Starry Starry Stacks (Bethlehem, PA)
A Site-Specific Iron Pour Performance with Molten Iron and Live Electronic Sound By International Artists Coral Lambert and Paul Higham
Saturday, March 15 · view days & times
Venue: SteelStacks
FREE
To be performed in front of the Bethlehem SteelStacks. Sculptor, Coral Lambert will use her portable iron furnace to melt and cast hot iron stars in the shape of the City’s Bethlehem Star. Digital Pioneer, Paul Higham will accompany the performance iron pour with a composition of industrial sounds collected from the environment.
The performance will start at dusk and the iron casters will carry the stars, walk along the lawn front of the stacks and place them in premade stands much like setting a flagpole. They will slowly fade as the sound composition plays and the molten iron is poured. About 40 stars will be poured over a one-hour period.
Below image is from their recent iron pour performance ‘Ferrum Lux’ at Historic Carrie Furnace Site, PA
The original ‘Starry Starry Night’ was performed at Salem Art Works is part of a series of molten iron + fire performance works that British Sculptor Coral Lambert has been developing in tandem with Sound by Digital Artist Paul Higham since 1997. Projects include ‘The Seeping Furnace’ Franconia, USA, ‘Volcano Furnace’ Latvia, ‘Diamonds’, Basel, Switzerland, ‘Ferrous Bloom’ NY and ‘Flowers of Elysium’ Berlin, Garden of Fiery Delights at the Brandenburgh Industrial Museum, Germany and ‘Ferrum Lux’ at The Historic Carrie Furnaces, Pittsburgh, PA in 2023 as part of the Festival of Combustion.
Each work is site and time specific. Each performance results in cast iron sculpture that is exhibited later.
The casting of the stars becomes a story to be told by those who were there. The ‘Star Factory’ uses a portable coke fired iron furnace that melts recycled iron with the assistance of an experienced crew.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Coral Penelope Lambert
http://www.corallambertsculptor.com/
Coral Penelope Lambert is internationally recognized for working in cast metal as well as producing large scale outdoor sculpture. She is Professor of Sculpture at Alfred University where she is also the Director of the National Casting Center Foundry. Spanning three decades Coral Lambert's approach to making sculpture is extensive in her response to site, process and material. Her work explores forces of nature and seeks to address darker issues related to earth’s resources.
Paul Higham
https://virtualsculpture.org/
Paul Higham is a pioneer of early computer sculpture combining conceptual paradigms with computational technology in his art for over 30 years. In the early 70's he studied Sculpture at Goldsmiths College of Art in London. His work is driven by the concept of dynamic compression, encryption and retrieval in data and the commodification + corruption of information. He harvests grains of data from digital streams mined from population in real time revealing organicity, hysteresis & turbulence within culture, visualizing the flux and noise of societal transformations. He has performed at venues internationally including Paris, London, Manchester Hacienda, New Orleans, Minneapolis Walker Art Center, New York, CBGB’s and Berlin’s Zwitschermaschine.
Schedule
- Saturday, March 15, 2025 @ 7:00 PM 03/15/2025 07:00 PM 03/15/2025 10:00 PM 15 Starry Starry Stacks (Bethlehem, PA) https://www.steelstacks.org/event/16992/starry-starry-stacks-bethlehem-pa/ SteelStacks false MM/DD/YYYY
Venue Information
SteelStacks101 Founders Way
Bethlehem, PA 18015
610-332-1300
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