Under the Artistic Directorship of Iain Grandage, the 2024 Perth Festival is inspired by the theme of Ngaangk (a Noongar word meaning sun or mother). Giver of life and light, Ngaangk is the ultimate creator – rising, surely, each morning at dawn to break the still darkness of night. Ideas of light and perception, so critical to the experience of the visual arts, punctuate the 2024 Perth Festival program, across a series of projects that encourage consideration of related themes of sustainability,
growth and nourishment, and the tension between heat as both a creative and destructive force.
The iconic central glass dome within the now disused Carillon City becomes an abstracted timepiece with Rebecca Baumann’s architectural intervention Light Event. Engaging with ideas of temporality and permanence, Light Event dramatically alters the space through the application of dichroic film on the atrium windows. A dynamic material, dichroic film shifts colour when viewed from different angles, transmitting a different coloured light in the
spectrum to that which it reflects.
