Model, Bangerz

Staged 2014, Miley Cyrus World Arena Tour

“We decided that Miley Cyrus should perform the entire show on her tongue. The first iteration was impractical, so we reduced the length of the tongue to a slide, down which Miley made her entrance—a sculptural portrait of a young woman rewriting her own script.”

—Es Devlin

Drawing of a face with an open mouth and a long tongue that winds back and forth across the page as it extends toward the viewer.

Es Devlin, Study, Bangerz, Graphite on paper.
Staged 2014, Miley Cyrus World Arena Tour
Courtesy of Es Devlin

Four repeating images of singer Miley Cyrus's face, atop a black background, with her mouth open and extending tongue. The figure of Cyrus herself appears in the open mouths.

Production photographs, Bangerz
Staged 2014, Miley Cyrus World Arena Tour
Courtesy of Es Devlin

White model of a face with short hair and mouth wide open facing the viewer; a long tongue extends from the base of the mouth downwards to the right. White light is glowing from inside the model revealing a small figure standing at the start of the tongue.

Es Devlin, Model, Bangerz, 3D-printed resin, recreated for exhibition.
Staged 2014, Miley Cyrus World Arena Tour
Photo: Elliot Goldstein © Smithsonian Institution

Model of a face with its mouth wide open and a long tongue extending downwards to the right. A colorful projection makes the hair blond and tongue pink. White light is glowing from inside the model revealing a small figure standing at the start of the tongue.

Es Devlin, Model, Bangerz, 3D-printed resin, recreated for exhibition.
Staged 2014, Miley Cyrus World Arena Tour
Photo: Elliot Goldstein © Smithsonian Institution

Model, Bangerz

An Atlas of Es Devlin

Your journey so far

All pages

An Infinite Archive

Studio

Iris

Archive Unboxed

Sculptures, Ideas to Forms

Studies, Abel’s Mask

Studies, After Hours Til Dawn

Studies, Bangerz

Studies, Come Home Again

Studies, Electric

Studies, Experience + Innocence

Studies, Flag: Burning

Studies, Forest of Us

Studies, Fundamental

Studies, Hello

Studies, Innocence + Experience

Studies, Legend of the Fall

Studies, Memory Palace

Studies, Mirror Maze

Studies, PoemPortraits

Studies, Sphere

Studies, Unknown Soldier

Studies, Witness

Study, Die Tote Stadt

Study, Don Giovanni

Study, Free Your Mind

Model, Atlas

Model, Betrayal

Model, Don Giovanni

Model, Fundamental

Model, Howie the Rookie

Model, La Caja Mágica / The Seed

Model, Legend of the Fall

Model, Macbeth

Model, Parsifal

Model, The Hunt

Model, The Lehman Trilogy

Sculpture, Songs for Sorrow

Model, Abel’s Mask

Model, Bangerz

Model, Carmen

Model, Chimerica

Model, Compton Super Bowl

Model, Flag: Burning

Model, Hello

Model, Innocence + Experience

Model, Les Troyens

Model, Progress

Model, London Olympics

Study, Dynamic Cube

Study, Perforated Screen

Model, Come Home Again

Model, Five Echoes

Model, Forest of Us

Model, Infinite Library

Model, Memory Palace

Model, Mirror Maze

Model, Please Feed the Lions

Model, Poem Pavilion

Model, Redraw the Edges of Your Self

Model, Room 2022

Model, Your Voices

Model, Zoetrope

Theater in a Box

Films

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