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Winter Lights 07
Following the success of the Ron Haseldon's previous Winter Lights project of 2006, Animal, internationally renowned French artist Franck Scurti was commissioned to propose a second series of amazing new Winter Lights and has created a Liverpool Jackpot for Kirkdale, Kensington and Garston. Franck Scurti was chosen because of his investigative approach within communities and his engaging and playful artworks that will find a natural home within the neighbourhoods of Liverpool.
On Thursday 8th November 2007 Metal held a 'Switch On' event to celebrate the light's return to the neighbourhood and the Liverpool skyline was illuminated once more.
There is a different jackpot sequence for each neighbourhood: drawings relating to food, a body part and a phrase taken from British press selected in consultation with local residents. Kensington residents chose 'Power to the People'! The work responds to a recurring theme in Franck’s work relating city life to games of chance.
“I think there is a close relation between the behaviour code triggered by the experience of the urban ‘shock’ and the technique of the games of chance; between the disappearance of the craftsmanship and the industrialization of leisure activities.”
Visit his website at www.franckscurti.net
An animation of the project can be viewed at http://www.tonky.fr/scurt/ The source of text and the commercial context of neon signage are joined with traditionally humorous props and loaded images with many translations and interpretations through seemingly random sequences. We are used to a constant bombardment of commercial messages so it is refreshing that these sequences inspire our bigger ideas, encourage positive change and embolden community spirit; the texts chosen by each neighbourhood reveal this desire.
Liverpool Jackpot is supported by: Liverpool Culture Company, Rotunda College, Metal, Garston Cultural Village, and Community 7.
For a map showing the Kensington Winter Lights locations click here.
For more information on the Biennial and the Winter Lights project http://www.biennial.com/
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Winter Lights is a Learning and Inclusion project developed with the Biennial Big Table with the aim of creating, through collaborative programming, a presence in the city centre for the communities of the outer neighbourhoods, and a presence for the Biennial in the neighbourhoods beyond the city centre. The Biennial Big Table members are Rotunda College, Kirkdale, Garston Cultural Village and Metal, Kensington. 
