Theme
Since 2011, Lighthouse has been taking our programmes beyond our own venue, and has been creating work in response to an annual theme.
In 2012-13 our theme is Uncharted Territories. This year Lighthouse will navigate and explore new territory through a programme that examines the fundamental human urge to explore, map and understand new territories – real and metaphorical. Lighthouse will act as a navigational beacon for international co-operation in a year when the UK welcomes the world to its shores for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Uncharted Territories marks a series of important historical and contemporary voyages. 2012 sees the maiden voyage of The Boat Project, an extraordinary new sailing boat, built collectively by the people of the South East region, under the direction of artists, Lone Twin. To celebrate this extraordinary project, we have co-commissoned two major new works for Brighton Festival 2012 – I See Infinite Distance Between Any Point and Another by Turner Prize nominees, The Otolith Group, which will open at Fabrica, and Sea of Voices by Invisible Flock, an interactive journey between Fabrica and the Brighton Marina, where The Boat Project will be docked in May.
In June of 2012, the world will witness the last Transit of Venus for 100 years, an astronomic event which historically inspired some of the great maritime voyages, including James Cook’s voyage to the South Pacific, which led to the discovery of New Zealand and Australia. Invisible Flock’s work, Sea of Voices, references this important event. 2012 also marks the 100th anniversary of the sailing of the Titanic from the South East port of Southampton, into the uncharted waters of history.
Our residency programme for creative technologists, Happenstance, is all about creating an environment for unexpected outcomes, and serendipitous discoveries. Through this programme, Lighthouse, together with our partners Site Gallery, Spike Island and Caper, will be discovering how digital technology is reshaping the territory we exist within.
In a year marked by internationalism, Lighthouse is pleased to be presenting the work of leading international digital artists, creatives and filmmakers at major forums such as Brighton Digital Festival and Brighton Photo Biennial, and to extend our global networks with exciting new partnerships.
We look forward to telling you more about our Uncharted Territories programmes in the coming months.
Last year, Lighthouse explored the shape of our post-cinematic world guided by the theme, Beyond Cinema. Transformed by the possibilities offered by digital technology, moving image is becoming dislocated from its cinematic context, and is increasingly pervasive and mobile. In a programme of exhibitions, commissions, workshops, talks and courses, we explored how artists and filmmakers are bringing moving image experiences to outdoor spaces and disused buildings, creating cinematic experiences from digital data, making cities more intelligent through augmented reality, and working with the language of film to create sensuous environments.
We launched Beyond Cinema at Brighton Festival 2011, with two exhibitions by Kutlug Ataman and Lynette Wallworth, which used the language of film to articulate uniquely human responses to political disorder. Later in the year, our thematic explorations continued with a major locative cinema work by Blast Theory; an exhibition of digital film installations by Semiconductor; a new moving image art commission by rising star, Claire Hooper; Past Present, a work that used digital technology and archival film to bring history to life and an innovative training lab on motion capture technology.
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