This monumental work by REELIZE.STUDIO for Vivid Sydney 2022 explores the phenomenon of gravity using light and sound.
This monumental work explores the phenomenon of gravity as a governing force that binds existence throughout the universe. Through light, sound and a multi-sensory narrative, the sculpture draws us together and speculatively captures the alternative trajectories in the life cycle of stars.
Gravity affects all things with mass or energy and brings them toward one another. It is responsible for the birth of galaxies and the perceptual relativity of time and space. While impossible to witness with human sensory perception, the sculpture acts as a device that unveils the intricacy of gravity’s effect on light and its pervasive interconnection to all forms.
Light, sound, structure and the spaces they create play a key role in our rituals, which might lead to meaning, insight, and transcendence. In response to the recent events that have distanced our social body and separated people around the globe, the work is a monument to the importance of communal experience. It brings us together again, just like gravity.
The 4x4m cube was designed to be a modular structure, allowing for seamless integration of the lighting fixtures and mirror sphere.
696 Brightly P-Series Pro lighting fixtures form a double-sided volumetric grid around the large mirrored sphere, and are intricately programmed by REELIZE.STUDIO to a synchronised soundtrack. The high-resolution linear fixtures were supplied in a custom 600mm length to suit installation parameters, finished in a slimline black housing with matching diffusion lens.
Driving the system of 41,760 individually programmable RGB LEDs are our vDrive 600 24V pixel drivers, each capable of driving 48 fixtures at stable 47fps. The system has operated without fault for the duration of the installation, despite testing environmental conditions.
Artists:
REELIZE.STUDIO (Australia) / Jobe Williams (Australia) / Tomas Kacerik (Australia)
Collaborators:
Krasang (Thailand) / Mark Douglas Williams (Australia) / Light-Ctrl (Australia) / BRIGHTLY (United States) / Tilt Industrial Design (Australia)
Photography: Demas Rusli, Warnedz, Steve Brown Photography
