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Bright Lights in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
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by z | February 18, 2010 at 02:19 pm
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If you wander round the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver from Feb 12 to March 21 2010 you can see art installations for Bright Light commisioned for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics and Paralympic Games, and also throughout Vancouver there are light based art pieces for the Olympics, see Cultural Olympiad: Blinded by the Light.
However at night if you live facing north in the Downtown Eastside, you're most likely to see two giant flood lights shining in to your home from dusk 'til dawn, making the night turn to day, thanks to Vanoc's positioning of the lighting in the parking lot of the Media Centre on Waterfront Road. Whoever had this idea needs their eyelids removing so they can see what we have had to endure for the last 3 weeks.
Why they can't have positioned them facing the docks or towards the Media Centre is obviously beyond them, it's clearly so that everyone in the Downtown Eastside can see this particular light show and is "Blinded by the Light".
Bright Light is one of a wide variety of public art projects that have been commissioned to mark the occasion of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics and Paralympic Games. In the case of Bright Light, the intention is to animate the newly completed Carrall Street Greenway with projects that explore new understandings of public art. In today’s mobile, digital era, public art has moved beyond sculpture. Time-based multi-media, internet social spaces and even books can be understood as situations for public art.
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at 15:18 on February 18th, 2010
I live in the woodwards building, it is a complete joke, thanks Vanoc
at 15:34 on February 18th, 2010
oh my gosh, this is awful
at 18:27 on February 18th, 2010
First of all, you have conflated two separate and distinct public art programs. VANOC has funded the Cultural Olympiad, and Bright Lights is part of the City of Vancouver's Olympic and Paralympic Public Art Program. And secondly, to use a quote from the Bright Light website to describe a parking lot light installed by the organizers of VANOC that was never intended to be art at all, is just misleading your readers and shows a lack of research on your part. Oopsies!
at 22:32 on February 18th, 2010
I don't think that's quite what they were getting at.
at 11:02 on February 26th, 2010
Thanks for the tip, but I think it is very clear what they were getting at, I just think the way that they got there was a bit sloppy.
at 11:15 on February 26th, 2010
Excellent, I'm glad it's clear to you, probably not as clear as those floodlights are for me though.