Grain of Salt
Site-specific video art piece for projections for Staro Riga Festival of Lights as a part of Riga 2014, European Capital of Culture Program.
In a poetic and expressive aesthetical style the mapping projection uses grain of salt as metaphor that conveys important meanings by few means. The installation seeks inspiration in every form of human expression: image (visual art), sound (music), movement (dance) and word (poetry), and unites them into one art piece on the façade of St. Peters Church.
Client
Staro Riga Festival of Lights
Project Date
Nov 2014
Category
ROLE
Concept / Video art / Mapping
POEM
Don’t come to me with the entire truth.
Don’t bring me the ocean if I feel thirsty,
nor heaven if I ask for light;
but bring a hint, some dew, a particle,
as birds carry only drops away from water,
and the wind a grain of salt.
Olav. H. Hauge
CREDITS
Music: Arve Henriksen and Jan Bang
Dance: Simone Grøtte and Marianne Haugli
Poetry: Olav H. Hauge
Cinematography of dance: Hallgrim Haug
Translation of poetry: Snorre Karkkonen Svensson
Technical producer in Riga: Unlimited
Technical set-up in Riga: Solaris
14-18/11/2014 – Staro Riga Festival of Lights, Riga, Latvia
16-17/09/2016 – Factory Light Festival, Slemmestad, Norway
COMPOSITION VIDEO
The original animation
