the lamp project
Creator
This is a playful, imaginative art
experience where animation is video mapped onto an existing inner city
building, bringing to life the domestic scenes of the characters who live in
the apartments inside.
Live actors inside the building play multiple characters who are seen through existing windows by the public in the street. Their actions are timed in with the animation which is video projected around the windows.
A series of playful, magical scenes develop, based on typical domestic situations. The life-blood of the apartment building are the electricity cables, which animatedly grow like vines from a fuse box at ground floor. They twist around the rooms, extending out into lamps and furniture, giving light and life to the domestic scenes within. Relationships between characters in six to twelve different windows develop as the building itself takes on an appearance similar to that of a graphic novel: an older woman tries to steal the shadow of a young girl as she waters her plants, a couple kiss without realizing that the carton of milk he dropped has spilt and is now flooding the whole building. The old man fallen asleep in front of the television doesn’t see animals leaping out of the TV screen to rest on other window frames. A woman plays piano and sings, the sound of her voice flowing out over the building front and into the audience below, while the animation and the other live characters move in time to her rhythm.
This work is currently in development. Barcelona/Christchurch 2015.
Live actors inside the building play multiple characters who are seen through existing windows by the public in the street. Their actions are timed in with the animation which is video projected around the windows.
A series of playful, magical scenes develop, based on typical domestic situations. The life-blood of the apartment building are the electricity cables, which animatedly grow like vines from a fuse box at ground floor. They twist around the rooms, extending out into lamps and furniture, giving light and life to the domestic scenes within. Relationships between characters in six to twelve different windows develop as the building itself takes on an appearance similar to that of a graphic novel: an older woman tries to steal the shadow of a young girl as she waters her plants, a couple kiss without realizing that the carton of milk he dropped has spilt and is now flooding the whole building. The old man fallen asleep in front of the television doesn’t see animals leaping out of the TV screen to rest on other window frames. A woman plays piano and sings, the sound of her voice flowing out over the building front and into the audience below, while the animation and the other live characters move in time to her rhythm.
This work is currently in development. Barcelona/Christchurch 2015.