Birthday candles on the facade of Thailand’s Royal Throne Hall? Yup. For 9 days this month, the building has been the scene of a sound and light art installation — It began on Saturday and runs through Dec. 13 and was commissioned in honor of the king’s 82nd birthday.
Heck of a way to celebrate…
Berlin-based Philipp Geist is the artist, and he has used images of King Bhumibol and his “social” works, plus natural and cultural images, to make a one-hour show. The animations are in 3-D.
Geist regularly projects his work onto facades. In 2007, he did an installion at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, and in 2008, he sited one on the piazetta of the Berlin Kulturforum for “Long Museum Nights.” You can view some of them here and here.
I have never seen Geist’s work and have learned that next year, he’ll do an installation in Richmond, Va., though not a public art one — rather, it’s at Russel Projects. He also plans to show at the Montreal Mutek Festival next June.
Mutek describes itself as “dedicated to the dissemination and development of digital creativity in sound, music, and audio-visual art. Its mandate is to provide a platform for the most original and visionary artists currently working in their fields, with the intent of providing an outlet of initiation and discovery for the audiences we seek to develop.” Read more about it here.
And here’s another photo of the Thai work, plus a link to video:
