Northern Lights

The experience of last night will never stop dancing inside and outside me. The aurora is multiplicitous: Sometimes it burns every inch of darkness in the sky. Sometimes it glows, or flows like gas. It can be white heat - clean heat, or a giant streak across the air. It dances ceaselessly transforming - never standing still. Journal Entry, 24 Nov 2014

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In November 2014 Griffyn Director Michael Sollis joined astronomer Fred Watson in the Arctic Circle in search of the Northern Lights, as a response to Griffyn's Southern Sky by Estonian composer Urmas Sisask. The resultant composition tells a magical tale of the aurora in a Snow White-esque land of ice and twilight. The premiere performances closely reflect the extraordinary use of light in the 'James Turrell: a retrospective' exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia.

National Gallery of Australia
Parkes Place,Parkes
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia