LAURA BELÉM

Laura Belém’s interactive art installation Night of St John is a site-specific commission for Night of Festivals 2010. Re-created in Nottingham’s Old Market Square, it will promenade the audience to the Festival Hub, beneath a shimmering sea of 745 flags, accompanied by an audio montage of festival sounds. The work, evocative of the traditional Brazilian festival of the same name, explores how the perception of a public space can be altered by a visual and sound intervention. A visual signifier for the Festival, it reveals the importance of festivities and celebrations for different cultures and societies.

Laura Belém lives and works in Brazil and studied a Masters in Fine Arts at Central St Martins College of Art, London. She is quickly gaining an international reputation for her work having shown at 51st Venice Biennale and Prague Biennale I. Laura will be participating in this year’s Liverpool Biennial, showing Temple of a Thousand Bells, a new commission and trailblazer for Touched, Liverpool Biennial’s International 10 exhibition (18 Sep to 30 Nov 2010).  For further information visit:

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• When & Where

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  When

  Night of Festivals 2012
  Thursday 21 - Saturday 23 June

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  Time

  Daily 10am - 11pm
  

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  Where

  Old Market Square, Nottingham