Park Hill sparkles for a night

The 'one night only' magic trick to light up the soon-to-be-renovated Park Hill flats in Sheffield with floodlights was the brainchild of artist Annika Eriksson.

Park Hill lit up by Annika Eriksson

Dubbed Maximum Happiness, the recent display helped launched the Art Sheffield 08 programme – the city-wide contemporary art event which runs until the end of March 2008.
 
According to Eriksson: '[Park Hill towers] over the city like a majestic castle, the estate is a landmark building, yet what it stands for is ambiguous….it still testifies to the unparalled social vision of the 1960s that futurist architecture should be accessible to everyone. [But] Is this utopia exhausted?'

Park Hill before being lit up

A very good question Eriksson…. but I prefer it when you just do your David Copperfield-esque magic….

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