Heinrich & Palmer

Data Mining

All Saints Parish Church, Wigan WN1 1NL

20th - 22nd November

5pm - 9:30pm

FREE

unticketed - please be aware you might have to queue

For Light Night Wigan 2025 we are also excited to present a brand new installation made especially for and about Wigan by artists, Heinrich & Palmer.

Data Mining is a new projected artwork from artists Heinrich and Palmer conceived especially for Wigan. The work will take a creative and elemental journey through the industrial and geological heritage of Wigan and Leigh as the area makes a transition towards a greener future. The work will mine for traces of memory and identity and seek out poignant moments enmeshed in the fabric of objects and places.

Data Mining takes the idea of a subterranean world of memories connected to a re-wilding surface. A place where deep time, captured in the geology of an area perforated with mine shafts and underground galleries, combines with a parallel world of scanned and virtual copies.

Archival image courtesy of Archives: Wigan & Leigh

We are committed to keeping Light Night Wigan free for everyone to attend. Can you help keep this well loved event free for families from Wigan to visit in future years? If you think art should be inclusive for all and can afford to contribute, please donate. 

It costs us approximately £10 per visitor to produce the festival - so every little helps.