{"id":15487,"date":"2016-08-30T09:02:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T08:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/squirrelnation.co.uk\/?p=15487"},"modified":"2016-09-15T06:50:34","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T05:50:34","slug":"natures-switch-shuffle-and-lumen-long-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.squirrelnation.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/08\/30\/natures-switch-shuffle-and-lumen-long-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature’s Switch @ Shuffle and Lumen Long List"},"content":{"rendered":"

Louie and Ody Performing Live to Nature’s Switch at Shuffle Festival; IMAGE credit: Moty<\/em>
\nWe had a great time at Shuffle Festival<\/a>\u00a0last year and were excited to be invited back again with\u00a0a screening of Nature’s Switch to a live performance of a new score composed by original composer Louie O’Grady and collaborator, Ody Constantinou.\u00a0The festival took place over 24 hours and year’s theme was God’s, Idols and Light, so our film was perfect for the programme. As the sun set, Nature’s Switch was performed and again in the early hours of the night.<\/p>\n

Shuffle was totally chilled. As the festival crew set up, breakfast was served and audiences welcomed in \u2013 a mix of artists, local residents and art lovers spilling in gradually to a cemetery in a forest clearing in the East End. We are incredibly grateful to Rosie and Emily at Wellcome Collection<\/a>\u00a0who originally commissioned the film and who supported us to develop the live score, which gave the composers studio time to experiment, in Berlin, where Ody is based.<\/p>\n

Massive thanks also to Kate, Director of Shuffle who made us really welcome and secured Arts Council England funding to support the performances.<\/p>\n

Plus, some good news, Nature’s Switch was selected from 550 films submitted from 35 countries to be long listed for the Lumen Prize. The longlist was announced\u00a0in London on 13 July at the Electronic Visualisation and the Arts Conference<\/a>. \u00a0The jury\u00a0are Douglas Dodds, Senior Curator at the Victoria & Albert Museum, WeiWei Wang, Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) Shanghai Curator, Tessa Jackson, UK based Gallery Director, Bruce Wands, Artist and author and Canadian\u00a0filmmaker, Michael Fukushima. The public can also vote\u00a0via\u00a0the\u00a0People\u2019s Choice Award. For a limited period, the public can view the films, including Nature’s Switch, and register to vote for\u00a0any of the\u00a0long listed films\u00a0for the People\u2019s Choice Award in the\u00a0Online Gallery<\/a>. Nature’s Switch can be viewed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0winners are announced on 29 September 2016 at the Lumen Winners\u2019 Gala at Hackney House, London. All\u00a0shortlisted work\u00a0will be presented in the fifth global Lumen Prize exhibition tour, which travels from\u00a0Shanghai to New York City to London, Leeds and Caerphilly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Louie and Ody Performing Live to Nature’s Switch at Shuffle Festival; IMAGE credit: Moty We had a great time at Shuffle Festival\u00a0last year and were excited to be invited back again with\u00a0a screening of Nature’s Switch to a live performance of a new score composed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,172,7,173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-culture","category-music","category-screenings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squirrelnation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squirrelnation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squirrelnation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squirrelnation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squirrelnation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15487"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.squirrelnation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15500,"href":"https:\/\/www.squirrelnation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15487\/revisions\/15500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squirrelnation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squirrelnation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squirrelnation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squirrelnation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}