White Space
About the event
Artist Matthias Oostrik presents White Space at ICK Dans Amsterdam during Amsterdam Dance Event: an interactive light installation where you interact with a rotating monolith of blue and white light together with other visitors. By coordinating your position and posture, you transform the empty space between people into light and sound. A light installation that you play together with others
White Space is an installation by artist Matthias Oostrik in which a rotating monolith of blue and white light takes center stage. The sculpture responds to the position and posture of everyone in the space. In this way, it becomes an instrument that you do not play alone, but together with strangers. Only by coordinating and synchronizing poses do you reach the climax: the empty space between people fills with light and sound.
Light, sound and human connection
Oostrik developed the soundscape of White Space together with composer Marcel Wierckx. The music is generative and draws from electronic dance music. As such, the work positions itself at the intersection of light art, club culture, and participatory performance. The installation is a production of the Harmonic Dissonance Collective, which Oostrik co-founded with Suzanne Dikker and is known for work exploring human connectedness.
More to see: an AI portrait installation
Alongside White Space, Oostrik also presents SMILE, an AI installation that transforms your portrait into an ominously perfect version of yourself. Both works can be seen at ICK Dans Amsterdam during the Amsterdam Dance Event.
