THE PEOPLE'S PROJECTOR
Night Lights Denver is a permanent way for The Denver Theatre District to support innovative artists with an experimental platform while attracting people downtown to experience a free, unique experience.
Our vision for this project is that Night Lights Denver truly becomes ‘the people’s projector,’ encouraging Denver to participate and contribute – including the international, national and locally-based artists we pay for commissioned artworks, schools and people walking through the district. Night Lights Denver partners include Downtown Denver Partnership, Orange Barrel Media and the Daniels & Fisher Tower.
ABOUT
The Denver Theatre District
The Denver Theatre District (DTD) enlivens a 16-block area of downtown Denver through interactive, immersive and experimental art and culture events and experiences. It provides creatives with a downtown platform and financial support for sharing their work. The DTD is a private non-profit funded through a revenue share collected from advertising on static and LED screens located throughout the District. The Denver Theatre District invests its outdoor media revenues in cultural and art-based experiences, most of which are free to the public. This model is the first of its kind, setting an example for cities nationwide in how to leverage private revenue streams to fund public art and activity.
Downtown Denver Partnership
The Downtown Denver Partnership implements a place-based economic development strategy to support its vision for an economically healthy, vibrant and growing downtown. Through creative public realm activation with a focus on iconic, inclusive public art, the Partnership is building a thriving center city – a place for the community to come together for meaningful interactions and memorable experiences. The Partnership convenes the public, private and philanthropic sectors to drive progress forward in Downtown Denver to the benefit of all those who live, work and play downtown.
Every Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening
Month of February (Thurs - Sat only)
6:15pm - 9:15pm
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Month of March (Thurs - Sat only)
3-hour program starts between 6:30pm - 7:45pm
FEATURED ART PIECES
Artist Name: John Roemer
Artwork title: My Clock (2020)
Artist statement: "Two minutes of time measured by nearly 4 cycles of My Clock. Each cycle is denoted by 30 arrangements of Daniel's and Fisher Tower windows. My Clock is an exercise t documenting the passage of time by creating my own tool for its measurement."
Website: https://johnroemer.com/
Date: February 2020
Time: 6:15 - 9:15pm
Artist Name: Natascha Seideneck
Artwork title: Uncanny Territory
Artist statement: "Uncanny Territory inspired by the turn of the century world travels of Daniels which ultimately led to his inspiration for conception of the Tower. This 2 min video narrative departs from the familiar and transforms to the dreamlike unfamiliar, as one often experiences through travel to a new place. The video is comprised of multiple miniature photographic still lifes that are digitally animated."
Website: http://nataschaseideneck.com/
Date: February 2020
Time: 6:15 - 6:15pm
Note: Follow Natascha on Instagram @nataschaseideneck
Artist Name: Lauryn Siegel
Artwork title: STRIP TEASE
Artist statement: "STRIP TEASE is about the contradiction clothing, and by extension personal style and identity, within the global monoculture fast fashion has helped create. It is a site specific response to the forced reimagining of retail spaces as digital capitalism reigns upon us all. The garments, seen in a twisted and convoluted yet beautiful and seductive states, mirror the conflict almost anyone who has dealt with addictive shopping tendencies has experienced. The abstracted textures are culled from actual fast fashion retailers."
Website: http://www.laurynsiegel.com/
Date: February 2020
Time: 6:15 - 9:15pm
Note: This piece is a collaboration with digital artist Rio Roye who also lives in Brooklyn.
Artist Name: Kathy Rose
Artwork title: Dream of the Tower
Artist statement: "Kathy Rose’s work has evolved from her unique, pioneering performance work combining dance with film to her current surreal performance video spectacles, installations, and video pieces, with influence from symbolist art and the Japanese Noh theater."
Website: http://krose.com//
Date: February 2020
Time: 6:15 - 9:15pm
Artist Name: Kate Casanova
Artwork title: Touch–hcuoT
Artist statement: "This artwork explores the elusive boundary between the body and material, and questions where exactly one's body begins and ends."
Website: https://www.katecasanova.com/
Date: February 2020
Time: 6:15 - 9:15pm
Artist Name: Corin Hewitt
Artwork title: Excerpt from Wall (2010)
Artist statement: "In the video, printed photographic replicas of materials, tools, and the artist’s hands appear alongside “original” versions of each. The materials from the walls of the institution were supplemented with tools, computers, cameras, and printers to create a fragmented cube surrounding the tabletop where the video was being produced."
Website: http://www.lanemeyerprojects.com/
Date: February 2020
Time: 6:15 - 9:15pm
Note: Wall, 2010, originally commissioned by Western Bridge, Seattle Washington with production assistance by Maggie Carson Romano. In conjunction with Hewitt’s exhibition at Lane Meyer Projects.
CONTACT
Say hello and feel free to ask questions.
info@nightlightsdenver.com