From a technical point ArtAV worked very closely with Heather Phillipson to find an appropriate material for both the Cooper Gallery main space installation and the Upper Foyer. For Heather’s vision it was important to her that the projections in the Cooper Gallery were visible beyond the screen material and onto the wall but that the material was dense enough …
Gary Beestone Associates and the BBC contracted our director, Nick Joyce, to work as Systems Manager for Eurovision 2023 in Liverpool. Taking place in the UK for the first time since 1998 after Katrina and the Waves brought the coveted prize home in 1997. The live final reached 162 million viewers with record breaking online engagement and musical impact. The …
It was a real honour to be commissioned by Liverpool Cathedral to help deliver Izyum to Liverpool by artist Katya Buchatska as part of Eurofest in Liverpool. Filmed in real-time, the exhibit took the viewer on a poignant train journey, showing an extraordinary window into the journey of escape many Ukrainians have taken since the full-scale Russian invasion in February …
Baltic presents Land of Friends, an exhibition by Carolina Caycedo, the London born artist of Colombian heritage. Currently residing in LA this is her first survey exhibition in Europe. This exhibition is an overview of the past twenty years of her artistic expression. A running theme with her works of climate and social justice she has always engaged with the …
We’re proud to celebrate another successful 2022 Christmas season working in partnership with Culture Creative providing a number of custom outdoor lighting installations to spectacular venues throughout the UK and USA. This year we supplied 27 separate installations to 15 different venues for the My Christmas Trails events https://mychristmastrails.co.uk/. Highlights from ArtAV included Giant 10m LED Christmas trees at Blenheim …
ArtAV were chosen to provide production management for the Commonwealth Games Opening and Closing Ceremonies. The brief encompassed the management of all Lighting, Video, Special Effects and Broadcast systems. Working closely with PRG, Creative Technology, Titanium Fireworks, Luminous, Pyrojunkies/ER Productions, Done & Dusted and Sunset & Vine we managed the system design and integration on behalf of the Birmingham Ceremonies …
Marco Fusinato’s DESASTRES, curated by Alexie Glass-Kantor is an experimental noise project that synchronises sound with image and takes the form of a durational solo performance as installation. Fusinato performed live in the Australia Pavilion for 200 days using an electric guitar as a signal generator into mass amplification to improvise slabs of noise, saturated feedback and discordant intensities that trigger a …
Artist Yuki Kihara presents a multi disciplinary work in Paradise Camp, from the unique perspective of Fa‘afafine a third gender in Sāmoa. Paradise Camp comprises of twelve photographs in saturated colour that upcycle paintings by Paul Gauguin; a “talk show” video projection with a group of Fa‘afafine discuss the Gauguin paintings and Kihara’s personal research archive. Kihara’s audacious re-enactments address …
‘Vampires in Space’ is presented as a multi disciplinary work including film, poetry and an artistic set design. The narrative follows a group of vampires traveling through space in their ship expressing their discussions and thoughts. Marques uses the concept of vampires to explore the themes of gender identity, non nuclear families and mental health.ArtAV have been installing various Pavilions …
Sutapa Biswas’ exhibition, LUMEN at Baltic was a curated collection of works that span Biswas’s career. Featuring a selection of film works, photographs and drawings with the underlying themes to all of Biswas’ work, that of loss, memory, motherhood and migration. In particular her work can focus on the ‘Empire’ and the oft neglected female voice of the colonialism experience. …