Sklenars describes this piece as a collaboration - or dance - between the artist, water, light and sound. It employs a playful process of projecting imagery into a pool of water, and manipulating the water by hand in response to music. The resulting reflections create slowly unfolding compositions that are inspired by “Lumia” – an early form of art fusing light, technology, and visual music.

The visuals in Liquid Lumia respond to Dave Wilson’s experimental jazz piece Speak to me of Yesterday and Tomorrow (Elusive as the dead), a track that was inspired by the unique melodies of a local Riroriro (Grey Warbler), meditating “through birdsong on what it sounds like to compose, improvise, and perform with the sonic affordances of our surroundings”.

Artist Bio

Erica Sklenars is a Pōneke based artist and designer, working across the fields of mixed reality, video art, installation, performance and intervention. Her practice is often collaborative, and explores modes of communication between people and social groups, pop culture, underground cultures, as well as DIY adaptation or hacking of technology. Often using humor, Erica’s work subverts and contentedly inhabits personal human failures, and plays with future dystopian themes evident in current day life. Erica is currently a PHD student at COCA Massey, researching questions related to perception within extended reality technologies.

Erica creates both solo performative intervention works, and collaborative audio-visual performance installation (often under the pseudonym Lady Lazer Light) working with sound artists and musicians to create performance environments and experiences. Erica has worked regularly touring and creating stage installations with NZ bands and artists such as Orchestra of Spheres, The All seeing Hand, Lord Echo, The Black Seeds and Estere.