Vivid Sydney: Light, Music & Ideas

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From the 27th to the 18th of June, Vivid is held in Sydney.

Vivid Sydney is an annual outdoor lighting festival with immersive light installations and projections in Sydney. But concretely (or conceptually) it is a celebration of both art and technology, and both are brought together. (That makes me think about my future master hehe :D)

Here are some of my pictures. The quality is a shame compared to what it was so that is why I strongly recommend that you check their website.

Or that you look at “vivid sydney 2016” on google image 😀

I have been very impressed by the installations in the city but I must say that the most spectacular was the one on the Opera house.

For half an hour or so, the petals of this –already amazing- building are recovered by incredible animations and artwork. It was so beautiful, so magical and so real at the same time. It was exactly as if the artworks were part of the walls, were the walls. I was completely immersed… actually it is very hard to come up with a good description of this experience. What is also very meaningful is that these artists come from aboriginal communities, and for the period of the festival, it is aboriginal art that light up not only the opera house but the entire city.

Below, please find a more professional and more accurate description of the installation:

Lighting the Sails for the eighth year of Vivid Sydney, Sydney Opera House will transform into an animated canvas of Australian indigenous art featuring iconic contemporary works from Karla Dickens, Djon Mundine, Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi, Reko Rennie, Donny Woolagoodja, and the late Gulumbu Yunupingu.

Celebrating First Nations’ spirituality and culture through the songlines of our land and sky, this year’s Lighting the Sails is about painting and celebrating country through a pattern of sharing systems, interconnected history lines and trade routes. Lighting the Sails Director and Head of Indigenous Programming at Sydney Opera House Rhoda Roberts has selected six artists of different clans, national estates and territories for an immersive projected artwork that weaves through time and distance.

Vivid website

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That night, I have been to my first (and probably last since it is almost the end of my exchange) concert at the opera house to see:

Antony and the Johnson ♪ ♫

I leave you with one song:

Bisous!