Part of this year’s festival is the ‘Luminato Box’: a temporary white-walled structure built inside Brookfield Place (formerly BCE Place). The artist may display their art provided it adheres to these rules of the box, and today I wandered in.
When I first passed through the curtain and looked around I didn’t get it (okay, I rarely get it) but then when you get closer to the canvas the light fades on, transforms everything, and then you’re the girl standing there going “holy crap”. Look:
june 8 2009
“The Shadows of Burden (Doublespeak)” by Studio F-Minus, “is a series of interactive media pieces in which a seemingly random arrangement of wires is revealed to be a complicated sculpture casting the shadow of a tragic character in Greek mythology at the moment of his punishment”.
Then I met one half of the duo that is Studio F-Minus:
That’s Brad Hindson, architect and modest guy too, because it turns out his Nuit Blanche piece last year, A Dream of Pastures, was one of the whole festival’s highlights, but I only found that out by Googling the guy. On the left there is a side-profile shot of the mess of wires, except it’s not a mess at all.
Me: This is too cool, how this comes out of your head.
Brad: We work closely together, Mitchell and I.
Me: There’s so much finicky work in here, eh?
Brad: Ya, it took months to make some of these.
Me: Check and test. Check and test.
Brad knows patience and would probably relate to this. Too bad for you though, because as I type this Brad is taking it all down since you only get to be in the Luminato Box for just one day.
