NVA’s Ghost Peloton Glasgow
12 & 13 November
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NVA’s internationally touring public artwork Speed of Light will arrive in Glasgow for the first time with a powerful re-staging of Ghost Peloton at the Whisky Bond, Port Dundas on 12 and 13 November.
Using cycling as the core of mass communal movement incorporated within stunning large-scale projection and set to an original score, a collective of ghost bikes and riders will be illuminated using NVA’s bespoke LED light suit which can instantaneously change colour, flash-rate and luminosity. Inspired by the wheel in motion, the movement of massed participants choreographed by Phoenix Dance Theatre will transform the canal-side landscape of Port Dundas into an open canvas carrying a new visual language of light in motion.
“The fluidity is breathtaking and becomes, as darkness falls, oddly moving. The peloton starts to resemble a mass of sensors, restlessly taking the temperature of the evening sky. This is the mystery of public art, that if done well it can create an invisible barrier around itself, placing it in a magically different world from the ‘real’ one just inches away.” – Laura Thompson, The Telegraph
The event will be the first of its kind in Port Dundas, Glasgow’s newest Cultural District, which is the focus of a radical regeneration vision to become a vibrant new city neighbourhood sitting on the Glasgow Canal, with incredible views over the city’s skyline. Ghost Peloton will be staged outside the Whisky Bond on the 12th & 13 of November.