Plunge
Michael Pinsky
Plunge is a simple, elegant statement placed on a network of iconic columns. A string of low energy blue LED lights wrapped around each column marks a time, 1000 years in the future, when sea level rises have changed the landscape beyond recognition.
“Public art being relevant... simple, beautiful and effective.”
Visitor
The chosen monuments are ones that are passed every day by hundreds of thousands of people, whether tourists who stop to photograph them, or commuters who walk by every day without seeing them. Plunge offers an opportunity to see them in a new light, to think about their place in our history and in our cities.
Plunge in London was created by Michael Pinsky and produced by Artsadmin and LIFT as part of the Imagine 2020 network programme.
Visitor
The chosen monuments are ones that are passed every day by hundreds of thousands of people, whether tourists who stop to photograph them, or commuters who walk by every day without seeing them. Plunge offers an opportunity to see them in a new light, to think about their place in our history and in our cities.
Plunge in London was created by Michael Pinsky and produced by Artsadmin and LIFT as part of the Imagine 2020 network programme.
Duke of York Column. Photograph by Kristian Buus.
Video:
Plunge on film
A short film about Michael Pinsky's Plunge, a collaboration between Artsadmin and LIFT which took place in London in Spring 2012.
Paternoster Square Column. Photograph by Julian Andrews
Sundial Pillar at Seven Dials. Photograph by Julian Andrews
