Mastodawn

Another memory of the super duper curator residency I did last year, thanks to Jude & Gemma from Things That Go On Things, and Light Up The North as well. Here's Dan Acher’s Borealis with the Barn Owl floating around Bolton in Put the Big Light On festival last year.

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Mia Kivinen 1d ago

Here's a photo by Petri Anttila, depicting the Lantern Park project of Lux Helsinki 2021, mentioned a few posts back. I was the third curator of the project, and since the lanterns prepared previously stayed in the roster, there were quite a many already when I started – in the end there were closer to 500, I think. During the five editions I was responsible, my foremost advice for the people preparing the lanterns was: go bonkers. And they sure did.

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Mia Kivinen 2d ago

Sfera by Alex Posada and Xevi Bayona, as seen in Zolnay light festival, Pécs, in 2019. I've seen it afterwards, too, for example in Vilnius last year. In Pécs it was in a shopping mall and in Vilnius in a church. You can imagine the difference the site makes.

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Mia Kivinen 3d ago

It's been a while since a Dan Flavin post, so here you go: another Untitled of his, seen at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, 2019.

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Mia Kivinen 5d ago

OPEN CALL: Genius Loci, Weimar, Germany. DL 14.6.2026.
https://www.genius-loci-weimar.org/en/competition-en.html

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Mia Kivinen 6d ago

Usually light art festivals are held in wintertime, and the hot weather felt quite extraordinary in Pécs, Hungary, while I was attending the Zolnay light festival in June 2019. I had an official reason to be there as a part of a Finnish delegate, but I admit I had to do a search to remember what it was (a panel, possibly also a talk). Anyway, it was a super fun trip and festival, and here's Alexander Salvesen's three pieces from his Light and Shadow of Fundamental Interactions -collection, shown at the festival.

More about why I and other Finns were there: https://letitbeartagency.com/finnfocus/

Alexander is on Pixelfed, but not posting much. As of yet. https://pixelfed.social/Zalvesen

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Mia Kivinen May 10

Glimmer, facilitated by Laura Brenchley, seen at Lumiere Durham 2025, is a wonderful example of a community based lightartwork often seen at festivals: a collection of lanterns. The lanterns may be done by a club, a workplace, by students or volunteers, or any group really, existing or gathered for the purpose – here, 400 community members from across County Durham. The process is a community-building one and the result gives pride for the makers, without too much pressure. The sheer volume makes these projects impressive, and a well chosen venue, like here, gives yet another layer for the whole.

I curated a similar-ish project for Lux Helsinki for some years, have to check if I have any decent photos of it.

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