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Illuminations announces fifth anniversary blackout

By | Published on Tuesday 27 September 2016

Illuminations

London’s Illuminations Festival returns next month with a series of innovative events straddling music, art and film.

Discussing the event, Illuminations programmers Dan Monsell and Lisa Wright told CMU: “This year is the fifth anniversary year of Illuminations, and we have two events exploring darkness, as the winter nights close in. One is an event taking over the Museum Of London about the lost, found and dark sounds of London, and the second is an event in collaboration with a collective called Blackout”.

On the latter event, they explain: “Blackout – a night of music performed in total darkness – embodies the boundary-pushing and innovative ideas that Illuminations stands for. The line-up remains a secret throughout, which both removes any preconceptions for the audience and allows us to be supremely creative and playful with the curation”.

“It’s been proven that when once sense is deprived, your other senses become heightened”, they continue. “Without the visual element of performance, Blackout’s crowd are made to hear the music in a far more visceral way. We can tell you now – it’s going to be quite some journey for the audience, with the performers and what we have lined up”.

Illuminations runs from 28 Oct to 11 Nov. For the full programme, go to illuminationslondon.com



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