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Illuminating the West Front
Published: on 26th October 2007 by Brahm in Press Releases
Usman Haque, the leading digital artist whose stunning work opened London Fashion Week in September, will transform York Minster with a 60m-high light installation – over the size of an Olympic swimming pool.
The artwork, which will run each night from 6pm to 11pm until November 3, is the centre piece of a nine day arts festival, Illuminating York, showcasing cutting-edge outdoor artwork, exhibitions, site-specific performances and tours.
Evoke will be projected onto the western façade of the Minster and will be an interactive installation which adapts shape and colour to different tone and strength of sounds and voices. Interpreting the functions and traditions of York Minster, the projection will allow members of the public to use their own voices to create colourful light patterns that emerge at the building's foundations and soar up towards the sky.