Director X's Nuit Blanc installation stays in place until January 5th at Ontario Science Centre
A World Stopping Nuit Blanc Installation by Director X
By Stephen Weir: Spoiler
Alert! Everyone dies, including the Sun, in Director X’s new art installation Life of the Earth and Death of the
Sun.
On Saturday night and early Sunday morning, as part
of the Nuit Blanche festival, the Ontario Science Centre stayed open to
show-off Director X’s latest creation. Set in a large open space inside a lower
level gallery a huge white balloon hangs
from the ceiling. Using large-scale
projectors, the orb becomes first a rotating and aging planet Earth and then it
is our Sun evolving and eventually dying.
Both the Earth and the Sun are shown as if seen
from space moving from the past to real time and into a not so great future.
On a near by
wall a huge LED display’s charts the collapse of the sun and show
pictures of life on earth from the beginning of time, to now.
Throughout the night people trickled into the
exhibition space, sitting on on the floor and leaning against the walls to immerse themselves in this massive multimedia work. The Science Centre describes Director X’s Life of the Earth as” a reflection on
humanity, environmental destruction and the planet's sixth and current mass
extinction of plant and animal life.”
The companion piece, Death of the Sun, premiered originally at Nuit Blanche 2016. The two projections have a life beyond the now ended art festival. The installation will remain operational until January 5th 2020.
Canadian contemporary
artist Director X (Brampton’s Julien
Christian Lutz) is a
renowned director/producer of popular music videos and feature films. For over
twenty years he has directed some of the world’s best music video for artists
including Drake, Justin Beiber, Rihanna, Jay-Z and Sean Paul. Last year the 45-year old directed the
remake
of the feature film Super Fly starring Trevor Jackson.
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