About the Book
Library of Light brings together established and emerging practitioners who work with light, as material or subject, from theatre, music, performance, fine art, photography, film, public art, holography, digital media, architecture, and the built environment, together with curators, producers and other experts.
Structured around twenty-five interviews and four thematic essays – Political Light, Mediating Light, Performance Light and Absent Light – the book aims to broaden our understanding of light as a creative medium and examines its impact on our cultural history and the role it plays in the new frontiers of art, design and technology.
Illustrated with colour photographs and images of installations, sculptures, architectural projects, interventions in public space and works in virtual reality, the book includes interviews and contributions by: David Batchelor, Rana Begum, Robin Bell, Jason Bruges (Jason Bruges Studio), Anne Bean and Richard Wilson (The Bow Gamelan), Laura Buckley, Mário Caeiro, Paule Constable, Ernest Edmonds, Angus Farquhar (NVA), Rick Fisher, Susan Gamble and Michael Wenyon, Jon Hendricks, ISO Studio, Susan Hiller, Michael Hulls and Russell Maliphant, Cliff Lauson, Chris Levine, Michael Light, Joshua Lightshow, Liliane Lijn, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Manu Luksch, Mark Major (Speirs + Major), Helen Marriage (Artichoke), Anthony McCall, Gustav Metzger, Haroon Mirza, Yoko Ono, Katie Paterson, Andrew Pepper, Mark Titchner, Andi Watson.
Table of Contents:
Introduction; One: Political Light - I. Primal Light, II.
Invasion of Light; Two: Mediating Light - I. Light in the Lost Dimension, II.
Proto-cinematic Worlds; Three: Performance Light - I. Spectacular Light, II.
The Electric Drama – psychedelic light, III. War of Light, IV. Democracy of Light;
Four: Absent Light - I. Desert, II. Universal Darkness / Artificial Darkness,
III. Solar Eclipse, IV. Journey to the Centre of the Earth, V. But for the
Disappearing Light; References; Index
About the Author :
Jo Joelson has worked with light as a practising artist for over 20 years, known for her pioneering and experimental approach creating designs and installations for the Globe, the National, Stratford East, Barbican and the Royal Court Theatres and for concerts for Piano Circus, Pulp and Sigur Ros amongst others. As co-founder of London Fieldworks Joelson has created numerous collaborative artworks, projects and public art commissions working with film, sculpture, architecture, installation and radio.
