Light Echoes
Aaron Koblin and Ben Tricklebank
27 June 2015 – 6 September 2015
The Curve
In response to the dynamic architecture of the Curve, Los Angeles-based digital artists Aaron Koblin and Ben Tricklebank present a brand new interactive laser commission, Light Echoes.
Visitors enter a dark environment, and will be led through the Curve by a wall of light moving slowly through the space, allowing visitors to track and follow the beam. The journey of visitors will be scanned and revealed at the end as an integral part of the finale; a projected series of abstractions and words through which visitors can see themselves.
Light Echoes will remain open once Station to Station has concluded, until 6 September.
This summer the Barbican in partnership with The Vinyl Factory is set to stage the only international stop of Station to Station, American multi-media artist Doug Aitken’s wildly celebrated experiment in spontaneous artistic creation. Performances at the exhibition will be pressed to vinyl on-site by The VF Press, our mobile pressing unit.
From 27 June to 26 July, a “living exhibition” will take over every nook and cranny of the Barbican, both indoors and outdoors, for 30 days. Station to Station draws together an inspiring and diverse fusion of international and UK-based artists from the world of contemporary art, music, dance, graphic design and film, with much of the work created live in the space.
Over 100 artists are already programmed as part of Station to Station with even more acts in the pipeline. Of the confirmed acts so far, highlights include a performance by Suicide presenting new music and classics from their back catalogue; Terry Riley composing and improvising for five days, culminating in a performance of new material written during the residency; an 88-cymbal-players performance led by the Boredoms; music residencies from Warp Records’ LoneLady and Nozinja, and VF collaborators Haroon Mirza and Factory Floor; a unique live performance by Savages, and Light Echoes, a specially commissioned interactive laser installation by Aaron Koblin and Ben Tricklebank.
