Making Array
January, 2009
Photographs whilst making Array in London and Yamaguchi, Japan.
Photographs 20-26 part of James Medcraft’s Yamaguchi Series.
Array
December, 2008
ArrayCommissioned by Yamaguchi Center for Arts And Media (YCAM)
for their fifth anniversary, as part of the Yuda Art Project.
Supported by The British Council, Tokyo
‘Array’ is a field of columns set in the courtyard of the Chuya Nakahara
Memorial Museum in Southern Japan. The columns create a field of
light and sound which gently shifts in response to the viewers’ movements,
via a hidden network of ultrasonic sensors. Each column is lit by a pure,
shimmering white light. This forest of light light calls you in, and its response
to your movement invites you to explore. Inside the grid lives a spirit,
in the form of a single pure red light. This spirit is timid but often playful,
revealing itself boldly then disappearing.
Echo, Teatro Sociale di Como, Italy
November, 2008
November 2009
In collaboration with the dance group Mimbre, ‘Echo’,
was performed in the monumental setting of Como’s Teatro Sociale
in Italy. This work was originally commissioned by Vamp for the Tate
Modern’s turbine hall. Using advanced 3-D cameras to capture the
physicality of the dancers movement, this was then translated in real
time to a monumental backdrop creating a simultaneous performance.
‘Echo’ will be touring internationally in 2009.