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2019. For the most ambitious edition of Lumiere yet, a selection of favourite

artworks from previous festivals will sit alongside a host of new

commissions by international artists and fresh talent from the North East.

Free to attend, the festival (now in its 10th year) will reimagine the city

through dramatic installations, dynamic projections and reflective works,

which showcase the diversity and creativity of light art. The festival is

commissioned by Durham County Council, with additional support from
Arts Council England, Durham University and a host of further funders and

supporters.

Since the first edition, Lumiere has returned to the city every other year, as

well as lighting up Derry~Londonderry in 2013, during its year as UK City of

Culture, and London in 2016 and 2018. The festival has become an
important part of Durham’s identity, so much so that it has become known

as the ‘Place of Light’.

The 10th anniversary of Lumiere will transform Durham into a magical

winter nightscape with extraordinary new artworks and commissions,

including interactive installations where audiences manipulate or become
part of the art. Stones by artist collective Tigrelab Art (Spain) is a shape-

shifting video-mapped projection onto the facade of Durham Cathedral, that

visitors can change using stone tablets. Inspired by the coloured tiles that

characterise so many Portuguese cities, Human Tiles by Ocubo (Portugal)
will transform the exterior of Gala Theatre & Cinema into a kaleidoscope of

projected patterns created in response to the movements of visitors bodies

in real-time. Tug at the rope that propels Amelia Kosminsky’s floating

sculpture Celestial Brainstorm (UK) and sparkling neurons will be released

into the night sky; make music by rotating Stellar Projects’ The Stars Come
out at Night (UK); and fly up and down in a playground of illuminated see-

saws by Wave-Field Variation H by CS Design, L4 Studio (Canada).