Time Drifts Jerusalem 2018 - Philipp Geist
10. Lights in Jerusalem Festival
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Jerusalem Light Art Festival / Time Drifts Jerusalem 27. June- 5 July 2018
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Jerusalem Festival of Lights 2018
Time Drifts Jerusalem by Philipp Geist 2018
VideoMapping & Ground Projection

Location: Batei Mahse Square in the Jewish Quarter (Old Town)

Light in Jerusalem Festival
10th Birthday Edition!!!

27/06-05/07 2018
From 20:00 - 23:00
Saturday 21:00-00:00
Friday June 29th closed
Free admission













The Artist Philipp Geist will develop the large scale walk able video mapping/ ground installation
„Time Drifts - Jerusalem“. In his light art installation Geist interprets the themes of space and time.
He avoids using canvases and projects directly on the facade, on the ground and on theater fog
streaming into the plaza. Abstract patterns and Words are projected onto the ground and visitors,
and they are reflected into the fog. Fog is, similar to time, always in a flux, you cannot hold or keep it.
The dissolving projection symbolizes the fragmentary knowledge and understanding of life in the past
and present, but knowledge is also secured and preserved in the form of text, clearly visible on the
concrete. The representations of history are being animated in the moment of the visitors
reflections. The dissolving projection symbolizes not only the fragmentary knowledge and
understanding of the life in the past, which is to be completed, but also the memory which must be
saved from disappearing and dissolving. Thus, Geist develops a dialogue with the location, his
artistic work and the people who are entering and leaving the gate and the square. The visitors can
be part of the installation by sending beforehand words via email. The visitor himself becomes part
of the projected image on the square. Words and abstract light painting with create an immersive
room.

This methodical approach to the theme 'time' is supported by the projected images themselves.
Words that relate to the topic both directly and indirectly cover the whole ground of the square.
Some terms and sentences are obvious references, some invite the visitor to think about the
phenomenon of time and its historical and cultural connotations. There will be single words,
quotations and proverbs. Words like „transition, fading, becoming, simultaneous,
timeless, time gate, metamorphosis, ?????†, period of time, ???†??????†, entrance,
beginning,..“

The installation invites the visitors to stay and contemplate, to detect meanings in the thick carpet
of partly overlapping words, it asks the visitors to create their own sentences and imagination. The
carpet's threads of words are woven chaotically, and it takes time and movements across the
square to see and decipher them. It is the poetry of the texts and the dream-like atmosphere that
will transform the location. For the Jerusalem installation, words of time and space of the local
languages hebraic and arabic, english. Especially in Jerusalem and its long history and its special
meaning the topic of time in a artistic poetic light installation is inspiring. The the installation creates
a bridge between the past and the present between cultural understandings and worlds.
In the images which are projected onto the gate, Geist creates a pictorial, abstract imagery on the
computer which also refers to time. Geometrical, spatial forms like squares, cubes, perforated
planes, lines and rays, overlay each other in an on-going process and build up a complete picture
in order to dissolve it right away. The various elements create a complex architecture of images
which is always in a state of flux. By displaying depth and three-dimensionality, the work
symbolises the constantly developing, enlarging space of continuing time lines, and represents the
complex networks emerging from different spatial components spreading in the course of time.
The installation project is part of a series of installations named Time Drifts. Geist was able to
present the site-specific installation in different countries and locations. 2018 in Frankfurt at the
Römer Frankfurt Fades, in 2017 in Darmstadt Staatstheather, 2017/2016 Cologne Cathedral NYE,
2012 Berlin Potsdamer Platz Festival of Lights, 2008 Berlin Kulturforum ‚time fades‘, 2009 Eindhoven
Glow Festival ‚timing‘, 2010 Montreal Mutek Festival ‚time drifts‘, 2011 Vancouver 125 year anniversary
of the city of Vancoucer, 2012 Frankfurt Luminale (German Light Design Award/ Light Art), 2012 Berlin
Potsdamer Platz Festival of Lights.

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