Standing alone in the dark, these four-metre streetlights keep their lamp shade-like head closed. But as you approach, they come alive. Bending towards...

Bloomlight

Location:

The Promenade
Lime Street
2000 NSW
Australia

Venue:
King Street Wharf
Bloomlight
Bloomlight

Artist Detail

VUOW

VOUW

VOUW is an Amsterdam-based design studio founded by Mingus Vogel and Justus Bruns in 2018. VOUW is a pioneer in 'slow-tech' design, which is the idea that technology is not solely a means of efficiency and productivity. Their designs are guided by the principle that technology can help us slow down and reconnect with ourselves and our surroundings. They have won multiple awards for their most recent work Bloomlight, including a Archiproducts Design Award, LIT Lighting Design Award and a Good Design Award.

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Event Details

Standing alone in the dark, these four-metre streetlights keep their lamp shade-like head closed. But as you approach, they come alive.

Bending towards you and slowly 'blooming', they light up and open more the closer you get, excited by your presence. The work transforms a common urban sight – a motion-centred light – into a friendly local personality eager to say hello. As you walk away, the lights gradually return to their upright resting position, closing its bloom and dimming its light once more.

Inspired by the mesmerising motion of grass in the wind, this artwork reimagines urban design and the cityscape as a curious, reactive force – one that inspires us to be curious and playful, too.

Country represented by installation: The Netherlands

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Access and Inclusion

  • Audio Described - Audio description is a service provided for patrons who are blind or have low vision. Trained audio describers give live, objective, verbal descriptions.
  • Features Audio - The event features audio.
  • Interactive - This event is interactive.
  • Wheelchair Accessible - Access to the venue is suitable for wheelchairs (toilets, ramps/lifts etc.) and designated wheelchair spaces are available.