The annual Light in Winter event took place in Melbourne, Australia in June of this year. A the theme to the festival was reading, the local authorities
invited Madrid based collective of anonymous artists, Luzinterruptus to participate by re-creating a more expansive version of an installation they had created previously in New York, Literature versus Traffic.
This is how Federation Square and the surrounding streets were transformed into a winter wonderland with 10.000 books, collected from libraries by the
Salvation Army. A led light was inserted behind a page, and the illuminated books were placed within the city streets, pouring down steps, reclaiming sidewalks and roads and constantly changing formation over the period of a month. On dismantling the installation, members of the public were invited to choose some books to take home and others were given to drivers of cars as they passed by. The concept was the power of the written word and its ability to take over the street.
Luzinterruptus strives to ‘shed light on’ any issue it deems worthy, either as a subversive message or simply because it finds it worthy in a cultural or artistic sense.
