Supernovas are one of the most violent events in the universe, the luminous stellar explosion that means the collapse of a massive star. If it would appear within a couple of hundred lightyears it would mean the end of the world. When the enormous amount of energy within the star suddenly gets ejected it creates neutrino flows, gas masses and radiation which makes it shine a billion times brighter than the sun before it fades away into darkness.

Simon Hagegård, Henric Strömberg and Ivan Wahren invite you to take a walk over a Supernova at the heart of Stockholm. Follow the light as it transcends into a dynamic experience filled with gravitational movements and colors created by a dying star. For the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovas, the Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 was awarded to Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Reiss.

For the ten-year anniversary of this Nobel Prize the Skeppsholms-bridge will be transformed into a walkway where you can behold the color shifting echoes of the objects they observed. In contrast the murky winter waters of Stockholm Stream creates a dark, unpredictable and ever-changing canvas, and like outer space itself it swallows the light. But once you’ve made your way to the center of the bridge make sure to lean out and for yourself observe what’s reflecting beneath your feet.

Realised in collaboration with: Control dept, Rebel Light and Stockholm Lighting with sponsors GVA, Lumenpulse, Signify and Moderna Dansteatern.

Lighting control: Daniel Andersson, Control dept