Starry Starry Stacks (Bethlehem, PA)

A Site-Specific Iron Pour Performance with Molten Iron and Live Electronic Sound By International Artists Coral Lambert and Paul Higham

Saturday, March 15 · view days & times
Venue: SteelStacks

FREE

Iron Pour at 7:00pm

To be performed in front of the Bethlehem SteelStacks. Sculptor, Coral Lambert will use her portable iron furnace to melt and cast hot iron stars in the shape of the City’s Bethlehem Star. Digital Pioneer, Paul Higham will accompany the performance iron pour with a composition of industrial sounds sampled from the environment.

The performance will start at dusk and the iron casters will carry the stars, walk along the lawn front of the stacks and place them in premade stands much like setting a flagpole. They will slowly fade as the sound composition plays and the molten iron is poured. About 40 stars will be poured over a one-hour period.

Below image is from their recent iron pour performance ‘Ferrum Lux’ at Historic Carrie Furnace Site, PA

The original ‘Starry Starry Night’ was performed at Salem Art Works is part of a series of molten iron + fire performance works that British Sculptor Coral Lambert has been developing in tandem with Sound by Digital Artist Paul Higham over the past 30 years. Projects include ‘The Seeping Furnace’ Franconia, USA, ‘Volcano Furnace’ Latvia, ‘Diamonds’, Basel, Switzerland, ‘Ferrous Bloom’ NY and ‘Flowers of Elysium’ Berlin, Garden of Fiery Delights at the Brandenburgh Industrial Museum, Germany and ‘Ferrum Lux’ at The Historic Carrie Furnaces, Pittsburgh, PA in 2023 as part of the Festival of Combustion.

Each work is site and time specific. Each performance results in cast iron sculpture that is exhibited later.

The casting of the stars becomes a story to be told by those who were there. The ‘Star Factory’ uses a portable coke fired iron furnace that melts recycled iron with the assistance of an experienced crew.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Coral Penelope Lambert
http://www.corallambertsculptor.com/

British American sculptor, Coral Penelope Lambert is internationally recognized for working in cast metal as well as producing large scale outdoor sculpture. She is Professor of Sculpture at Alfred University where she is also the Director of the National Casting Center Foundry. Spanning three decades Coral Lambert's approach to making sculpture is extensive in her response to site, process and material. Her work explores the forces of nature and seeks to address darker issues related to earth’s resources and has been exhibited in major museums, galleries and sculpture parks. Awards include the International Sculpture Center Outstanding Educator and Gottlieb Foundation.

Paul Higham
https://virtualsculpture.org/

Scottish American artist, Paul Higham is a pioneer of early computer sculpture combining conceptual paradigms with computational technology in his art for over 40 years. In the early 70's he studied Sculpture at Goldsmiths College of Art in London. Higham was part of the circle around Joy Division using early sound sampling and sequencing. His longtime Datasculpture work is driven by the commodification of information in dynamic compression, encryption, corruption and retrieval : harvesting grains of data from digital streams from population in real time his work reveals organicity, hysteresis & turbulence within culture. He has exhibited and performed at venues internationally including Paris, London, China, Manchester Hacienda, New Orleans, Minneapolis Walker Art Center, New York, CBGB’s and Berlin’s Zwitschermaschine. Awards include Joan Mitchell and the Jerome Mcknight for his early Virtual Reality work.

Schedule

• Saturday, March 15, 2025 @ 7:00 PM 03/15/2025 07:00 PM 03/15/2025 10:00 PM 15 Starry Starry Stacks (Bethlehem, PA) https://www.artsquest.org/event/16992/starry-starry-stacks-bethlehem-pa/ SteelStacks false MM/DD/YYYY

Venue Information

SteelStacks
101 Founders Way
Bethlehem, PA 18015
610-332-1300
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