From 6 to 8 February, Llum BCN is holding its fifteen edition and, yet another year, the TNC is participating in the event with two installations located in the gardens of the theatre.

This year the light arts festival, with the theme “Night Landscapes”, offers a different, magical night-time experience of architecture, stripping it of its functionality and embracing experimentation to explore the full potential of buildings, streets and squares.

Fremor

Marc Vilanova

Plaça de les Arts 1 

Urban infrastructures generate inaudible subterranean vibrations that affect plants, animals and insects: low-frequency waves produced by underground transport, road tunnels and power plants. Marc Vilanova captures these vibrations using geophones and translates them into visible mechanical movement. On the elevated walkway of the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, tall luminous tubes move slowly, driven by synchronised motors that follow the pattern of the captured sound waves. An installation that makes the inaudible visible to reveal the subterranean noise pollution that silently inhabits the space beneath the city.

With the collaboration of Teatre Nacional de Catalunya and Generalitat de Catalunya.

Marc Vilanova (Capellades, 1991) is a sound and visual artist who explores the relationship between art, science, nature and technology. His work encourages active listening to voices often ignored by the anthropocentric paradigm, with the aim of creating spaces for reflection that challenge the limits of sensory perception. He has received first prize at the Radical dB International Sound Art Performance Competition (2014) and second prize at the Temps de les Arts awards (2021), among other distinctions.

La espalda del mundo | Relingo

UPC-CCCB Màster en Disseny i Producció d’Espais

Sala Tallers (gardens). Corner of Ribes-Castillejos

This urban space, located at the back of the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya and on one side of Encants, configures a relingo: an urban void designed to be public space but closed to the city residents.   The installation invites the public to give life to this geographical residue using projected shadows that converse with the theatre facade, transformed onto a screen. Illuminated polycarbonate modules create changing atmospheres that fuse together bodies, reflections and movement. Each visitor participates and helps to create a collective experience that reveals hidden aspects of this forgotten place and make it become alive again.

UPC-CCCB Màster en Disseny i Producció d’Espais

Students: Bárbara Bahamondes Arredondo, Marion Beaudenon, J. Javier Coeto Cano, YaWen Huang, Maria Dolores Lajud Nayen, Jenifer Martín Bernet, Pablo Adolfo Meriles Carrizo, Joan Miró Fabregat, Josefina Orellano, Andrea Carolina Paredes Acosta, María José Pérez Cruz, Valeria Ramírez Ramírez, Leonardo Ezequiel Romero Gabisson, Luciana María Sotela López and Dana Williams

Advice: Juan Pablo Ramírez, Coque Claret Martí, Cristina Masferrer i Juliol, Cristina Ortega Romero, Giovanna Pezzullo, Carmen Rodriguez Pedret and Francisco Javier García Aguirre.