Can’t make it to Beacon Park tonight? Still want to be a part of the ‘disco get down’? Not to worry, you can livestream “The Scene” dance floor with Nat Morris and friends!
“The Scene” stage will feature a large open-air dance floor in Circle Park (near Beacon Park), along with DJs, dancers, and other local talent. There will be a livestream projected on the corner of Woodward Ave. and Kirby St. You can also click the link to stream it from home: https://bit.ly/3o3Cy7L
DLECTRICITY partnering organization, The Carr Center, will feature artworks projected in their windows by artist Jason Philips during the festival, showcasing works from their current gallery exhibition, “Multifaceted: A Digital View of Jason Philips Work.”
Jason Philips is a Multidisciplinary artist whose work symbolically and metaphorically reflects narratives of people of the African Diaspora. His work shares a multitude of perspectives including those of Black joy, beauty, intergenerational trauma, racial inequity and ideas of home. Along with being a painter, he uses the human body as an artistic canvas in his tattoo work.
As a precursor to his respective solo exhibition opening this fall in The Carr Center, Philips work will be shown as a digital tryptic. Created through rear projection into gallery windows, enabling viewers to be engulfed in the monolithic scale of Philips work.
The Carr Center is located in the Park Shelton at 15 E. Kirby Street, near the DLECTRICITY Food Court.
DLECTRICITY’s signature Light Bike Parade is happening TONIGHT! You don’t need to register to participate! Come with your bike illuminated and take part in a show of light bike artistry for everyone to enjoy.
The 2021 Dlectricity Light Bike Parade starting point is at Traffic Jam Restaurant’s parking lot located on Canfield Street (between Cass and Second Avenues) just across the street from Shinola. The parade forms between 5pm-7:30pm and is planned to start at 8pm. This 3-mile mobile art installation will end at 9pm. We look forward to seeing you there!
#DLECTRICITY presents “Windows” by Pato y Pato, a light and sound installation that pays homage to the spirit of Charles Baudillaire’s revolutionary poem of the same name inspired by the rapidly changing urban landscape of Paris. Performed live and without the aid of computers, the project features live instrumental music alongside ever-evolving visuals, dreamscapes that pique the imagination and illuminate the imagined spaces beyond the screen.
Like the speaker of Baudrillard’s poem, we wander the City of Detroit, witness to its ever-changing landscape, and we wonder: Where am I in all of this? Windows encourages a response. See the live audio-video performance on the Beacon Park Stage TONIGHT and tomorrow at DLECTRICITY!
#DLECTRICITY presents “Death of the Last Tree” by Tom Carey, a shadow puppet play and anthropocene fairytale for all ages with an original soundtrack created by Kimberly Henninger and Shawn Parke. See it on DTE’s Beacon Park Stage TONIGHT and tomorrow at DLECTRICITY!
#DLECTRICITY presents “Is My Mind a Machine Gun?” by KESSWA and Shigeto, an extended audio visual performance of a video artwork installation on the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit’s Daily Rush platform. “Is My Mind a Machine Gun?” is a sonic meditation that explores abstract visual landscapes of the mind as a powerful tool. See it TONIGHT and tomorrow at DTE’s Beacon Park during DLECTRICITY!
Kesiena Wanogho, aka KESSWA, is an interdisciplinary artist from Detroit, Michigan. As a vocalist, producer, and director, her work integrates performance, sound, light, music and mantra. Zachary Saginaw—also known as Shigeto—is a drummer, producer, and DJ who has been making a space for himself in underground music globally over the last decade. Ann Arbor born and Detroit-based, Saginaw is primarily known for his energetic and versatile hybrid performances which integrate live and electronic instrumentation.
#DLECTRICITY presents “Shadow Machines” by Layne Hinton, a projection installation of delicate, crisp shadows of a small mesh sculpture. Building on old magic lanterns and other 17th-century projector technologies, these apparatuses present viewers with a duet of cinematic projections created without film.
As the focal lens shifts slowly forwards and backwards, the projected image appears to turn the small sculpture almost inside out. The visual illusion of shifting focus through an object leaves us unable to decipher the difference between the inside and the outside of the sculpture. Shadow Machines creates cinema out of the basic elements of light, time and space, without any film or moving images. See it projected outside the Detroit Institute of Arts TONIGHT and tomorrow at DLECTRICITY!
#DLECTRICITY presents “The Idea of Saving Aesthetics” by Orkhan Mammadov, an AI algorithm-evolving projection composed of analyzed traditional carpet designs and ornaments. Historically, carpets play a significant role in forming of Azerbaijan’s heritage and aesthetics. Different carpet schools share the same ornamental forms, such as geometric patterns, floral motifs, and calligraphic shapes, but some of the combinations are specific to certain regions.
The work poses questions about innovation and identity: how an entity must differ from the known to be considered original? How much should be identical to a collected “pre-set” for it to have kinship? See this project outside of the Detroit Institute of Arts TONIGHT and tomorrow at DLECTRICITY!
#DLECTRICITY presents “Lasers: Make Light Play” by Mike Gould and Illuminatus Lasers, an interactive laser art installation that enables visitors of all ages to control the kinetic laser displays projected on the Michigan Science Center. This celebration of light combines the playful talents of visitors along with dynamic, abstract laser art produced live by the Illuminatus Lasers team.
The audience interface is a series of fun, vintage lunch boxes with built in colorful, jewel-like, rotating knobs. Visitors control the brightness and speed of the shifting, dancing, wispy patterns in pure red, blue and green light evocative of the Aurora. This installation will be visible TONIGHT and tomorrow outside the Michigan Science Center. Perfect for kids and families!
#DLECTRICITY presents “Bird in Paradise” by New D Media, an installation that transforms the Wright Museum into a living vision of the revolutionary jazz scene in Black Bottom and Paradise Valley, Detroit’s booming black neighborhoods of the 1940’s.
What begins as a stylized resurrection of long lost nightlife in Paradise Valley soon becomes a soaring, hypnotic journey through time and space, shape and color, when the legendary Charlie “Bird” Parker comes to play. Through his music, the architectural facade itself becomes an instrument of memory, resilience, and liberation. See this installation TONIGHT and tomorrow projected onto the Wright Museum of African American History!
