PST ART Public Opening: Cai Guo-Qiang's "WE ARE"

A spectacular realization of “Art & Science Collide,” PST ART will open to the public with “WE ARE: Explosion Event for PST ART,” a newly-commissioned monumental artwork by world-renowned artist Cai Guo-Qiang presented at the iconic Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Composed of daytime fireworks—a signature form of Cai’s art that uses organic, sustainable pigments and dyes rather than traditional pyrotechnics—and conceived and choreographed by the artist in collaboration with his custom AI model cAI™ (pronounced AI Cai), the work will mark the first event of its kind in US history.

Beginning at dusk, “WE ARE” is a multi-act performance featuring ten thousand twinkling mini firework shells installed throughout the seating bowl of the Coliseum, custom-developed daytime fireworks, and choreographed drones carrying pyrotechnic products. The result is a visual story full of mystery and wonder, igniting the sky with images that showcase AI's revelation of a “heavenly secret” through the reduction of its dimensionality, followed by those recalling the myth of Prometheus’s theft of fire from the gods and suggesting a present-day parallel in the relationship between humanity and AI.

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