Dream Amsterdam: Ryoji Ikeda floods the city with pure light

The Dream Asterdam foundation has announced that Japanese multimedia artist Ryoji Ikeda will be their featured artist for this year's edition of their Dream Amsterdam spectacular. Dream Amsterdam is an outdoor art event which uses the city as its projection surface, integrating walls and public spaces directly into the artist's performance. As a consequence, spectators are whitnessing two different layers of art at the same time: The visual and aural media in their concrete form and the changes to the urban landscape, which now appears surreal and dream-like. Ryoji Ikeda's contribution, too, will demand a fair amount of participation from the side of his audience according to the organising committee. Pure light is to be the source for his work, spread across several secret locations in Amsterdam. As Dream Amsterdam have pointed out, his brightly luminous interventions „will appear mysteriously, connecting a constellation of points across the cityscape.“ The event will take place on three subsequent nights, each with its own twist to the installation.