{"id":4840,"date":"2017-02-06T16:26:45","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T03:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/?p=4840"},"modified":"2024-05-03T14:32:42","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T01:32:42","slug":"edge-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/?p=4840","title":{"rendered":"2018 Edge of the Universe – Wellington – Lux Light Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE \u00a0 \u00a0 | \u00a0 \u00a0 2018<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Festival: LUX Light Festival, 18-27 May 2018<\/p>\n

Architect and Visual Artist: Daniel K Brown<\/p>\n

Media: Architecture, sound, animated projection, black screen
\nDigital Animation | 0:07:38:00, 25.00 fps, 1920 x 1440
\nSite: Taranaki Wharf diving platform cut-out, Wellington
\nMusic: “Edge” \u00a92018 Mark K. Johnson<\/p>\n

Letters of the alphabet cascade like a waterfall from the cornice of a small heritage building on Taranaki Wharf into the Wellington Harbour below. The aim of the work is to bring the voice of the heritage building to life once again.<\/p>\n

As the falling letters gain in intensity and momentum, they spell out lines from six poems along the Wellington Writers’ Walk, before disappearing into the turbulence below. As the letters tumble into the harbour, they are reflected back up onto the lower segment of the screen to create a cacophony of illumination. The work begins and ends with the New Zealand poet laureate Bill Manhire’s poem on the Writers’ Walk: \u201cI live at the edge of the universe like everybody else\u201d. The first letter to fall is a capital N; as it slowly rotates it becomes Z, then N and Z once more, before fading away at the bottom.<\/p>\n

VUW Postgraduate Student Collaborators: Nicholas Kempster and Branislav Tosic<\/p>\n

\"I<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Edge<\/a>Edge<\/strong><\/p>\n

These excerpts from 6 poems along the Wellington Writers\u2019 Walk invite a larger story to unfold when placed together \u2013 a story about taking risks, learning from mistakes, making a difference, seeing the light within the darkness, and gaining wisdom over time.<\/em><\/p>\n

I live at the edge
\nof the universe,
\nlike everybody else.
\n(Bill Manhire: \u2018Milky Way Bar\u2019 in Milky Way Bar, Victoria University Press, 1991)<\/p>\n

\u2026 there\u2019s always an edge
\nhere that one must walk which is sharp
\nand precarious, requiring vigilance.
\n(Patricia Grace: Cousins, Penguin Books, 1992)<\/p>\n

It\u2019s true you can\u2019t live here by chance,
\nyou have to do and be, not simply watch \u2026
\n(Lauris Edmond: \u2018The Active Voice\u2019 in Scenes from a Small City, Daphne Brasell Associates Press, 1994)<\/p>\n

Blue rain from a clear sky.
\nOur world a cube of sunlight \u2013
\nbut to the south
\nthe violet admonition of thunder.
\n(Alistair Te Ariki Campbell: \u2018Blue Rain\u2019 in The Dark Lord of Savaiki: Collected Poems, Hazard Press, 2003)<\/p>\n

Then with the coming of darkness the
\nbay opened up beneath us, like a shell splashed
\nwith beads of light.
\n(Marilyn Duckworth: A Barbarous Tongue, Hutchinson, 1963)<\/p>\n

And now, as I grow in years,
\nI feel at times like an old
\nviolin played on by a master
\nhand. \u2026
\n(Patrick Lawlor: Old Wellington Days, Whitcombe & Tombs, 1959)<\/p>\n

I live at the edge
\nof the universe,
\nlike everybody else.
\n(Bill Manhire: \u2018Milky Way Bar\u2019 in Milky Way Bar, Victoria University Press, 1991)<\/p>\n

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EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE \u00a0 \u00a0 | \u00a0 \u00a0 2018 Festival: LUX Light Festival, 18-27 May 2018 Architect and Visual Artist: Daniel K Brown Media: Architecture, sound, animated projection, black screen Digital Animation | 0:07:38:00, 25.00 fps, 1920 x 1440 Site: Taranaki Wharf diving platform cut-out, Wellington Music: “Edge” \u00a92018 Mark K. Johnson Letters of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[379],"tags":[7,420,422,17,421],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4840"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5356,"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840\/revisions\/5356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}