Kaleidoscope, projected at Leeds Light Night 2010
If you were in Leeds, Wakefield or Scarborough last winter, your feet might be famous!
As part of The Moving Body in the City, artists Matt and Rob Vale were out and about looking at the way people move through urban landscapes. The resulting images were projected through their gigantic kaleidoscope to create stunning patterns against unexpected backdrops.
This was just one part of The Moving Body in the City project, which saw some amazing artists exploring the connection between the moving body and public spaces in Yorkshire, taking their inspiration from sources as diverse as the filming of Billy Liar in Leeds to the creation of the brand new Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield.
Commissioned by Lumen and imove, artists Rachel Goodyear, Emily Richardson, Tyman & Rushton, Bernd Behr and Rob and Matt Vale used places in Leeds, Wakefield, Scarborough and Holmfirth to examine how these cities are shaped by people moving through them.
You can read more at http://movingbodyinthecity.wordpress.com/.
Kaleidoscope
We've found something good about the night drawing in - we can light up Scarborough Lighthouse with Rob & Matt Vale's Kaleidoscope! One of our favourites from The Moving Body in the City, Kaleidoscope was a show-stopper at last year's Leeds Light Night, with hundreds of people joining in to create patterns on the Town...
Matt & Rob Vale
Matt and Rob’s giant kaleidoscope starred in The Moving Body in the City. Matt and Rob Vale form ‘Illuminos’, a film/installation artist and lighting designer collaboration, creating visually inventive, memorable artworks and theatre events. Their work ranges from very large scale illumination to small scale dvd, but they are always working to create something unique...
Bernd Behr
Bernd created one of the installations in The Moving Body in the City. Bernd Behr is a Taiwanese/German artist based in London. Born in Hamburg and raised in Malaysia, Behr studied at San José State University, California and Goldsmiths College, London. Behr was shortlisted for the 2003 Beck’s Futures prize. His work can be seen...
Rachel Goodyear
Rachel created one of the installations for The Moving Body in the City Rachel Goodyear completed BA (hons) Fine Art at Leeds Metropolitan University in 2000, since when she has been practicing art in Manchester. She has exhibited regularly in the UK and abroad and has been shortlisted for the Northern Art Prize. Cats, Cold,...
Emily Richardson
Emily created one of the video installations in The Moving Body in the City Having studied Fine Art at Middlesex University and Film-making at San Francisco Art Institute, Emily Richardson has gone on to make several films that have been widely exhibited both in the UK and internationally. Working with 16mm film and multiple screen...
Tyman & Rushton
Tyman and Rushton created one of the video installations for The Moving Body in the City. Emma Rushton and Derek Tyman are based in the North and have been working together collaboratively since 1997. Their recent work has focused on particular locations and events to examine notions of public/civic space and ideas of belonging, community,...
