The car choir is a project stemming from the urban installation Garland of 9 Cars that the French artist Benedetto Bufalino realised for the Superflux festival in 2009. The Superflux is a light installation festival that occurs during the Fête des Lumières and is organised by the Roger Tator Gallery. Lighting Guerrilla has hosted several projects that were produced or presented by the Roger Tator Gallery: Exiting the Factory, Darkroom, The Greenhouse Effect and Symbionts. The creative process of Benedetto Bufalino originates from his desire to produce an unusual, surprising, surrealistic universe. For this performance, a choir of cars parked at the Trg francoske revolucije will blink in coordination, giving the feeling that they communicate with one another. The light rhythm in this project is used to mimic communication and sound. The installation in Ljubljana will be performed together with Benoit Deseille.

Benedetto Bufalino (1982) is a young French space designer who uses his works for a satirical display of his relationship with the social reality and phenomena. His exhibitions mostly took place in France and Africa. One of his projects, Urban Escape, was incredibly well received. In this project, he and Benoit Deseille transformed an ordinary phone booth into an aquarium. The project was also presented at the biggest European light festival, La Fête des Lumières de Lyon. He transforms everyday things into unusual objects and installations that both surprise, and, not infrequently, make people smile. Quite a few of them have a practical value, or at the very least mimic it. Since 2007, Benedetto Bufalino has been teaching at various educational institutions in Lyon. He received multiple awards and decorations for his work, including an award by the French Institute of Architecture in Paris.

(until Saturday, 28 May 2011, 9:30 PM to 1:00 AM)

The project is co-funded by the French Institute in Slovenia – the Charles Nodier French institute in Ljubljana.