HOLOSCENES

Theatre & Dance | Performance Installation

By Cristina Schek

Performers inhabit a large aquarium in a visceral large-scale performance-installation that embodies the trauma of global climate change.

Lars Jan’s 'Holoscenes' is a large-scale performance-installation that embodies the trauma of flooding. It is a visceral, cross-disciplinary project born out of the widely-shared concern that our troubled relationship to water will become the central issue of the 21st century.

The project directly connects the everyday actions of individuals to global climate change, while contemplating the evolution of our capacities for empathy and long-term thinking. Presented in public space, the centrepiece of 'Holoscenes' is a large aquarium that floods, drains, and floods again. The flooding aquarium is inhabited by a rotating cast of performers conducting everyday behaviours sourced from collaborators across the planet.

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Holoscenes, features a single totemic, aquarium-like sculpture standing thirteen feet tall and viewable from 360 degrees.

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Over the course of several hours, a series of performers play different roles and perform other familiar tasks as the water rises and falls around each in turn.

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Holoscenes is a multi-format work of installation art by Los Angeles artist Lars Jan.

Lars Jan is a director, writer, visual artist, and the founding artistic director of Early Morning Opera (EMO), a genre-bending performance + art lab whose works explore emerging technologies, live audiences, and unclassifiable experience.

https://earlymorningopera.com/wp/projects/holoscenes/

Footnotes

'Holoscenes' is part of London’s Burning festival, a festival of arts and ideas created by Artichoke – the team behind Lumiere London – to mark the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London.