Roll up, roll up It’s time to get a tent for this circus and join the rest of the wonky roustabouts in the LUMA Little Big Top. LIGHT CIRQUE is a place for exploration, interaction and fun. Bringing a playful, Coney Island-inspired atmosphere to the Gardens. Get lost...
An evening at the beach. Our iconic Rose Garden, is transformed into an interactive seashore nightscape. Grab some refreshments, soak up the sounds of nature where land meets water, schools of fish swim, mermaids entice and animated sea creatures lurk.The seaside...
Inspiration for Trilogy comes from 4 years of experiments with IR touch technology, married seamlessly with bright LED technology, reacting to touch making sound and light. The installation is designed to feel outer worldly, each column leaning out from the centre and...
Step inside, find a spot and let your imagination loose. Light Camp is a space for creative minds to run wild. Give ‘em a paint brush,.. make your own pixel... dress up for the occasion or just pop on some face paint and hit the road. There’s also plenty of space to...
The Light Garden is an open creative space which encourages participation in the realm of projection mapping from our LUMA artists. A projection space filled with interesting surfaces, motion capture and sound reactive technology, where our artists are welcome to...
Local artists and contributors from around New Zealand have been selected to present their sculptures as part of LUMA Art Walk 2017. This selection of works has been curated by Andie King.
SILO + Rick Holland Lineal invites you to listen to the voice you read the world with and ask, ‘What said that?’, to connect with the steady creative light that hums in all of us, and speaks loudest when we remember to listen.Rick Holland is Professor of Poetry at...
Trilogy is an imposing sculpture featuring three interactive light pillars using infrared touch technology allowing multiple participants to interact simultaneously drawing with light by hand.Synchronised sound effects accompany patterns of light to create a unique...
Various Artists New Zealand Welcome to the Gnathering. Thirty gnomes have traveled the country to the studios of many recognised artists who have donated their time and creativity to make unique artwork and support our creative community. Help us re-home a gnome.
The rose garden will be transformed into a playful environment with hospitality, live DJ's and VJ's throughout the long weekend. Come and enjoy some delicious food, refreshing beverages, get warm and have a boogie.
A mirror ball in a forestWhere it belongsNo need for loud beatsOr fiendish rhythmsJust a rake of brightBrushing your cheekThen the limbAnd the barkBigger than the biteFrom teeth of light
Epic, Exposure and Kate Moetaua Drama Collective Light Camp provides an exciting new space to interact, play and create. Presented by Epic Living bringing interactive art as a Sensory Mindful Movement, positive for expression & Creative wellbeing. Absorb the...
Bringing light into the darkness, The Frame captures a moment in time and space.A place to reflect on the day behind you and ones in front.
MANAWA (Breathe) Is a gathering place where the community can come together and breathe together. Warm colors, LED strips back lit on trees, a place to gather and synchronise your life force with nature.Inhale 4 seconds / Exhale 8 seconds.
SILO and Angus Muir collaborated on this bespoke piece developed specifically for LUMA 2016. The piece was designed with the hexagonal shape of the rotunda in mind. The sculpture is made up of 168 LED globes suspended in a dome shape, each light is individually...
Welcome to the LUMA Lounge, come relax, warm up, with some great food and entertainment all with a hot or cold refreshment in hand.
The LUMA Lounge was a music and hospitality area nestled under a canopy of ever-changing light, projection, and illumination and DJ's. Produced by SILO and TOM TOM productions, in conjunction with the World Bar Queenstown
Inspired by the continuous movement of water. Ripple employs generative fluid dynamic technology and the interactive frame encourages you to create ripples of coloured light across the trees.
Each year local collective SILO (South Island Light Orchestra) helps bring to life a collaborative schools light project for LUMA. Pupils have created 40 giant jellyfish, illuminated by over 6000 mapped light pixels. The environment takes you into the depths of the...