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Paisley Eco Pixels
March 26 @ 11:00 am - April 5 @ 6:00 pm
£5.00
A dynamic fusion of Projection Mapping, Digital Art, and Local Film celebrating Renfrewshire’s unique architecture and environment.
OUTDOOR PROJECTION
Thursday 27th, Friday 28th and Saturday 29th March 2025, 7pm-9pm
at No 1 High Street, Paisley, PA12AE Admission Free
Join us outdoors at 1 High Street, Paisley—a long-overlooked and much loved local landmark which will be reimagined through the vibrant visions of artist-in-residence Jamie Wardrop, alongside newly commissioned creative works by Demelza Kingston, Ally Wallace, Berger & Wirz, and local artists who have been participating in projection mapping workshops. Together, they’ll bring attention to and energise our shared public space, bringing awareness to the environmental tensions and the inherent potential of your town and the wider Renfrewshire area.
Experience bold and experimental digital art, captivating 3D animations, and immersive film pieces specifically designed to interact with the architecture of 1 High Street. Throughout the evening, continuous outdoor projections will transform this landmark into a spectacular, large-scale canvas visible from the street.
Enjoy playful and poetic films celebrating the quirky civic character of Paisley, connecting its vibrant past with its dynamic present. Engage with provocative performance art that thoughtfully examines our emotional and societal responses to the escalating climate crisis.
Witness the building come to life as a dynamic weather vane, reflecting real-time updates of local weather conditions and atmospheric CO₂ levels. Powerful climate action messaging, inspired and created directly from local community workshops, will be prominently displayed to provoke collective reflection and dialogue.
Explore ongoing ecological restoration projects across Renfrewshire, alongside archival materials that highlight Paisley’s historical context and cultural significance.
Art, community, and sustainability come together to illuminate new possibilities for Paisley.
Event Information
The soundscape and projection runs on a loop lasting 35min approx. There is an established viewing area with some seating in front of the projection area.
Refreshments will be available from the exhibition space at 2 County Sq, Paisley.
Please wear suitable clothing for the weather conditions on the day.
PAISLEY ECO PIXELS INDOOR EXHIBITION
2 County Square, Paisley, PA1 1BN From Wed 26th March to Saturday 5th April from 11am to 6pm (Sunday closed) Admission Free
Running in parallel, Refractive hosts an indoor exhibition at the nearby County Square, offering further context and deeper insights into the artworks projected onto the building. Delve into an in-depth exploration featuring additional works by commissioned artists Demelza Kingston, Ally Wallace, and Berger & Wirz, alongside a showcase marking the culmination of Jamie Wardrop’s residency. Discover photography, visualisations of Paisley’s changing climate, experimental abstract short films, and interactive projected installations, presented as a dynamic blend of completed pieces and works in progress.
This exhibition invites you into a contemplative space, enriching your understanding and appreciation of the innovative digital and film-based creations on display.
The Artists:
Jamie Wardrop
Ally Wallace
Berger & Wirz
Demelza Kingston
David Brodie
Tomas Lusk
Marie Chiriac
Breakfast Lecture with Josh Wirz and Axel Berger.
11 am Saturday 29th March at the Paisley Eco Pixels Exhibition space at 2 County Square, Paisley PA1 1BN
Admission £5 including breakfast. Book your ticket below. There is limited space so booking in advance is required.
Join Josh and Axel for an informal and entertaining talk about the forming of their collaborative practice, their research into the semiotics of greenwashing specifically regarding their recent action at the Shell PLC shareholders conference in 2024 which is the focus of the artwork Filibuster. Josh and Axel will talk about their unconventional use of technology, specifically live streaming technology as seen in the work LIVE @ White Cart Water.
Since 2018, Josh Wirz and Axel Berger have developed a portfolio of six time-based works that explore themes of environmentalism, infrastructure, and the urban landscape. Their primary media, performance and video, are tailored to be site-specific, and they are passionate about presenting works in unique spaces. They harness theatrical techniques such as contact improvisation and clowning coupled with a unique use of media equipment and custom software to create compelling work that they co-write, co-direct and co-perform in.
Their work ‘Plug Fair / Through a glass, darkly,’ has been exhibited at international events such as the Public Immersion conference at the Inter Arts Center in Malmö, the Lahti Fringe Festival in Finland, and the Stockholm Fringe Festival, where it was awarded the ‘Most Innovative in Performance’ award.
They have exhibited works such as ‘Two People Frowning at a Salami’ performed at the Chalten Gallery, ‘The Accumulative Worth of an Apple’ presented at Elmer Art Space, and ’10 Ideas’ performed at Bloomsbury Theatre. ‘If Civilisation’, an interdisciplinary performance unveiled at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, reimagines the urban landscape through the lens of the human body, proposing its integration into civil infrastructure. Lastly, ‘Filibuster’, a critical examination of greenwashing tactics, was developed during a funded residency at the Performance Art Forum.
Critics have characterised their work as ‘an intense, slightly worrying and very beautiful experience’, and a ‘much-deserved morbid curiosity’.
Breakfast Lecture with Jamie Wardrop
11 am Saturday 5th April at the Paisley Eco Pixels Exhibition space at 2 County Square, Paisley PA1 1BN
Admission £5 including breakfast. Book your ticket below. There is limited space so booking in advance is required.
Join projection mapping and climate Artists Jamie Wardrop for the background on the development of Paisley Eco Pixels and a look at the projects developed through his 10 month Artists in Residency at Refractive.
