Category Archives: Arts

Artfest: Luminarium Levity II by Architects of Air

The other highlight of this year’s Artsfest for me was the Architects of Air piece in Eastside called Levity II. It is an inflatable maze-light light environment which uses contrasting semi-transparent and opaque plastics to create spaces that consist of one or more prime colours in a series of adjoining curved ‘rooms’.
When I was about [...]

By stef | Posted September 17, 2007 in Arts, Birmingham, Blog | Comments (3)

Artsfest: Friday was a Blast

ArtsFest, Birmingham’s free arts festival (and Europe’s largest apparently, if that means anything) kicked off on Friday with a fantastic piece of performance art/theatre/engineering/pyrotechnics/steampunkery called Blast.
I have to say that I was thoroughly impressed with the event. Gaffer-taped together dead technology, a vast sprawling space on an ambitious scale, dirty soot-covered artists hammering away [...]

By stef | Posted September 15, 2007 in Arts, Birmingham | Comments (1)

Back from holiday - here are a couple of new sites

I’ve been away. I was attempting to have a holiday but generally failing due to the curse of the crackberry.
So before Artsfest kicks off this weekend I thought I’d download a few thoughts into a blog post before this place gets filled up with photos.
Before going away, we managed to get a couple of projects [...]

By stef | Posted September 14, 2007 in Arts, Birmingham, Blog | Comments (9)