED lights produce a rainbow of colours once interacted with.
'Lightbattle III' - Venividimultiplex: The power of energy from cycling these bikes creates light and movement. The sculpture is fully interactive and encourages visitors to go to either side of the sculpture and cycle in attempt to battle the other cyclists by using the lights to show who is winning.
'LightPiano' - Arion de Munck and Mark Ridder. Located inside the power station, this piano can be played and adjusts the colours and patterns of the cube lights on the sculpture overhead. This attempts to visualise the audio producd by the piano.
'Large Diamond' - Freerk Wilbers: Inside the power station is a large glowing crystal object that catches the surrounding light. The sculpture rotates and causes the light to shimmer and dance off surfaces.
Previous visits to the Battersea Light Festival on this blog are linked below:
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