Blog van Vinny

After over two years of looking, thinking, listening, watching, reading, talking, making and doing, I have come to an end of my traject with the iLo. It has been an invaluable process for me and I have used my time here to discover and develop my own lighting ‘beelde taal’ and approach to light design. The traject has brought a depth to my work, greater clarity and professionalism, from inspiration to research, to the realisation of ideas in a creative, collaborative process.

Aars; An Anatomical Study of the Oresteia, Olivier Provily's direction depicts the family as battlefield, it's member's both victims and perpetrators of the cycle of abuse.
The design took inspiration from the clear, antiseptic lighting required for anatomic examinations. The play is can be seen as a dissection of a family and it’s destruction. The lighting aimed to introduce a clinical atmosphere, where all is visible, at times verging on over-exposed. I also looked to still life paintings, wanting to combine the heightened realism with a sense of underlying decay.

'History in the Making' played in November in the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern gallery in London. After further performances in New York and Berlin, the show will come to the van abbemuseum in Eindhoven in March 2010.

Set in the future, the latest piece from Blood for Roses, directed by Karen Røise Kielland, deals with loss and yearning as the characters try to recreate snow for a generation who have never known it.



Photography Jochem Jurgens

This performance from theatre group abhac premiers in Belgium this Saturday. The light design was developed through a research project into optical illusions. The voorstelling travels to the Netherlands November 6 and 7 in Lantaren Venster and 14 in Grand Theatre Groningen.

In September I attended the World Stage Design Conference in Seoul, South Korea. WSD2009 was a joint project of the Korea Theatre Artist Association (KTAA, OISTAT-Korea) and the International Organization of Scenographers, Technicians, and Architects of Theatre (OISTAT). World Stage Design is a designer-focused, international celebration of design. I submitted two designs, both from Dogtroep performances,'de Montan' and 'to be to not be', which were both accepted into the exhibition. The light design for 'to be to not be' was awarded an 'honerable mention'.

‘Wij wonen allemaal niet hier’, is a new theatre piece written by Andreas Vonder and performed by new theatre group Klein Land. The piece was performed in the former Stork terrain in Amsterdam North.