Laser Halyard

Greenwave Laser

Cornish light artists Greenwave Laser bring a maritime-themed interactive laser display to Royal William Yard. Husband-and-wife partnership Paul and Antonia celebrate the South West’s vibrant maritime history, combining traditional rigging and signal flags with the latest customised laser control system to create a work which references the past while pulling us into the future.

Visitors are encouraged to join the crew on the dockside, hauling a line of laser flags to the top of Mills Bakery chimney with a customary “halyard” rope while an immersive soundscape of traditional shanties and sailors shouts rouse crew members to – Haul Away!

Message in a Bottle

Caroline Mercer with Outside the Box 

This a collection of ceramic bottles and lamps, made by over 100 different children and people of Plymouth.

Each porcelain bottle holds a private message, fired into the clay; unseen but everlasting. Will the intended recipient ever feel the impact of these words? By lighting them we send the words on their way, through the darkness.

The large lamps are collaborative pieces by various groups of people, working alongside the artist. They capture a sense of the group, of the day, playful moments in time. They are rays of hope, celebrating and sharing human connection.

Curio

TRIGGER STUFF – Savinder Bual and Elena Blanco

Curio is an alternative museum featuring stories and objects contributed by residents from the area related to the idea of home.

It is a light installation which allows curious passersby to peer into doors and discover stories from our neighbours.

Her Voices

The Media Workshop

Her Voices is a new immersive event in Barbican’s Elizabethan Gardens,

 inviting visitors to “eavesdrop” on rarely-told women’s stories from across Plymouth, Devon and Cornwall. Participants journey through a delicate display of fibre optics and LEDs providing an ephemeral physicality to voices rising from hidden speakers around the gardens.

 The installation features recordings celebrating both women’s great achievements and inequalities still apparent today. Voices range from Plymouth’s Lady Nancy Astor, the first female sitting MP to Cornish fishworkers and North Devon farmers. It is a meditation on who we are, how we got here and where we are going.

Trinity

Ada Krzoska and Dan Sumner

Trinity is a tri-sculptural projection mapping installation. Three Roman deities, each representing a different aspect of the festival’s theme, together the meanings of these figures constitute a divine balance.

Stylistically, by being perceived as antique, these figures will combine their historic aesthetic with new technology and projected content to form a new approach of celebrating the origins of our cultural roots with an imaginative and futuristic twist.

Suspension

Ottomata Studio

A new exploration from Ottomata of the relation between laser and water. Curious about the combination of two natural forces : concentrated light and water; we set out to find out what would happen if we were to give a consciousness to both matters. The result is a meditative experiment that should bring you back in the present moment.

Escape

Ali Pym and The Media Workshop

A series of glowing frames hover in space after an escape from the walls upon which they hung. This cluster of uncertain fugitives pulsate with light as they seek a new home, empty frames desperately seeking a subject. Bright white light transcends into a kaleidoscopic dance of colour, bouncing against the rigidity of its own corners and edges, simultaneously free yet still bound. Escape is the artwork that is caught within the frame itself. Chaotic. Misbehaving. Inviting you to be captured.