The Art Newspaper

Knowledge is Power, by the artists' collective NewD Media (Gabe Hall, Daniel Land,Audra Kubat, Gabe Rice) will illuminate the Woodward facade and lawn of the Detroit Public Library

Two festivals are shining a light on Detroit’s Midtown arts scene this autumn. Dlectricity, the city’s first “nuit blanche” light festival, is presenting 35 local and international artists at various venues from 5 to 6 October, while Luminale Detroit brightens streets and gallery spaces from 23 September to 23 November. The organisers for Dlectricity expect up to 40,000 visitors to come to see projects by artists such as Marcos Zotes, whose piece allows users to project anonymous text messages onto a building’s façade, and Annica Cuppetelli and Cristobal Mendoza, who are presenting an indoor light work that reacts to viewers’ movements. “Five years ago, the city was a disaster,” says Marsha Miro, the founding director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit and the head of the Dlectricity curatorial committee. “But it began to get better and we think that art can really help bring this city back.”

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