AIRSHIP ORCHESTRA

ENESS

8 September – 9 October 2022

closing reception 9th October 7 - 10pm

RSVP gallery@giant.space

GIANT OFFSITE

THE TRIANGLE, BOURNEMOUTH

Airship Orchestra is an ambitious, joyous intervention that will see several large-scale inflatable, interactive sculptures installed in the town centre. Epitomising the overarching theme for Art Month – ‘PLAY’ – the sculptural environment of Airship Orchestra is one for all to engage with throughout its run.

Created by ENESS, a multiaward-winning art and technology studio led by Nimrod Weis, the custom light installation comprises 16 inflatables – some up to six metres – extending over a 500 square metre area. It is manifest as a mystical tribe of otherworldly characters beamed from the night stars, with glowing skin and voices like stardust. Visitors are beckoned inside the formation to bathe in volumetric sound and rhythmic light pulsation.

ENESS has designed ground-breaking experiences for cultural institutions across the world for the last 20 years and has become renowned worldwide for their transformational art experiences – work that speaks to the heart of what it means to be human. For Airship Orchestra, the sound experience is its own spatial environment, immersing visitors in an arresting score, written character-by-character for a multi-person choir. The generative soundscape synced with light creates an adventure that is aesthetically dynamic both day and night. The resulting music is minimal and reflective, enabling visitors to conjure their own interpretation about from where the orchestra materialised. Friendly LED eyes blink and follow visitors from creature to creature – inspiring artful, contemplative moments underscored by a rousing, rising rhythm to transport participants to another world.

ENESS is a multi-award-winning art and technology studio, led by Artist and Founder Nimrod Weis. The studio has designed ground-breaking experiences for cultural institutions across the world for the last 20 years. ENESS creates interactive artworks that forge greater community connection in the public realm through joy and happiness. In this way, the studio collective consider themselves to be Happiness Architects. At the heart of all ENESS work is joyful, cross-generational connection. ENESS strives to change public space by introducing unexpected and surprising work that forges deeper moments between friends, family and community; even enabling strangers to meet and find common ground.

Founded in 1997, ENESS is a multidisciplinary team of creatives including artists, musicians, software engineers, industrial designers and a writer. ENESS pioneered the art of 3D projection mapping and interactive real-time motion tracking, breaking new ground and creating firsts that have since become accepted design solutions. The studio has been commissioned to produce and install artworks worldwide for signature commercial buildings; urban and cultural precincts; festivals, galleries and museums of modern art.

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