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 Tuesday through Sunday evenings [Plus MONDAYS in April 2021]
April 1 - 7, 2021
7:45pm - 11:59pm
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April 8 - 20, 2021
8:00pm - 11:59pm
---April 21 - 30, 2021
8:15pm - 11:59pm
FEATURED ART PIECES
Artist Name: WANG Chen
Artwork title: The Sin Park (excerpt), 2019
Artist statement: The time-based work presents a landscape of entangled elements and pulsating layers that together present ways of considering possibilities of imagined worlds. The Sin Park demonstrates numerous processes of making and breaking–– drawings, uniforms, performances, and sounds––which are built into an unsuccessful utopia.
Website: https://blackcube.art/exhibition/clock-watching
Date: Every MONDAY in April 2021
Time: See Calendar Above
Notes: "clock-watching" is an experimental group exhibition that subverts the measurement of time on a historic clock tower in downtown Denver. Rather than keep time in the traditional sense—by seconds, minutes, and hours—this exhibition explores tracking time by the day of the week through a series of newly commissioned nighttime video projections. Collectively, these digital artworks acknowledge the perception of time slowing down during the COVID-19 pandemic. "clock-watching" is curated by Black Cube Nomadic Museum.
Artist Name: Sabrina Ratté
Artwork Title: Radiances IV, 2017-18
Artwork Info: Radiances is a series of paintings in motion. Through a combination of 3D-animation, video synthesis, and digital manipulations, painterly textures and organic forms emerge to create animated landscapes.
Website: https://blackcube.art/exhibition/clock-watching
Date: Every TUESDAY in April 2021
Time: See Calendar Above
Notes: "clock-watching" is an experimental group exhibition that subverts the measurement of time on a historic clock tower in downtown Denver. Rather than keep time in the traditional sense—by seconds, minutes, and hours—this exhibition explores tracking time by the day of the week through a series of newly commissioned nighttime video projections. Collectively, these digital artworks acknowledge the perception of time slowing down during the COVID-19 pandemic. "clock-watching" is curated by Black Cube Nomadic Museum.
Artist Name: Michael Menchaca
Artwork Title: A Cage Without Boarders, 2021
Artwork Info: A Revolution of Guilty Masters partner with the U.S. military, U.S. intelligence Agencies, as well as local and state law enforcement to create a digital caste system. Machine Learning is applied to the criminalization and surveillance of Black and Brown communities, streamlining marginalization. Ask yourself, "What is happening behind the screens?"
Website: https://blackcube.art/exhibition/clock-watching
Date: Every WEDNESDAY in April 2021
Time: See Calendar Above
Notes: "clock-watching" is an experimental group exhibition that subverts the measurement of time on a historic clock tower in downtown Denver. Rather than keep time in the traditional sense—by seconds, minutes, and hours—this exhibition explores tracking time by the day of the week through a series of newly commissioned nighttime video projections. Collectively, these digital artworks acknowledge the perception of time slowing down during the COVID-19 pandemic. "clock-watching" is curated by Black Cube Nomadic Museum.
Artist Name: Stephan Herrera
Artwork Title: Digby's Daydream [Thursday Afternoon], 2021
Artwork Info: Digby’s Daydream follows the eponymous subject, Digby, through the course of his typical Thursday afternoon. The fictional character’s routine includes birdwatching, hallucinatory daydreaming, and a harrowing fall down a staircase.
Website: https://blackcube.art/exhibition/clock-watching
Date: Every THURSDAY in April 2021
Time: See Calendar Above
Notes: "clock-watching" is an experimental group exhibition that subverts the measurement of time on a historic clock tower in downtown Denver. Rather than keep time in the traditional sense—by seconds, minutes, and hours—this exhibition explores tracking time by the day of the week through a series of newly commissioned nighttime video projections. Collectively, these digital artworks acknowledge the perception of time slowing down during the COVID-19 pandemic. "clock-watching" is curated by Black Cube Nomadic Museum.
