Bristol Light Festival announces four more installations for 2024

Four more installations have been announced for the Bristol Light Festival 2024.

The city centre festival, from February 2 to 11, will see never-before-seen-in-the-South-West artworks PULSE, Emergence and Elysian. 

The popular favourite Swing Song will also return for 2024, taking on a new lease of life for the fourth iteration of the award-winning festival. 

New installations PULSE and Emergence are by Somerset-based partnership, This is Loop. 

Pulse will invite visitors to step inside enormous rings of light made up of more that 14,000 individual LEDs as they travel through the sequence. 

While Emergence is a huge, mirrored structure that is completely reflective and designed to provide audiences with a new perspective of a once-familiar space. 

The third new installation, Elysian, by multidisciplinary art collective, Atelier Sisu, immerses guests within illuminated arches to both walk through and under. 

Swing Song, a standout installation at Bristol Light Festival in previous editions, is also returning. 

A series of six swings, the childhood favourite artwork is set to music produced especially for the festival, which plays as the audience swings back and forth. 

One swing controls the bassline, another controls the melody, and a third controls drums and percussion. 

Speaking on the new installations, Catherine Jewkes, creative director of Bristol Light Festival, said: “We are absolutely over the moon to have some many incredible artists involved with our next edition. 

“This programme is starting to feel really special and is reflective of Bristol’s creative spirit. 

“Each year our aim is to bring new and show-stopping artworks to Bristol, creating spaces for people to play, explore and have new experiences. 

“We can’t wait to welcome everyone to the Bristol Light Festival and once again fill the city with colour and light.”

Bristol Light Festival, founded by Bristol City Centre Business Improvement District (BID) and presented in partnership with Redcliffe & Temple BID, will run from the February 2 to 11 2024.