- Venue
- Phoenix Brighton
- Starts
- Saturday, October 29, 2011
- Ends
- Sunday, October 30, 2011
- Address
- 10?14 Waterloo Place Brighton BN2 9NB East Sussex UK
- Location
- South East England
A night of exhibition, performance, intervention, screening, music and contemplation.Brighton and Hove’s annual free all night arts festival returns. This year’s events are themed around Utopias and Phoenix Brighton will be hosting a very special event organised by The University of Sussex and curated by Helen Sloan of SCAN. The contemporary ‘ideal’ visitor to an art event is considered to be extrovert, visibly active and willing to participate. This extends to social networking where we are encouraged to share our lives, take part and interact in surveys, games and flash mobs. But what about people who want to be private and to share their experiences in more contemplative ways? Inspired by research on shyness from University of Sussex, Like Shadows offers the opportunity to experience and participate in events at a range of levels to suit the visitor. While most artworks gently encourage participation from the audience, there will also be quiet areas for different forms of engagement and reflection. As with all art, engagement is necessary to have a good experience but how you choose to engage is up to you. We hope that by midnight with the help of our cocktails you might want to dance! Artists include: Alexa Wright, Jeannie Driver, Anna Dumitriu, Tom Keene and Kypros Kyprianou, Alex May, Becky Page and others.