Artist Name: Esther Hz
Artwork Title: History Repeating, 2021
Artwork Info: History Repeating is a hand drawn, black-and-white animation that showcases a series of moving vignettes featuring object-based, abstract faces that playfully transform into various scenarios.
Website: https://blackcube.art/exhibition/clock-watching
Date: Every FRIDAY in April 2021
Time: See Calendar Above
Notes: "clock-watching" is an experimental group exhibition that subverts the measurement of time on a historic clock tower in downtown Denver. Rather than keep time in the traditional sense—by seconds, minutes, and hours—this exhibition explores tracking time by the day of the week through a series of newly commissioned nighttime video projections. Collectively, these digital artworks acknowledge the perception of time slowing down during the COVID-19 pandemic. "clock-watching" is curated by Black Cube Nomadic Museum.
Artist Name: Thea Lazär
Artwork Title: Shadows of Saturdays Past, 2021
Artwork Info: The Romans named the seventh day of the week Saturday after the planet Saturn, which in turn, was named after the god Saturn. In honor of Saturn––the god of generation, dissolution, plenty, wealth, agriculture, periodic renewal and liberation––the Roman Empire celebrated the festivity of Saturnalia. For a week in December, social structures and hierarchy were overturned––slaves, free men, and the elite partied together. At this brief moment, they were all on equal footing, wearing colorful festive clothing to level the differences. This work is a shadow of Saturdays past.
Website: https://blackcube.art/exhibition/clock-watching
Date: Every SATURDAY in April 2021
Time: See Calendar Above
Notes: "clock-watching" is an experimental group exhibition that subverts the measurement of time on a historic clock tower in downtown Denver. Rather than keep time in the traditional sense—by seconds, minutes, and hours—this exhibition explores tracking time by the day of the week through a series of newly commissioned nighttime video projections. Collectively, these digital artworks acknowledge the perception of time slowing down during the COVID-19 pandemic. "clock-watching" is curated by Black Cube Nomadic Museum.
Artist Name: Jan Chan
Artwork Title: Purring • HK-London, 2021
Artwork Info: Purring • HK-London examines how the pandemic has altered the perception of time, space, and freedom in Hong Kong through six scenes that explore varied subjects: the “Liberate Hong Kong” slogan, government manipulation, daily life, lack of human touch, surveillance, and masks. The title, Purring • HK-London, references a soothing cat’s purr, representing the artist’s desire to provide comfort and healing to his hometown of Hong Kong, from his current home in London.
Website: https://blackcube.art/exhibition/clock-watching
Date: Every SUNDAY in April 2021
Time: See Calendar Above
Notes: "clock-watching" is an experimental group exhibition that subverts the measurement of time on a historic clock tower in downtown Denver. Rather than keep time in the traditional sense—by seconds, minutes, and hours—this exhibition explores tracking time by the day of the week through a series of newly commissioned nighttime video projections. Collectively, these digital artworks acknowledge the perception of time slowing down during the COVID-19 pandemic. "clock-watching" is curated by Black Cube Nomadic Museum.
Artist Name: Dream Create Inspire Tour
Artwork title: By Any Dream Necessary
Artist statement:This mixtape highlights the feelings of liberation, specifically in the ways local creators in Denver have been able to maintain their joy coming out of a stressful year. It looks at the range of emotions, of struggle, of triumph of everyday people.
Website: https://www.dreamcreateinspiretour.com/
Date: April 16th, 2021
Time: 8:00pm - 9:00pm
Notes: Throughout 2021, DCI Tour will present their Visual Mixtape series on the 3rd Friday of every month. Join us for the showing of “By Any Dream Necessary,” a visual mixtape showcasing joy as liberation. Denver based artists explore and share their celebrations of love, life and power.
CONTACT
Say hello and feel free to ask questions.
info@nightlightsdenver.com