Evanescent
Large Scale Outdoor “Art-chitecture” Visual & Soundscape on Display at The Weidner Aug 28-Sept 15
Giant Bubbles are Coming to The Weidner on the UW-Green Bay Campus! Big. Giant. Huge. Evanescent, a large-scale, immersive, temporary sculpture by Atelier Sisu will be on display day and night outside at The Weidner from August 28 through September 15.
Using light and sound, Evanescent is “art-chitecture” that connects audiences with their environment and is designed to be truly inclusive by emulating the ethereal quality and magic of bubbles. We invite the public to experience Evanescent both during the day, and at night. At over 20 feet tall, illuminated, and interactive – Evanescent is the INSTAGRAM-able, Tik-Tok worthy snapshot of the year.
Evanescent is free to view and open to the public.
Made possible by generous support by the City of Green Bay and the 1923 Fund, Evanescent opens to the public just in time for UW-Green Bay to welcome back students and staff for the Fall 2024 semester. Evanescent is presented as part of The Weidner’s effort to expand the arts outdoors and in unexpected places.
Opening day of Evanescent coincides with the beginning of a free, three-week concert series on the Weidner’s Patio Stage, featuring local musicians, The Standard Collective, PEGASIS, and Arthur Gabriel Smeall. The sculpture will be on display at Estamos Aqui Festival Hispano – the Hispanic Arts & Culture festival now in its second year. The free outdoor festival will be on Saturday, September 14 from 3 PM to 10 PM on the UW-Green Bay campus. Last year’s inaugural festival attracted over 8,000 people.
About the Art:
Evanescent is an adjective, meaning the quality of being fleeting or vanishing quickly; impermanence.
The artwork was inspired during the Covid-19 pandemic, when the world stopped and everything we took for granted started to disappear. Atelier Sisu endeavoured to communicate this feeling of transient beauty, and the need to live in the moment through the idea of the bubble.
Sydney-based design studio Atelier Sisu works within the intersection of art and architecture creating large-scale site-specific works that enchant by reinventing spaces.
By day, Evanescent is made from a colour-reflecting dichroic film that reacts to the changing light of the sun as it moves across the sky, causing a rainbow of reflection across the ground and a unique picture from every angle.
This art-chitecture connects audiences with their environment and is designed to be truly inclusive. By emulating the ethereal quality and magic of bubbles, Atelier Sisu’s Evanescent appeals to our universal playfulness and childlike wonder, the work encourages the audience to consider the world around them as
a space of transience and fragility, like that of a bubble.
About the Artists:
Atelier Sisu is an award-winning Sydney-based art practice, led by Peruvian sculptor and industrial designer Renzo B. Larriviere and spatial architect and artist Zara Pasfield.
The pair work with a multi-disciplinary team to create experiential environments, installations and unique sculptural pieces. Their direction of work sits between the fields of art and architecture (art-chitecture), with particular focus in the realm of public art.
Each public artwork aims to provide a unique spatial experience for its visitors, while also contributing to the visual identity of a place and promoting community interaction.