Michael Alexander, Chancellor | University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Michael Alexander, Chancellor | University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Evanescent: Large-Scale Bubble Art Installation Coming to The Weidner Center
Aug 28, 2024
Using light and sound, Evanescent is “art-chitecture” that connects audiences with their environment and is designed to be truly inclusive by emulating the ethereal quality and magic of bubbles. The public is invited to experience Evanescent both during the day and at night. At over 20 feet tall, illuminated, and interactive – Evanescent is the Instagram-able, TikTok-worthy snapshot of the year. This free event is open to the public for viewing.
Made possible by generous support from the City of Green Bay and the 1923 Fund, Evanescent opens to the public just in time for UW-Green Bay to welcome back students and staff for the Fall 2024 semester. Evanescent is presented as part of The Weidner’s effort to expand the arts outdoors and in unexpected places.
The opening day of Evanescent coincides with the beginning of a free, three-week concert series on The Weidner’s Patio Stage. All campus members are invited to every concert to celebrate the start of the new semester. A cash bar will be available.
The sculpture will be on display at Estamos Aqui Festival Hispano – a Hispanic Arts & Culture festival now in its second year. The free outdoor festival will take place on Saturday, September 14 from 3 PM to 10 PM on the UW-Green Bay campus. Last year’s inaugural festival attracted over 8,000 people. Festival attendees can expect five live bands, over twenty food vendors, a mercadito, family activities, and more.
About the Art:
Evanescent means fleeting or vanishing quickly; impermanence.
The artwork was inspired during the Covid-19 pandemic when everything we took for granted started to disappear. Atelier Sisu endeavored to communicate this feeling of transient beauty through bubbles.
Sydney-based design studio Atelier Sisu works within art and architecture creating large-scale site-specific works that enchant by reinventing spaces.
By day, Evanescent uses color-reflecting dichroic film reacting to sunlight changes across the sky causing rainbow reflections across surfaces providing unique pictures from every angle.
This art-chitecture connects audiences with their environment emulating bubble's ethereal quality appealing universally encouraging viewers considering world transience fragility like bubbles.
About the Artists:
Atelier Sisu is an award-winning Sydney-based art practice led by Peruvian sculptor Renzo B. Larriviere and spatial architect Zara Pasfield.
They work with a multi-disciplinary team creating experiential environments installations unique sculptural pieces blending art architecture focusing particularly on public art aiming unique spatial experiences contributing visual identity promoting community interaction.
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