Kriya · Daniel Popper
A multimedia activation around Daniel Popper's Kriya sculpture at Nuanu — the studio composed the light, laser and sound choreography that brought the work to life at Suara Festival 2024. Featured by Vogue Singapore as a centrepiece of the festival.
- Brief
Bring Daniel Popper's Kriya — a face rising from Nuanu's jungle floor — to life for Suara Festival 2024.
- Approach
Stage as nature's creature waking up. Layer beams, lasers, audio-reactive light onto the sculpture and surrounding canopy.
- Outcome
A nightly composition for the main stage: lasers reading the music live, fog shaping the beams, programmed light score.
- Challenges
Organic sculpture in living jungle — canopy moves, humidity is high, audience density shifts by the hour.
- Result
Featured by Vogue Singapore as Suara's visual centrepiece. An audience that returned to Kriya every night.
Kriya is one of Daniel Popper's monumental works at Nuanu Creative City — a face emerging from the jungle floor, crowned with sculpted bamboo. The studio composed the multimedia language that brings her alive at festival time: laser, light, fog, and sound, scored to the moment.
I · Daytime sculpture, nightfall ritual
By day, Kriya reads as botanical architecture — a face nestled into the planting at the centre of one of Nuanu's open clearings, with sound towers staged respectfully at her flanks. The intent of the daytime composition is restraint: the sculpture is the protagonist; the equipment retreats.
By night, the discipline reverses. The studio's score takes the stage. Lasers trace her crown; fog shapes the beams; audio-reactive light reads the music live; and the surrounding canopy of trees becomes part of the lit room.
II · The festival's centrepiece
For Suara Festival 2024, Kriya became the festival's beating heart. Vogue Singapore's coverage, “Inside Suara Festival in Bali — where art, nature and culture collide”, chose her as the cover image: a vertical column of laser light pouring over her face from a teal sky, a small audience visible at her base. The composition wasn't about volume. It was about the slow drama of a sculpture noticing the night around her — and an audience noticing themselves inside the room she was composing.
The same clearing, twice. By day the sculpture sits in the planting with the sound towers at her flanks; by night the light gathers on her face and the audience settles at her base.
By day, the sculpture is the protagonist. By night, the studio's score is the room.
- Year
- 2024
- Location
- Nuanu Creative City
- Role
- Multimedia composition · Laser choreography · Light programming · Audio across the staged jungle
- With
- Daniel Popper (Sculpture) · Suara × Nuanu (Festival production)
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