Light Vessel is a high-wire and architectural lighting extravaganza that challenges the very parameters of circus performance itself.

A duet-durational-piece that invites you to come on a visceral journey with Hazel Lam and Lucia Palladino using light design, sound design and the human body to explore the ‘Light Vessel’ – ‘like a viking boat glowing in the dark’ made from LED strips built into a free-standing structure.

The ‘vessel’ of the title is a container architecturally containing Hazel and Lucia… and their world… and the light…

Interrogating and playing with the narrative and expectation of ‘circus’,  this is a relaxed performance where the audience can enter and leave throughout observing these skilled and ground-breaking performers pushing at the limitations of both form and gravity while challenging what we perceive circus equipment is as well as what circus bodies can do.

Do the bodies use the light tubes to help each other navigate the space? Or do they use them to handle each other?

Creative Team

Concept and lead artist: Hazel Lam

Performers: Hazel Lam and Lucia Palladino

Producer: Khai Ramli

Music compositions: Adilia Yip on Daylight and Yellow, Jannis Wolff on Green and Blue and Wai-Yi Wong on Turquoise

Light design: Hazel Lam

Light consultant and construction: Jeroen Wuyts

Costume design: Hazel Lam

Costume maker: Colour Rebel (Astra)

Credits

Residencies at BAC Art Lab, Leuven

Supported by Arts Council England

Commissioned by Kakilang as part of Kakilang Festival 2023.