Sensing Colour Sensing Space was part of the Light Art Festival in Knokke-Heist, in the Heilig Hart-church, from December 4 2021 until January 9 2022.
Sensing Colour Sensing Space is a light and sound installation that evokes a spatial experience of pure colour. Each colour has its own vibration, atmosphere, emotion. The slow fading of colours has something magical, the changes are precise and elusive. The subtle gradient challenges the limits of our perception and intensifies our sense of space and time. Sensing Colour, Sensing Space lifts you up as it were out of your daily reality and takes you into another dimension, an inner journey.
Lidy Six (The Netherlands) is inspired by the transcendent effect of the colour fields in the work of painter Mark Rothko, ‘Colour is a doorway into another reality’, and by the duration in the work of Marina Abramovic, ‘Time is the most transforming element in art’.
Just as Six's work sucks the viewer into a world of its own where there is no beginning and no end, composer John Cage makes you travel through time by means of sound. In Organ²/ASLSP (As Slow As Possible), an organ composition from 1987, he chose not to indicate the duration. A performance of the piano version usually lasts 20 to 70 minutes and is determined by the time a string can vibrate. An organ does not have this limitation, so in principle a note can be played endlessly. Since 2001, the piece has been performed in Halberstadt, Germany, as the slowest and longest lasting organ piece in the world, with a total length of 639 years.
The young composer Koen Boeijinga (The Netherlands) was inspired by this work by John Cage and created an organ piece especially for this installation. Extended tones and minimal gradual shifts form a contemplative sound world that enters into an synergy with the slowly slipping light frequencies.
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Light is the source – sensory, conceptual and energetic – of the current work of Lidy Six.
As a theatre director, she developed experiential spaces. In recent years, she has focused on exploiting experiential spaces in installations based on light and sound. Her work offers the opportunity to quietly experience the elementary – the space, the light, a colour, a tone and their magical effect.
Since Fields of Frequencies, 2016 Six has worked with lighting designer Varja Klosse. They ‘paint’ together with the palette of LED light, which is eminently capable of vibrating colour frequencies. With composer Koen Boeijinga she shares the search for the power of duration and contemplation.
Concept / lighting design: Lidy Six
Lighting design / operator: Varja Klosse
Composition / execution: Koen Boeijinga
Recording: Cees Oosterhuis
Engineering: Hans Westendorp
Advice: Jellichje Reijnders
December 4 2021 - January 9 2022 : Sensing Colour Sensing Space
Light Art Festival in Knokke-Heist (Belgium) in the Heilig Hart-Church
Heilig Hart-Church, Dumortierlaan 50, Knokke-Heist.