ADELAIDE CRESCENT
NOV 2003
When the individual feels, the community reels - Aldous Huxley
The Glow Project was a spectacular after-dark multimedia event with a HUGE difference.
Images contributed by local people and artists were projected onto Adelaide Crescent, a mid-19th century residential development in Hove, UK.
Glow was the creative vision of Nathalie. She sourced the visual narrative from scores of people where the event took place. The Glow Project tapped into the emotional lives of people who lived behind the walls on which the projections were shining, illuminating their stories outside in the city, beyond the membranes of their existences.
In Adelaide Crescent, the residents revealed their most precious treasures - photographs, objects, artworks - sharing their stories and lives to create a spectacular collective event. Nathalie orchestrated the project, contextualising images contributed by the community within her own artistic framework. This collective energy gave Glow a creative life of its own, which had a powerful impact on both passers-by and those who took part.
The Glow project aimed to alter people's lives and perspectives of each other by bringing them together and enabling them to celebrate individual creativity and experiences in a shared setting.
Through a mesmerising visual event, using the latest projection technology, Glow directed the light at "us", making "us" the main actor of our own story. A photo album of a community… of Humanity.
Photography by Nigel Swallow, Nigel Chaloner, David Thompson, Katta Gyondiosis.
Special thanks to Ross Ashton and ETC Ltd for sponsoring the event, for bringing their amazing technology and expertise on board… for believing in the project and allowing me to have complete creative autonomy all throughout the project.