THE NIGHT TERMINAL

A hybrid light sculpture/immersive audio-visual installation, THE NIGHT TERMINAL is a meditation on the multi-layered realities of shelter.
An attempt to reimagine transit spaces; the places between places, eternally on the way towards and the way back, sometimes filled with opportunities for choas, anxiety, uneasiness or expectation, as spaces for stillness and rest.

Employing real-time generated graphics projected onto wood and fabric frames, the installation takes on the physical guise of a futuristic transit shelter/taxi stage-like structure, suspended within beams of light within a soundscape characterised by the sounds of humanity going about the business of living; By re-imagining this space between as a voluntarily accessed time-shelter, it attempts to create and evoke the places one can stay still, without guilt, in a world always on the move . The places we go to breathe and to let go, The spaces of suspended progression; of safety and certainty, where the traveller can rest for a while as the rivers of existence that surround continue to flow by. 

ARTIST: SCARLETMOTIFF
PRESENTED AS PART OF THE EXHIBITON : IN TRANSIT UNDER ANOTHER SKY

FEATURING: LARRY ACHIAMPONG, LETARU DRALEGA, JESSICA ATIENO, KABI KIMARI, LIZ KOBUSINGE & DARLYNE KOMUKAMA, WEZILE HARMANS AND NEEMA NGELIME

PRESENTED AT: AFROPOCENE STUDIOLAB, KAMPALA + KAMENE CULTURAL CENTRE, NAIROBI

SUPPORTED BY: THE BRITISH COUNCIL, LUX, YINKA SHONIBARE FOUNDATION, G.A.S FOUNDATION

EXHIBITION CURATION: E.N. MIREMBE + ROSIE OLANG' ODHIAMBO

FOR THE NIGHT TERMINAL

AUDIO + VISUAL : SCARLETMOTIFF

TOUCHDESIGNER PROGRAMMING: SCARLETMOTIFF

WOODWORK: OFFCUTS ARTISANS

FABRIC + TEXTILES : DAPHINE NAKALYANTYA

PHOTOGRAPHY + VIDEO DOCUMENTATION: ETHEL AANYU, JOAB LUVINIA

MEDIUM:
PROJECTION MAPPED REAL-TIME GENERATED VIDEO ON SUSPENDED FABRIC + WOOD FRAMES, AUDIO
RUNTIME: 15MIN 45 SEC