Dune
Daan Roosegaarde
6.30pm – 10.30pm (last admission 10.15pm) | Cathedral Cloisters
Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde’s Dune has been seen all over the world and is now permanently installed in Rotterdam, but it has never before been seen in a location as atmospheric as the Cloisters of Durham Cathedral.
Setting for Hogwarts in the Harry Potter movies and home to a hibernating colony of Pipistrelle bats, the Cloisters provide the perfect twilight setting for this interactive piece. The visitor passes along a densely-planted row of illuminated ‘flowers’, triggering light and soundby their movements. Dune is an astonishing hybrid of nature and technology: a sustainable artwork using no more power than a single 60watt lightbulb, it is at once eerie and exhilarating – a sort of Alice in Technoland!
Your Comments
This would have been a lovely piece to enjoy in solitude, watching the lights respond to my passage. In a crowd it didn’t really work: the lights rarely had a chance to go out.
Jean Rogers | 17 November 2009 | Durham
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Daan Roosegaarde
Daan Roosegaarde is an artist working in Rotterdam. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Enschede and received a Master at the Berlage Institute, a Postgraduate Laboratory of Architecture in Rotterdam. He is currently the Creative Director of Studio Roosegaarde, an artistic laboratory for interactive projects, which won the Dutch Design Award 2009. Daan’s work develops new interactive technology and designs and aims to engage the audience, reacting to sound and motion. His interactive projects have been exhibited at V2_, Netherlands Media Art Institute Montevideo, Tate Modern London, YCAM Japan, National Art Center Tokyo, Venice Biennale 2009 and the Victoria & Albert Museum.
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Cathedral Cloisters
The Cloisters, Durham Cathedral, Durham, DH1 3EH
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