Globally acclaimed light artist Chris Levine joins CTR arts residency launch event

Connecting the Roots is proud to announce an exciting addition to the artistic lineup for the launch of our international arts residency programme on January 25th, 2025.

Internationally renowned light artist Chris Levine will present an immersive laser installation, specifically tuned to the event’s natural surroundings, accompanied by a beautiful, elevating soundscape created especially for the event.

Born out of Levine’s ‘iy_project’, a collaboration with the Eden Project that harnesses the power of laser, sound, people and place, this work is the brainchild of Levine and CTR trustee (and former Eden Project Creative Director) Peter Hampel. Their work integrates collaborations with top recording artists such as Robert Del Naja (Massive Attack), Jon Hopkins, Nick Mulvey, Marco Perry (Björk), and most recently, Gruff Rhys.

Levine has previously headlined several international arts festivals, including Dark Mofo (Tasmania), Glastonbury, Wilderness, and the Eden Project (UK).

The artist says, “It’s a real honour to be invited to present my work in Costa Rica for the first time, alongside Greivin Salas and Andrew Gifford, in such a spectacular and special place. I am also proud to support the incredible efforts of the Connecting the Roots team, who are rewilding nature and reminding us all that we are a part of nature, not apart from it.”

We are deeply grateful for the support of our production partner, ER Productions, in making this event possible.

Further information on Chris Levine:

Chris Levine is a contemporary artist known for his expansive and experimental practice. His multidisciplinary approach harnesses a diverse array of technologies, aiming to reveal how light is fundamental to human experience.

Driven by a profound desire to expand perception, Levine’s work guides his audience into a meditative engagement with the present moment. His medium, his message, and his language is Light.

Levine’s groundbreaking light-based portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, Lightness of Being, has gained international acclaim. In an age overwhelmed by imagery, the artist created a portrait of seminal importance. Though he has exhibited in museums and galleries dedicated to portraiture, Levine is not a portrait artist in the traditional sense.

At the heart of Levine’s practice are his immersive light installations, which he strives to take beyond the confines of the white cube exhibition space into real-world, mass-participatory environments. He has created site-specific, large-scale outdoor light installations in locations as diverse as Durham Cathedral, the Eden Project, and the Royal Opera House in London, to Hobart, Tasmania, Radio City Music Hall in New York, and the stage at Glastonbury. Continually pushing the boundaries of what light art can achieve, Levine’s singular ideology seeks to elevate the viewer’s consciousness through art.