Erica Sklenars

Holographic Projection and Set Design for NOM*D Collection Launch – Jeepers Creepers – at iD Fashion Week 2018.

PLANET OBSOLESCENCE
Urban Dream Brokerage Gig City Commission.

This installation contains over 60 discarded lcd screens, hacked to have content visible only when a special headset is worn. To the naked eye, the screens are blank and silent, but through a headset visuals and audio appear. Cameras in the headsets provide some of the visual content creating feedback loops, and the audio is comprised of live loops taken from the room sound. With only two helmets available, the viewing experience is very isolating for the viewer as they become immersed in the echo chamber.

A collaboration by Erica Sklenars and Nikolai Sim

More info: http://urbandreambrokerage.org.nz/planet-obsolencence

Audio Visual Installation by Erica Sklenars and Nikolai Sim for one of the zones at Weta Digital’s End of year party 2017. Event created by Koko

Documentation by Renegade Peach

More to come soon <3

Examples of holograms from various events

Star

In Star, the artist unremittingly inhabits the condition of her own failure, her fallibility and frankness displacing grace and illusionism. 

Star is part of a suite of videos that examine the language of comedy as a potential agent in exploring contemporary views on feminism.  It draws on the physical nature of performance art seen in the second wave feminism movement of the 60’s and 70’s.

The humor in slapstick/physical comedy is derived from the comic’s insistence to maintain control, even after it has been abandoned by those around them. Typical slapstick characters reenact the condition of the modern citizen who, finds that in the eyes of the law nothing they do can ever satisfy, and they are incapable of doing anything right, no matter how hard they try.

A star is intangible, resplendent, magical, spiritual, famous. It is something that is literally impossible to become. In a bundle of taped together cardboard and glitter, these attempts to conform to social ritual are taken to an extreme, rendering it a ridiculous and pointless task.  In this, it reveals that there is no way to fulfill the norm, and consequently, works to absolve the artist and all participators in society from the unreasonable demand to meet the standards of social conventions.

These tests are a series of inflatable mylar helium sculptures that satellite around various events, live

streaming footage from cameras attached to them. This project began in Beijing March 2017 and has continued to develop since returning to Dunedin.

Documentation for the tests at various ARI events in Dunedin for Storm Channels. All events were live streamed from cameras in the balloons. Live Stream Archive: http://stormchannels.co.nz/sct.html

Music by South Acid Mimi 南方酸性咪咪
Directed by Erica Sklenars
Produced by Erica Sklenars and Kristen Ng
Shot by Erica Sklenars, Kristen Ng and Mani Dunlop

Filmed in an empty bedroom, Kunming, China. South Acid Mimi are signed to Beijing label Ruby Eyes Records and are preparing to release their debut album in May 2018.

SOUTH ACID MIMI: site.douban.com/southacidmimi/
KIWESE: www.kiwese.co.nz

艺人所属厂牌：赤瞳音乐 / 太合音乐集团 MV版权由Ruby Eyes Records与Erica Sklenars与Kiwese共享

Only Girl In The World – Selected videos from various performances:

Ephemeral Traces, Enjoy Gallery, Wellington 2013

30 Upstairs, Wellington, 2014

The Performance Arcade 2015, Wellington

The International Performance Art Festival, Space Station Gallery, Beijing 2015

Archive of video clips can be viewed on the Youtube Channel Only Girl In The World

The artist runs a film studio, carefully measuring the space, marking scenes, and recording her figure in action. This elaborate process results in hacking found clips and glitching herself into romantic scenes from famous movies, interrupting these climactic moments of romance with her own intervention, possessing a sincerity that disarms the imposed limitations of romantic conventions in mainstream media.

Summer tour 2017/18 as visual artist/VJ for The Black Seeds

Official music video for Janina by Élan Vital
Directed by Erica Sklenars

https://evital.bandcamp.com/releases

https://www.facebook.com/elanvitalmus...

Styling by JPALM https://www.instagram.com/_jpalm_

Magnets and black ink on CRT TV

Video Review on NOISEY – VICE

Album: https://fishriderrecords.bandcamp.com/album/wisteria

Tokimonsta at San Fran Bar, Wellington, NZ, 2015
Selection of clips from the live show mixed to "Nope" by Tokimonsta

The All Seeing Hand at Meow, Wellington, 2015

Children's Show commissioned by Capital E with Orchestra of Spheres and Stephen Bain, at Paramount Theatre, Wellington, 2015

Popsicle.
Shown at Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision Wellington as part of Typical Girls Exhibition, curated by Bryce Galloway.

Orchestra of Spheres playing inside The All Seeing Hand's Bone Temple at Meow Bar, Wellington, 2015

Wellington City Gallery's 2st Birthday, 2014
Orchestra of Spheres live performance with
projecting mapping on Seung Yul Oh Installation.

THE BLOB – Costume, performance and set design – Performed 3 times in 2014:

Camp a Low Hum, Wainuiomata

Puppies Bar, Wellington

Chick's Hotel, Port Chalmers, Dunedin

Special thanks to collaborators Nathan Taare, Keely Skinner, Amber Johnson, Deborah Resnick, Rani Stigsdottir, Ruby Gray and all of the wonderful wolves.

Sign Of The Hag

Audio visual performance collaboration with Daniel Beban (Orchestra of Spheres).