THROUGH HOLLOW LANDS

source: fryemuseumorg

LILIENTHAL|ZAMORA is a collaboration between Etta Lilienthal and Ben Zamora. As an extension of their careers as performance designers, the two began working together in 2008. As individual artists, Lilienthal and Zamora have designed projects for festivals and performance halls around the world, including Stockholm’s Baltic Sea Festival, the Helsinki Festival, the Berliner Festspiele, London’s Royal Festival Hall, Lincoln Center, the Mariinsky Theatre in Russia, the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Lucerne Festival, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the UNAM International Dance Festival in Mexico City, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art’s T:BA Festival, On The Boards, and SUSHI Performance and Visual Art.

Zamora has been collaborating with director Peter Sellars and video artist Bill Viola for years on The Tristan Project. Recently, he also collaborated with artist Eleanor Antin on Before the Revolution at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, as part of the Pacific Standard Time Festival. Lilienthal was a Guest Artist at ICKAmsterdam for Emio Greco|PC‘s La Commedia in 2011. LILIENTHAL|ZAMORA has received funding from various organizations including NEA/TCG, Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, Artist Trust, and 4Culture.
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source: duanekellynet

Titled “Through Hollow Lands,” the installation has been created by the light-artist team, LILIENTHAL|ZAMORA (individually known as Etta Lilienthal and Ben Zamora).

Ben Zamora and Etta Lilienthal

She explained that one image she had in mind at the project’s inception was that of enormous clouds in Colorado being pierced by lightning. To her that felt like an orchestra playing the clouds but with light instead of sound.
Starting with that concept, she and Ben wanted the viewer to enter the exhibit and experience the sensation of floating in light. I would say that they achieved their design goal.
Part of the fun of seeing the exhibit is watching the faces of other viewers light up when they experience it (and I’m not just referring to light reflected off foreheads and cheeks).
“Through Hollow Lands” is part of a larger matrix of art at the Frye, titled “Mw [Moment Magnitude].” It is billed as a cross-platform project of visual art, performances, readings, concerts, dance, rehearsals, and specially designed arts engagement programs.
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source: crumbmagazine

« Il n’est pas nécessaire de construire un labyrinthe quand l’Univers déjà en est un. » Jorge Luis Borges

Créée en 2012 par Etta Lilienthal et Ben Zamora, l’installation Through Hollow Lands, est constituée de 200 tubes fluorescents qui, via leur positionnement varié dans l’espace, viennent jouer avec la perception du spectateur. Ce labyrinthe visuel, exposé au Frye Art Museum de Seattle, est un subtil mélange de complexité et de simplicité, placé au milieu d’une pièce comme unique apport lumineux, ce jeux de géométrie installe une ambiance futuriste qui dessine dans le vide un ensemble d’espaces emboités. Le visiteur est invité à se balader sous les néons suspendus un par un au plafond et à laisser sa perception spatiale se perdre dans ce labyrinthe déconstructiviste…
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source: roomiejp

縦に横に、手前に奥に、光が広げる空間術。

200本の直線型蛍光灯を使ったインスタレーション作品「THROUGH HOLLOW LANDS」を創り上げたのは、シアトルのビジュアルパフォーマンスデザイナーのEtta LilienthalさんとBen Zamoraさん。

未来的な幾何学模様。まるでCGで作られた3Dアートのよう。うん、美しい。