LIGHT GRAFFITI WORKSHOP

ZRC Atrium; Sunday, 31^st May 2015, from 21.00 to 23.30

Applications are accepted until 20^th May or until all positions are filled: core@mail.ljudmila.org

 

ZRC  Atrium, Novi trg // Monday, 1^st June, at 20.00 - performance

Michael Bosanko specializes in the so-called light graffiti. The principle of this technique is based on photography, where extremely long times of exposure enable a photographic recording of movement made by bodies of light. Exposures can last up to one hour and the artist makes use of different light sources: from torches to classical lights and LED lights. The end result is a photograph that uses this medium to record the light drawing in a certain space. The inclusion of people and elements of space, around which the light drawing is designed, enables the experienced drawing artist like Bosanko to create exceptional light compositions that only need to be projected somewhere. The artist thus documents otherwise fleeting images that result from gestuality and that are hidden and invisible at the first glance.

The project is of participatory and performative character, as it requires an active involvement of the audience. The artist creates light graffiti with the audience, saves them and promptly projects them unto space. A free workshop where participants will be able to get acquainted with the basics of this technique and creative possibilities it offers will be held during the artist’s stay in Ljubljana.

 

The Welsh artist MICHAEL BOSANKO is a self-taught who in the beginning only did classical photography. He was born in Cardiff but he lives and works in South Wales. At the beginning of the new millennium he’s begun gradually and randomly discovering the possibilities offered by contemporary digital photography that he started to use for the light graffiti. He’s considered one of the leading artists in Great Britain in this creative niche. He’s being regularly invited to many different festivals around the world. He worked with various private and commercial clients as well.

 
/assistant: Neža Jurman/

 

Coproduction: ZRC SAZU