Location: Walkergate
Inspired by the Hindu festival of Holi, audiences will play with a million digital colour particles.
World-renowned studio, OCUBO, presents the UK premiere of Holi, an interactive artwork with an original soundtrack, inspired by the famous colourful Hindu festival, Holi. OCUBO invites people to express themselves at Holi by throwing joyful digital colours onto the Gala Theatre wall through hand and body gestures. First exhibited in Lisbon and in Doha, Qatar, this digital adaptation of the Holi festival will spread one million digital colour particles in real-time.
About OCUBO
Since 2003, the skilled international studio OCUBO has dazzled audiences worldwide with the production of elaborate light artworks and light events. Using light and technology, their artistic concepts invigorate urban landscapes with immersive video mapping experiences. Their remarkable works have graced large-scale cultural events turning real spaces into virtual ones through reality-bending optical experiences involving images and movement. OCUBO’s artistic installations and shows have contributed to some of the largest international light festivals, UNESCO World Heritage Sites, monuments and other public places, including London, Sydney, Lisbon, Singapore, New Orleans, Amsterdam, Sharjah and Melbourne. OCUBO has worked in 35 countries and has executed more than 200 projects viewed by more than 10 million people.
Sharing light with the people, empowering them to create with light, and giving them the opportunity to appropriate themselves to their own urban space – these are the mottos in each of OCUBO’s creations.
Image credit: Holi, Ocubo. Photo courtesy of the artist