| Holoscenes | |
| Artist: | Lars Jan |
| Year: | 21st century |
| Medium: | Installation art |
| Subject: | Climate change |
| Website: | http://earlymorningopera.com/wp/projects/holoscenes/ |
Holoscenes is a multi-format work of installation art by Los Angeles artist Lars Jan.
Holoscenes, features a single totemic, aquarium-like sculpture sited in public space, standing thirteen feet tall and viewable from 360 degrees. [1]
In an allegory of the rising sea levels produced by climate change,[2] the aquarium is animated by a powerful custom hydraulic system that pumps up to 15 tons of water in and out in less than a minute, creating a series of mini-floods to which the performers must adapt. Over the course of several hours, a series of performers play variously the guitar, sell fruit, don an abaya, uncoil a garden hose, and perform other familiar tasks as the water rises and falls around each in turn.[3]
The piece has been shown/performed during The Commonwealth Games Festival 2018, Australia (2018); [4] Times Square Arts & World Science Festival, New York (2017);[5] Art Abu Dhabi NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE (2016);[6] London's Burning Festival (2016); Art Basel, Miami Beach (2015); at the John and Mable Ringling Museum, Sarasota (2015); Nuit Blanche, Toronto (2014);[7] at the Pasadena Museum of California Art (2015) and at Carrefour international de théâtre (2022).[8] [9]