Nordic Pixel Forest is an all-encompassing video- and sound installation situated in the middle of the Ekeberg forest, above the park’s water pond. It consists of 24.000 LED-lights that make up 3600 eightfolded pixels / LED-points, displayed through artificial shells hung from 400 steel wires that come down from a net mounted in the tree crowns – 7 meters above the ground. Each singular LED-point pojects a part of a video image in constant motion accompanied by music.
Through Nordic Pixel Forest, Pipilotti Rist has created a comprehensive and multi-sensory installation which allows for the viewer to not only see and hear – but also to interact and experience her video on a physical level. Weaving their way through the forest of strands, colours, light and sound, the viewer is inserted into the video itself as it is being displayed. Instead of simply observing, the viewer is allowed to step inside the fragmented pictorial landscape and merge with it.
Nordic Pixel Forest is the second artwork by the artist to be made for Ekebergparken. The first artwork, Nordic Hiplights, was unveiled in the autumn of 2022.
The installation is on every day between 7AM and 11PM. Different lightness levels change with the sunlight throughout the year.
Project lead and engineering by Kaori Kuwabara
Sound collaboration Roland Widmer (synthesizers, sound design, record- & mixing), Seraphin Basedau (piano), Alex Boëthius (Monochord), Nike Dreyer (vocals & flute)
Link to Ekeberg Park, Oslo:
https://ekebergparken.com/en/kunst/nordic-pixel-forest
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