Buzzwords like immersive and experiential are all the rage in spectacle-society art shows these days, often conjuring rather carnivalesque aesthetics. But in the NextArt-produced pop-up installation of the “ULO (Unidentified Landed Object)” project currently on view in a repurposed storefront at ROW DTLA, it’s much more — and more lowkey — than that. The darkened room festooned with glimmering lights and evocative audio is a version of Kyle McDonald and Jonas Jongejan’s “Light Leaks” — re-imagined from festival scale to a 15-minute drop-in “show” with elements of a nightclub, an infinity room, and a meditation-induced hallucination.
A deceptively simple sculptural assembly offers a sort of wild garden of mirror-balls, whose disco-fabulous reflectivity is leveraged and activated by projection mapping and augment by an ambient but emotional soundtrack.
formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.