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France

Air Vag have produced installations across the world in Sydney, Manchester, Rome and their native France. Another installation by Air Vag, Symphonie Conique, was also part of the Lumiere Derry~Londonderry programme in 2013.

http://airvag-spectacle-gonflable-monumental

NOVAK are an award-winning creative studio based in Newcastle upon Tyne, specialising in motion design and immersive experiences. Their spectacular large-scale projection mapping works are rooted in the historical narratives of the sites they transform. They also create stunning 2D and 3D motion design for television, web broadcast and celebrated musicians. NOVAK have created works including 195 Piccadilly (2016), a projection using famous faces from the BAFTA archives for Lumiere London and Avenue (2018), a 65m projection for Northern Lights, Hull.

Ed Carter is a music composer and producer. He devises and creates interdisciplinary projects that are context-specific, with a focus on sound, collaboration, process and technology. He takes patterns, associations, rhythms and chronology, and uses these to form the structures of new site-specific projects.

Holland

Engaging in a world shifting from analogue to digital, Studio Roosegaarde is the social design lab of the Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde and his team of designers and engineers. The studio creates interactive designs exploring the dynamic relation between people, technology and space. It develops its own innovations and is internationally known for interactive projects such as Dune, Smart Highway and Waterlicht. Roosegaarde has been the focus of exhibitions at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Tate Modern, the Tokyo National Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, and won numerous international innovation awards. Studio Roosegaarde also has a vast experience in public space commissions for the cities of Rotterdam, Singapore, Eindhoven and Stockholm. Studio Roosegaarde has studios in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and Shanghai, China.

Daan Roosegaarde also created other installations for Lumiere, Liquid Space (Lumiere Durham 2011), Marbles (Lumiere Derry-Londonderry 2013) and Waterlicht (Lumiere London 2018).

https://www.studioroosegaarde.net

UK

Tim Etchells is an artist and writer based in the UK whose work shifts between visual art, performance and fiction. He has worked in a wide variety of contexts, notably as the leader of the world-renowned performance group Forced Entertainment. He is currently Professor of Performance & Writing at Lancaster University.

The other installations in this trio of works were Please Come Back and Let’s Pretend None of This Ever Happened.

http://timetchells.com

Born in Paris in 1972, Le Borge studied arts at École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (1994 – 1998). 

Le Borge works with the real and from the real. He seeks to integrate his work within movement, time and space, a living context, without preconceived ideas on the nature of the spaces he works with: interiors, exteriors, hyper-centers, suburbs, wasteland… each have their own qualities… their own poetry, different dimensions, visible or invisible, to offer. 

The environment, in its vast and many faceted reality, offers an infinite field of exploration. Urban space, so mundane, also becomes a creative playground: here, more so than elsewhere, he is integrated in reality, his reality, in the reality of the city: sometimes beautiful, sometimes sordid. He wants to transcend it, but his statement is not uniquely aesthetic or sensitive, it is also social and political: the city is the territory of ‘living together’.

He wants to point to the contradictions, rub up against opinions, question consciences, but also invite encounters, dialogue, exchange.