This year the spirit of Northern Spark 2017, the all night long city wide art event along the Green Line, was dedicated to the desire to make a difference through action. Through hundreds of participatory performances, installations and surprising experiences, this year’s festival asks: What are the actions we can take individually and collectively to cumulatively create the conditions for change?
Besides riding the light rail to mingle with festival goers, Blue Lady was invited to join two collectives for Northern Spark. Both had themes relating to water and individuality...
The first was the Million Artist Movement that created an installation called Relative Water Liquid Spirit: Healing Art Structure and Creative Environment, designed for people to become aware that their bodies are made up of water. By guiding people through the water cycle of evaporation/transpiration, condensation, precipitation,and collection, we were prompted to question identity and what is possible.
And next, Wavelets Creative, iNMiGRATiON created a dynamic sound and video interactive performance installation that reminds us of how we got here, and where we come from. Life first formed on Earth in Water. Water was the necessary ingredient for all those molecules to configure themselves into the miracle of life. Water is life, and life is movement. Everything is constantly in motion – our cells, bodies, families, communities, and planet. Movement and migration is a defining aspect of our pasts, presents, and in our increasingly climate-changed future.
