Lumia: Performing Light

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Paisley's newest art space, The Art Department, in collaboration with Place Partnership at One Ren, is delighted to announce the opening of its first exhibition, Lumia: Performing Light!

About Lumia: Performing Light

This will be the first Lumia exhibition to take place in Scotland. Place Partnership at One Ren commissioned the exhibition from Trent Kim of University of West of Scotland.

The exhibition is open to the public from Wednesday 13th April – Sunday 17th April 2022 and has been commissioned by Place Partnership at One Ren as a taster event for the development of the new Paisley Film & Media Space. In this exhibition, projection and inventive light experiments are presented for the viewer to explore.

Kim explores a deeper structure of lighting that is unfamiliar to our everyday practices with light, and situates Lumia, a long-forgotten art form of lighting, across its historical and contemporary contexts between performance and animation. Kim seeks ways to connect history, theory and practice of Lumia for its continuing history.

The show also features two guest artists, George Stadnik and Joshua White – legendary figures in the field of Lumia - to form an aspect of a group show, igniting a creative dialogue within the community of contemporary Lumia artists.

Lumia emerged as an art form in the inter-war period in the US. Initially, Thomas Wilfred (1889-1968) with like-minded artists including Claude Bragdon and Van Dearing Perrine, exploring the idea of light as a sole medium of expression. Soon Thomas Wilfred pursued his vision along and established Lumia as an independent art form of light. Lumia began as an avant-garde performance practice which he called ‘recitals’ but it was also referred to as mobile colour from the perspective of visual art.

Muriel Ann MacLeod, Creative Producer, Place Partnership, commented: “We’re thrilled to be launching this exciting exhibition in Paisley’s newest art space, The Art Department. Trent and his colleagues have worked incredibly hard to create this exhibition and it is really great to be able to show some exhibition pieces from major Lumia figures like George and Joshua. The exhibition offers a meditative and contemplative experience for the viewer as they walk through it, using colour and light to transform and inspire.”

Born in 1981, Trent Kim is a Korean-born, Scottish light artist based in Glasgow. Kim is a full-time lecturer in New Media Art at the University of West of Scotland. Kim trained as a theatre lighting designer before expanding his creative practices onto visual music (music for eyes) and Lumia (a historical art form of performance using light as a sole medium).

Please note this is a Moving Light Exhibition. There will be strobe effects with some of the exhibits.

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