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Arcturus Rising: Spring Equinox 2003


A key idea of this project was to create experience-led events which add to participants’ knowledge through their own experience. In the case of Arcturus Rising, this would be done through taking people out to a site, having first provided them with relevant information about the site and then to perform actions at the site which help to increase this understanding through physical experience. This forms part of my ongoing interest as to how and whether it was possible to change people's lived experience through presenting them with the opportunity to encounter their relationship between themselves and a site in a different way.

This piece was also designed to extend the notion of including the audience as a part of the creative process, as addressed in my previous piece The Public Record. In this project, the audience were brought directly to a site as part of the journey and overtly recorded as a part of the event. Three audience members were also interviewed at length about their experiences of the event and their thoughts around it.

The Star Project was designed to take place between the spring (Vernal) and autumn equinoxes of 2003. The preparatory period ran between the autumn and spring equinoxes of 2002 and 2003 respectively. Arcturus Rising was designed to create an opening for the Project and to act as a catalyst for other activities within the project’s timeframe. 
The focus for the event itself was the making of a row of lights to reflect the alignment of certain stone rows on Dartmoor, but in a contemporary setting. The idea of this was really as a focal point for the experience of star-watching and as a physical expression of the research ideas which I had been working on and had shared with the group. 


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  • ABOUT
    • Privacy Policy
    • Who We Are
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  • PROJECTS
    • Mary Lockyer: Starlight >
      • Mary Lockyer Story
      • Star Stories - oral histories
      • Stithians Starry Campout
      • NLO Interview
    • Artist Opportunities >
      • Sonic Signatures Film Call
      • Workshops & Events >
        • Recent workshops
        • Station to Station & Star Train
        • Destination Dartmoor Okehampton Station Day 24th September
        • King Arthur's Hall Pinhole Camera Workshop
        • Watching The Sun: Residency
        • Seeing the Landscape: Creative Observations
        • Seventeen Suns
        • Measure To The Moon
    • Current Projects >
      • Destination Dartmoor
      • King Arthur's Hall
      • Dark Skies Wild Seas
      • Above and Below >
        • Above and Below Walks
      • Measuring The Universe
      • Watching The Sun
    • Projects Archive >
      • Starlight | Virtual Artist Residency 24th to 28th May 2021 >
        • Starlight: participants
        • Starlight: speakers and facilitators
        • Starlight: resources
      • Measure to the Moon
      • Dark Skies Bright Stars >
        • Stars & Stones: Sound & Film Jams
        • Deep Time: Filmmakers' opportunity
        • Immersive Film
        • Laila Diallo Choreography Day
        • Library events
        • Art Science Learning Events
        • DEEP SPACE: Performance
        • Full Circle: Immersion Weekend: Dance, voice, film
        • Full Circle: Film Workshops
        • Deep Time: Meteor Film Pod
        • 100ft of Deep Time Films
        • Sea Salts & Sail Festival
        • Call for Images
        • Call for Dance Performers
        • DSBS Bodmin Moor
        • 400 Light Years
      • Joanna Mayes - early projects >
        • Moon Journeys
        • The Grasses are Singing
        • The Public Record
        • The Star Project
    • WORKSHOP ARCHIVE >
      • Following The Light: Screening
      • Following The Light: Residency
      • Walking The Universe
      • Lizard Point Residency Exhibitions
      • Lizard Point Networking
      • St Ives Sept Festival
      • Poltesco: Drawing workshop/walk
      • Semaphore Stories
      • Lizard Wireless: Drawing workshops
      • Lizard Beacons events >
        • Lizard Point Artist Residency
        • Kids Invent Stuff
      • Lands End: May Film Weekend
      • Workplace Wonders: Spring Equinox Edition – Inspiration for the creatively curious >
        • Spring Equinox Short Course
      • Loop the Loop with Cornwall Libraries
      • Rays of Sunshine
      • Education >
        • Penzance Schools
        • Water From The Moor
      • Kelly Mine
      • Community >
        • Remapping St Ives Website
        • Remapping St Ives
      • Cafe Scientifique
      • Twinkle Twinkle, St Ives
      • A Festival of Wishes
  • Residencies
    • Dartmoor Residency March 25
    • Boscastle Residency Feb 25
    • Cot Valley Residency Jan 24
    • Cot Valley Residency Nov 23
    • Spring In The Woods: Immersive Analogue May 23
    • Dartmoor Residency Jan 23
    • Cot Valley Residency Nov 22
    • Terms & Conditions
    • Residency FAQs
  • Resources
    • The Learning Zone >
      • Natural Navigation
      • Everyday Astronomy
      • Astronomy Manga
    • Publications
  • Services
    • Artist Support Service
    • MC Technology
    • Remote Live Streaming Service