Artist and conjurer Lily Cox-Richards, whose exhibition ran concurrently to Super!Giant!Jump!Star!, puppeteered a live meteor shower, a performance activated by a “message in smoke” released from the ICA and received by the Star Witnesses on the roof of Quirk — who translated it into light for the Revelers gathered in the park. Lily’s practice, rooted in magic, material, and scrying the world for hidden messages, gave the work its incantatory shape.
She wrote the text that guided the event — a poetic cosmology of sand, color, wind, and transmission — in which the land itself speaks to the sky and the sky answers with falling stars. Her language and presence transformed the night into a ritual of communication between worlds, seen and unseen.
(Excerpt from Lily’s text:)
There is Disquiet in the Sand. The land is old, and it has something to say.
This message is translated into colors. Colors are carried by the wind.
…The Star Witnesses embody the message from the sand, carried by the wind, and release a shower of meteors into the sky, relaying the message to the revelers below.