Category Archives: Arts

Artfest: Luminarium Levity II by Architects of Air

17th
Sep. × ’07
By stef

The other highlight of this year’s Artsfest for me was the Architects of Air piece in Eastside called Levity II. It is an inflatable maze-light light environment which uses contrasting semi-transparent and opaque plastics to create spaces that consist of one or more prime colours in a series of adjoining curved ‘rooms’.
When I was about [...]

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Artsfest: Friday was a Blast

15th
Sep. × ’07
By stef

ArtsFest, Birmingham’s free arts festival (and Europe’s largest apparently, if that means anything) kicked off on Friday with a fantastic piece of performance art/theatre/engineering/pyrotechnics/steampunkery called Blast.
I have to say that I was thoroughly impressed with the event. Gaffer-taped together dead technology, a vast sprawling space on an ambitious scale, dirty soot-covered artists hammering away [...]

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Back from holiday - here are a couple of new sites

14th
Sep. × ’07
By stef

I’ve been away. I was attempting to have a holiday but generally failing due to the curse of the crackberry.
So before Artsfest kicks off this weekend I thought I’d download a few thoughts into a blog post before this place gets filled up with photos.
Before going away, we managed to get a couple of projects [...]

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