Event Horizon until Sunday 22 April 2018 | 10:00–17:00 | Grand Gallery National Museum of Scotland
Taking centre stage is Event Horizon, a new colossal work which is being created live by artist Jason Hackenwerth and then suspended in the museum’s Grand Gallery.
Two immersive exhibition zones and two specially-commissioned digital installations by local artists will complete the experience.
This is a true spectacle, and it will look different every day this week as the American artist works in his stocking soles to produce what he describes as a ‘big black hole’. He wants this immersive sculpture to be something that creates awe when people stand under it. It is suspended from the ceiling of the museum and will be moved up as Jason and his team add more balloons to the bottom of it.
It is part of the Edinburgh International Science Festival programme for 2018.
We had the pleasure of meeting him yesterday as he worked.
Watch our video below.
We met @hackenwerth who is creating the massive balloon sculpture in the Grand Gallery of @NtlMuseumsScot during @EdSciFest 2018 He is racing against time to get all the balloons in place by Friday pic.twitter.com/kNfrjJz0cX
— Edinburgh Reporter (@EdinReporter) April 2, 2018
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