10. September 2021 / 20:30 — 21:30
Nightcaps – guided night tour
with Alona Rodeh → Wartbergpark ↗︎
The installment of street lights in the 18th century achieved two interrelated goals: it reduced people's fear of darkness and expanded the time span of economic activities. Today, half of the world’s population, and with it animals and insects, live under the influence of intense artificial lighting. If artificial light is scattered at a certain angle, it disturbs the behavior of insects, birds and humans. In Nightcaps, Alona Rodeh questions the role that artificial lighting plays in the disruption of human and animal circadian rhythms, insomnia, fear of darkness–and the very regulations ensuring its disappearance. The artist proposes a re-training of our eye muscles to life in the shadows. Bringing back a sensory sensitivity that may have been lost in the wake of recent technological evolutions and finding innovative and practical solutions to reclaim some darkness on this over-exposed planet of ours. How can we embrace darkness and what can we gain from it?
The evening tour is a walk through the Wartberg Park, where prototypes conceived by the artist can be discovered–Nightcaps that look at the urban park and its surroundings through the historical and optical lens of light, shadow and darkness.
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Walk: 10.09.2021 / 8:30 – 9:30 pm
Meeting point:
Rundblick
Rathenaustraße 34
70191 Stuttgart
Please register here.
The installation can be visited continuously, from 09 to 19 September 2021 at , around the Egelsee and along the Straßburger Weg.