Life Lightshow
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Life Lightshow
4th to the 8th October 2022
This stunning lightshow by Luxmuralis saw the inside of the Cathedral transformed into a visual journey to reflect upon life on todays planet in a single 24 hour period.
The show was created by award winning artistic collaboration Luxmuralis, sculptor Peter Walker and composer David Harper. Luxmuralis followed the previous sell-out Space Voyage lightshow at Rochester Cathedral in 2021.
Life was designed to enable people to explore and contemplate their own personal journeys and reflect upon life on todays planet that occurs in a single 24 hour period. The viewer is taken from Sunrise to Sunset, journeying through the beauty of planet earth, witnessing the sun, the oceans and the clouds. The outside reflected inside the majestic sacred space giving the viewer moments of awe and wonder.
The artwork enables contemplation on our human existence in the creation of our planet and our human impact upon it, reflecting ecology and the beauty of the world around us. The sounds and textures of humanity, extinction and time is portrayed.
Photographs of Life by Luxmuralis at Rochester Cathedral by Peter Walker.
Sound and light art is projected onto architectural features transforming and enveloping the space. Visitors walk through and view individual light and sound art installations digitally and artistically created by artistic collaboration ‘Luxmuralis’ which highlight the architectural features of the space. Viewers are immersed in the soundscapes they hear and walk through the projections that are all around them on an explorative journey through the artworks.
Sounds heard are musical pieces composed by David Harper who has used within his works recorded anthropological soundtracks from collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum. The artwork and visual imagery is created by Artist Peter Walker who has interpreted collections from the Natural History Museum Oxford and the William Morris Museum, depicting nature and artistically highlighting the Cathedrals own architectural design features and brings the outside world inside.
The Cathedral hosts several large exhibitions and smaller installations each year from education to art and everything in between.
