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NVA to attempt the Speed of Light

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By The Drum Team, Editorial

September 29, 2009 | 3 min read

Glasgow-based NVA has been shortlisted to create 2012 Cultural Olympiad.

The Speed of Light is one of five proposals to be shortlisted for the Cultural Olympiad 2012, a programme of 12 major artistic events to take place around the UK at the same time as the Olympic and Paralympic games. It will be "a celebration of human potential and sporting efforts on one of Scotland’s best known natural assets", Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh.

If the team wins the vote, it will allow them to work on a large scale once more, as it did with The Storr: Unfolding Landscape and The Path.

NVA’s proposal, entitled The Speed of Light, will go to a judging panel in Mid-October.

The work aims to create iconic imagery of physical interaction with the landscape on an immense scale, through the invention of a new human-powered ‘energy harvesting’ lighting system worn by a moving audience, who will ascend set routes to the summit of the hill. NVA will also collect and catalogue stories from local and international contributors looking at what motivates people to take part in endurance events.

Athletes of all ages and abilities, professional and amateur, will be viewable from various points each lit in their own colour coding. Moving at the differing speeds of each physical discipline across and around the hill, flowing animated light patterns will build and ebb, revealing sharp bursts of red from sprinters on the glen floor or green light trails behind endurance runners all silhouetted on the Salisbury Crags.

You can leave a comment of support on all shortlisted projects at http://www.artiststakingthelead.org.uk/scotland

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