LUCIFERIN (2024)

Vasabron, Stockholm

Premiere December 7th 2024

LUCIFERIN is an art installation made for the Nobel Week Lights, a light festival held in Stockholm December 7th to 15th, 2024.

We were given this site to make ours, a site-specific installation where light and sound could create a room away from the rest of the inner city. A passageway with a lot of traffic, the tunnel under the northern end of Vasabron (the Vasa Bridge) allowed itself to be used for an intense lighting installation. Viewed from afar, it was designed to elicit curiosity, a beckoning to come closer to the exhibit. At close range, the interactive element aimed to create an interaction from any willing participants: by taking up sounds, microphones in the rig would enhance both the sound and the light in the installation. The lighting also served to enhance the architectural features of the bridge's underbelly.

LUCIFERIN is a light and sound installation made in tribute to the 2008 laureates in chemistry (Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien) for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP. The piece has two different states: the active state, where a 15 minute sound sequence is playing along with accompanying lighting, and a 15 minute interactive state, where participants may influence the sound and light of the installation through their own sound. The installation creates a multitude of worlds for the participants to join and experience. The piece also carried a third state - the intermittent state, where a simple sequence of colours was cycled on the off-times of the installation.

LUCIFERIN is taking place through a collaboration called NAVET, hosted by KTH Royal Institute of Technology, established as a hub between different universities in Stockholm. LUCIFERIN is also created in collaboration with Costanza Julia Bani’s artistic research project All what Flickers and Glows.

Lighting design, visual concept, and project coordinator:

Michael Forsberg

Sound design (active state): Emilia Sundberg

Sound design (interactive state): Lars Bomanson

Supervisors: Roberto Bresin, Costanza Julia Bani, Federico Favero, Foteini Kyriakidou