Light from Light

New online content – webcam & downloadable artworks

madeleine — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 04:58:41 +0000

The Light from Light exhibition website now features a live webcam feed of Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley’s eponymous outdoor photovoltaic sculpture that sits at the southern perimeter of the State Library of Queensland. After 6pm EST, you can see the geodesic structure and accompanying neon signage become illuminated, thanks to the solar power it has collected over the course of the day.

The website also features a downloadable artwork: Josef Strau’s poster for Theatre of the Lamps Talking in the Light of the Past in both English and Chinese can be downloaded as your very own copy. You can also listen to the English and Chinese Lamp Memoirs he recorded for the installation.

Wednesday 3rd of November: Light from Light opens in Shanghai

madeleine — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 06:44:43 +0000

Light from Light opens to Chinese audiences at the Shanghai Library on Wednesday, 3rd of November 2010.

The exhibition will be formally opened by Dr Wu Jianzhong, director of Shanghai Library, Lea-Giles Peters, State Librarian of the State Library of Queensland and Kim Machan, exhibition curator and director of MAAP – Multimedia Art Asia Pacific. The curator will be speaking about the exhibition and will conduct a tour of the artworks.

Participating artists will be in attendance at the opening.

The exhibition continues at the Shanghai Library until the 31st of January, 2011. Light from Light is held simultaneously at the State Library of Queensland.

MAAP welcomes audiences in Shanghai to attend the opening:

Terrace, 2nd Floor, Shanghai Library
1555 Huai Hai (M.) Road (via the Gate at the intersection with Gao An Road)

3-5pm, Wednesday, November 3, 2010.

Information for audiences in Shanghai is also available here: http://www.douban.com/event/12845252/

Light from Light opens in Brisbane this Friday!

madeleine — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 03:39:00 +0000

Light from Light opens to Australian audiences at the State Library of Queensland on Friday, 1st of October 2010.

The opening in Brisbane will be publicly celebrated with a day of artist talks on the following day.

Chinese audiences await the mirror exhibition, which opens on the 3rd of November.

Saturday 2nd of October: Brisbane Opening Event

madeleine — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 03:29:53 +0000

On Saturday 2nd of October, the opening of Light from Light at the State Library of Queensland will be celebrated with a series of artist talks and guided tour of the exhibition.

Artists will be in Brisbane to talk about their work featured in the exhibition.

For more information about this event, check the schedule of artist talks

Brisbane: Pak Sheung Chuen gives a free public talk

madeleine — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:52:05 +0000

Pak Sheung Chuen resting on his work, ‘Measuring the Size of the Sea Storing in a Library’ 2008

Brisbane audiences are invited to see Pak Sheung Chuen give a free public talk on 29 June at 11am at the State Library of Queensland Auditorium 2. Pak, the artist who represented Hong Kong at last year’s Venice Biennale, is in Brisbane this month to contemplate his next artwork. Pak’s work comprises a series of small, yet insightful, gestures in response to his immediate environment and to broader social and political issues, prompting the labels ‘philosophical’, ‘poetic’, ‘witty’, ‘profound’, and ‘sensitive’ from international commentators.

While in Brisbane for his residency, made possible by MAAP – Multimedia Art Asia Pacific (MAAP) and the State Library of Queensland, Pak will be developing artwork that engages with his travels and the State Library site for Light from Light. Read more about Pak’s residency.