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Tue 19th November 2024
4.30 pm
The Southbank Centre, London
Nathaniel Rackowe at The Southbank Centre
Join us for the unveiling of Desire Lines, Nathaniel Rackowe’s latest sculptural commission, on London’s iconic Southbank as part of the Winter Light Festival on Tuesday, November 19th. To mark the occasion we invite you to join us for the first public staging if the Desire Lines performance - made in collaboration with choreographer Angela Woodhouse and Nathaniel Rackowe, with sound design by Severin Black - responding to the Desire Lines sculpture. This immersive piece explores the dynamic relationship between light, movement, and audience interaction. Performances will take place at 5pm and 7pm.
Desire Lines is a new site-specific light installation by Nathaniel Rackowe, inhabiting the nine Thames side trees opposite the Southbank’s Royal Festival Hall.
The title refers to a term more commonly used to describe alternate pathways and routes through space, and the worn trace of footsteps that gives them away. However in this installation the lines are of light, their flowing movement an echo of those people moving past and around them.
A bright layer of geometric form intersects each tree, the tree itself becoming a vital part of the artwork, seeming to change as light and colour sweeps across it.
Desire Lines continues Nathaniel Rackowe’s ongoing investigations into the emotional perception of urban space, with a more recent focus on the intersection of built and natural form.
His often large-scale urban-referenced structures and light sculptures are designed to recreate the experience of navigating the city around us, evoked through the vicissitudes of light as it fluctuates throughout the city.
Location: Queen’s Walk, The South Bank, London, SE1 7PB (Riverside opposite Royal Festival Hall)
