LightNight 2018: Lime Street Piazza: Stanza

LightNight 2018: Lime Street Piazza: Stanza

When

18.5.18    
17:00 - 23:30

Where

Lime Street
Lime Street, Liverpool, L1 1JD, Liverpool

Event Type

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STANZA
17:00 – 17:00

Lime Street Piazza

Commissions, Streets

As evening falls on the city prepare for an encounter challenging your conception of modern poetry, in a new light installation by artist John Elcock that quite literally transforms sign into symbol. Head to the piazza in front of Lime Street Station where at the gateway to a changing city, you will be greeted with words of reflection and illumination. Stanza re-interprets a device all too familiar from our daily encounter with the modern world, into something altogether more enigmatic and less purposeful.

Fragments of text from his striking poetry will be displayed in a unique and powerful way to transform Lime Street into a place of quiet reflection and challenge the didactic trend of our information-led culture.  Continuing the Liverpool-tradition of painter-poets, Elcock’s writing is full of rich imagery, drawing on the themes of landscape, birds and symbolism found in his paintings and which in 2018 resulted in selection for the prestigious Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize exhibition, the UK’s leading competition for British contemporary representational painting. His three collections of poetry are published by The Artel Press.

johnelcock.co.uk

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