EVENT: PROJECTION PROJECT
TYPE OF EVENT: ART INSTALLATION USING LIGHT PROJECTION
PARTNER: SUPER SLOW WAY & BLACKBURN COLLEGE
DATE: AUTUMN/WINTER 2018
An interactive projection installation by artist and lighting designer, Jen Kagan working with photographer and videographer, Scott Jackson and art students from Blackburn College as part of Blackburn’s Festival of Light.
Passers by were invited to bring the building to life by pressing the doorbell on a nearby lamp posts, illuminating the building with changing projections that capture images from the past and the creative lives of younger residents.
About Super Slow Way
Super Slow Way is an arts commissioning programme in Pennine Lancashire shaped by local communities working alongside a wide range of local, national and international artists and producers. Super Slow Way takes its name from a poem by Ian McMillan, the Canal & River Trust’s poet laureate for 2012, about the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, which runs across the area the programme serves.
The vision is for the canal to become a vehicle for bringing communities together on a waterway which everyone shares, exploring how radical and ambitious art programming by the people of Pennine Lancashire can develop creativity, strength and connectedness across and within communities.
Read more about the project and watch videos of the projections here: https://superslowway.org.uk/projects/projection/
