Light Trap

Four 16 mm projector performance with live sound 

Light Trap is a performance/live art piece using 4 prepared 16 mm film projectors with operators and a sound artist. The idea is to create a live (and continuously changing) light and sound volume/sculpture generated by equal degrees of randomness and control. Light Trap was conceived, in part, as a brutal homage to the film/installation Line Describing a Cone by Anthony McCall. It also references sound as image/image as sound work by the British artist Liz Rhodes (particularly Light Music) and Len Lye’s beautiful scratch masterpieces Free Radicals and Particles in Space. Light Trap harnesses the mechanisms of film and cinema; the projector, the film material, the darkened room and synchronized sound - while creating a radically different outcome; there is no screen, no (two dimensional) image, no seating and no beginning or end. The audience are left to contemplate the apparatus of cinema and the generation of light and sound - they can see the operators creating the outcome while simultaneously experiencing it.