AC/DC Platform, 2013 (left)

Opalescent acrylic glass podium, LED lights, 3 plugs, 2 AC/DC snakes

Assembled from multiple adapters, plugs and nightlights, AC/CD snakes were first created in 1995 at the occasion of Parreno’s exhibition Snow Dancing at Le Consortium in Dijon. The podium is lit from the inside in a predetermined rhythm; the nightlights glow in the intervals when the lights of the podium are dimmed.

Flickering Light, 2013 (center)

LED light, 1 programmed chip

The light in the vertical lamp is programmed using a DMX controller to flicker in a predetermined rhythm. At the artist’s 2013 solo exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo 56 of the lamps were programmed to flicker in correspondence to a timecode based on Igor Stravinsky’s Petrushka.

Flickering Labels, 2013 (right)

Electronic paper, 2 parts

Programmed to vary in brightness and to display text that scrolls in changing speeds, Flickering Labels combine information typically found on wall labels with passages from Philippe Parreno’s 1995 book Snow Dancing, a narration of an imaginary event yet to take place, followed by the staging of that event at Le Consortium, Dijon the same year.

Photo © Andrea Rossetti