Blue is an Agreement

The title of this ongoing research project emerged from a simple yet profound realisation: the perceived colour of the sky can be altered by changing the colour of the frame through which it is viewed. 

This experience prompted vinny jones to reflect on how framing influences not only perception as well as our ways of seeing and being in the world. She  investigates how light can be used to shape perception, inviting attentiveness and reflection in everyday spaces. Her work is an ongoing, site-specific exploration of space. In this case, it is the courtyard, café and concertzaal of Kaaistudios where she will be in residency for the two weeks preceding the Open Studios, where she will attend to the space through light. Rather than making the theatre space disappear as it is designed to do, vinny draws our attention to what is already here, to the space we are inhabiting now, together. Through light, she questions how we organise our attention, and explores other possible ways of being and doing together. 

• vinny jones uses light as her primary material to shape the relationship between the audience and space, in a practice she calls sensory scenography. Her work explores light as a sensory material that is experienced by the body as well as seen with the eyes, and is interested in the moments where light becomes a feeling. She uses light, space and perception to experience how space is organised, and how it organises us; exploring the conditions of seeing and being. vinny is currently exploring hybrid spaces with light, spaces that house many functions that are often overlooked or made to disappear. She is curious how the embodied experience and feeling of light can facilitate attendance and attention to the spaces we inhabit daily. To look at what is already there. To explore how light might serve as a means to communicate and collaborate across parallel systems, and softly explore other possible ways of being and doing together.