Lumen Festival
dal 14/6/2013 al 14/6/2013
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14/6/2013
Lumen Festival
Lyons pool, New York
The fourth annual Video and Performance Festival: 50+ artists transform an immense swimming pool into a sensational and spectacular luminous playground filled with fantastic creatures!
One of the most anticipated summer events to happen in
New York City, the fourth annual LUMEN Video and Performance Festival will be taking place at
Lyons Pool. The pool, one of a group of eleven immense public swimming pools that opened
throughout the city in the summer of 1936, will be transformed by 50 local and international
artists who will participate in this year’s LUMEN Festival. Presented by Staten Island Arts, the
festival takes place on Saturday June 15, 2013, from 6pm to midnight, and is free and open to the
public.
There is no need to bring your suit and towel to this pool party – you’ve been granted access to
the site before the New York City Parks Department fills the pools with water for the summer! In
lieu of water, the site will be illuminated and infiltrated by such creatures as new media
projectionist DD’s re-animation of the beast from the classic 1955 B-movie ‘It Came From Beneath
The Sea,’ which will playfully question what monsters still exist within our oceans. Another creature
lurking in the darkness will be Scott Van Campen’s Butterfly Machine, a giant wheeled butterfly
contraption with a Super 8 film projector mounted on the front. Visitors will be invited to pedal the
machine causing the wings to flap up and down and the projector to illuminate the side of the pool
with a silent film of mechanical butterflies in flight.
LUMEN 2013 will feature video installations, new media projections, animation, light and sound
art, curated this year by David C. Terry and Esther Neff. Terry is the Director of Programs/Curator at
the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) where he oversees the Fellowships, Curatorial,
Sponsorship and Professional Development Programs while Neff is an artist, curator, theorist and
founder of the Panoply Performance Laboratory (PPL), which is a performance space in Bushwick, a
flexible collective, and the moniker for her collaborative performance work with Brian McCorkle. In
addition to the traditional open call to artists and emphasis on emerging artists, internationally
acclaimed artists were asked to participate, selecting specific works that speaks to the phenomenal
and playful locale.
In addition to the main swimming pool, artists and performers will utilize the diving pool, wading
pool, lobby rotunda, the rooftop promenades as well as animating a near-by Parks tower that
looms in the distance.
LUMEN will continue its tradition of allowing visitors’ access to Staten Island’s waterfront while
providing a stunning backdrop of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Statue of Liberty – intermittently
vanished by tankers passing through the Kill Van Kull and New York Bay. Now in its fourth year,
LUMEN has developed a dedicated and ever expanding following – over 2,000 people attended the
one-night festival in 2011, more than 3,000 people attended in 2012 and even more are expected
to attend this year’s event.
Image: Lumen 2012 (Mike Shane Photography)
Press contact:
Gena Mimozo T: 718.447.3329 x1003 F: 718.442.8573 E: gmimozo@statenislandarts.org
SATURDAY JUNE 15, 6PM – MIDNIGHT (ONE NIGHT ONLY). THE BIGGEST POOL PARTY OF THE SUMMER!
Lyons pool
6 Victory Blvd (at Murray Hulbert Ave.) Staten Island, NY 10301