The Guerrillas assembled at BDP’s Ducie Street offices from 18:00 for final briefing before setting off for the planned target sites. The weather didn’t let us down and can only be described as a freezing cold, wet evening, but thankfully this didn’t put the guests off and they turned out in force.
Site 1 on Beaver Street brought many a giggle as the entrance to the car park was is in use 24 hours, so the final lights in the road saw people dashing around to put them in place to avoid them being crushed by a car.
Site 2 Railway Arches; an extremely dark unwelcoming area of the city became a bright, vibrant and somewhat inviting place to be, once the Guerrillas had brought some fantastic light to this area.
And finally, Site 3 the TCS Car Park on Ducie Street. By now its getting late and everyone is cold, but in surprisingly fantastic spirits. Everyone into position on the various levels, lights in place, claxon sounds – strike a pose (and hold it, for what seems like an age).
Well done to everyone who took place, we certainly feel this event was a huge success and the final photographs certainly prove this.
Last Saturday (12.12.09) a group consisting mostly of children aimed their torches at three targets in order to light up their own neighbourhood.
The neighbourhood with its surroundings are the former grounds and buildings of a mental hospital. The hospital was shut down in 1994 and the buildings were renovated into apartments after long debates in 2005.
The chosen targets consisted of the old administration building (not yet renovated), a group of trees and the old festival hall.
Big thanks to the Finnish ”City of Light”, Jyväskylä, for lending the torches!
After the award winning success of the previous Manchester Guerrilla Lighting event in 2006 and the following boom of events around the world Guerrilla lighting has returned to Manchester.
Guerrilla lighting is a war on bad lighting, guerrilla lighting is a protest against wasteful use of light, but most of all, guerrilla lighting is about having fun and raising the awareness of the power of light.
BDP Lighting would like to invite you to this year’s event taking place on the 1st of December commencing at our Manchester studio with a brief presentation, guerrilla lighting and an after party at a nearby venue for everyone to celebrate the success of our evening.
Guerrilla Lighting Istanbul was a huge success.
Thanks to Emre Güneş from PLD Türkiye and Korhan Şişman from Planlux. All designs by Faruk Uyan.
Please see further images and videos in our gallery to the right.
Guerrilla Lighting returned to Belfast for the second time on the night of Friday 25th September as part of Culture Night Belfast.
A team of architecture students from Queen’s University Belfast created transient lighting designs for five sites around the city’s cultural Cathedral Quarter.
Thank you to everyone involved, especially the students, Kresanna Aigner, Keith McAllister and Tim Kerr.
The results can be seen in the Belfast Redux gallery. Photographs by Nadine Stewart.
If you have any more photos, please email chantelle@guerrillalighting.net and we will add them to the gallery.
Guerrilla Lighting event will be organized for the first time in Tampere. The starting point of the guerrilla march is from the main entrance of Frenckell office building on September 17th at 20:00.
Guerrilla Lighting Event is organized by lighting design students from TAMK School of Art and Media, headed by lighting designers BA Annukka Larsen and BA Antti Hiltunen.
The objective of this event is to raise discussion on city lighting, especially the poor maintenance. Young lighting design students have selected four targets for illumination in Tampere and also made designs for each one.
Event is organized in co-operation with Super Mukava design store and it is a part of a new DesignOnTampere –happening. www.designontampere.com
We’re in Torun, Poland for three Guerrilla events in the next few days as part of the Skyway 09 light festival.
Skyway 09 includes work from artists, scientists and designers from across Europe, with a number of installations, interventions and actions taking place across the medieval city, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
The festival is part of Torun’s bid to become European Capital of Culture in 2016.
Guerrilla Lighting event will be organized for the first time in Tampere. The starting point of the guerrilla march is from the main entrance of Frenckell office building on September 17th at 20:00.
