Three Works from Montreal’s Quartier des Spectacles Will Shine in Ottawa and Beyond

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December 5, 2016

Three interactive installations created in collaboration with the Quartier des Spectacles Partnership will be part of the Holiday magic in Ottawa, Washington, and two cities in Europe.

Prismatica has already been installed on Parliament Hill in Ottawa as part of the city’s participation in the Christmas Lights Across Canada event. The same installation is also a feature attraction on the banks of the Potomac River in Washington, DC, for the Georgetown GLOW exhibition of illuminated public art (December 1 to January 1).

Created by RAW Design in collaboration with ATOMIC3, the participatory installation features 50 multi-coloured prisms that will collectively form giant kaleidoscopes on their respective sites in the two national capitals. Prismatica was originally presented in the Quartier des Spectacles in the winter of 2014-15 as part of Luminothérapie.

After a stop in London in October, Impulse continues its European tour with stops in Brussels and Lugano. From November 25 to January 1, the Belgian capital will host the famous illuminated seesaws as part of the city’s Plaisir d’hiver winter festival, where the installation will be one of the centrepieces of the popular event’s program. This is the second time Brussels has featured works first presented in the Quartier des Spectacles: the city also hosted the immersive Iceberg by ATOMIC3 in the Place de la Monnaie in 2014.

Meanwhile, the city of Lugano, Switzerland, has decided to make Impulse a winter attraction for its new cultural centre, Lugano Arte e Cultura, one of the country’s largest cultural institutions. The installation, created by Lateral Office and CS Design, was first presented in Montreal’s Place des Festivals last winter. Lugano residents can explore and play with it until January 8.

The agglomeration of Cergy-Pontoise, one of the regional centres of the Greater Paris area, will present the illuminated field of Entre les rangs, which delighted Montrealers three years ago. With its 28,000 flexible stems topped with reflectors, the work by KANVA is a luminous metaphor for a windswept wheat field. The installation will glitter in Grande Centre district of Cergy from December 10 to January 1, as part of the Lumières d’hiver event.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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