Model, Innocence + Experience

Staged 2015, U2 World Arena Tour

“For U2’s Innocence + Experience arena tour, a transparent LED block was suspended in the stadium. It divided the crowd when lowered and unified them when lifted. U2’s band members inhabited chalk-drawn animations as protagonists among the pixels. Developed in collaboration with the director Willie Williams and Ric Lipson from Stufish, the luminous block pressured the four men like cornered wolves from above.”

—Es Devlin

A large, indoor concert venue full of people with a large yellow rectangular screen in the center of the room; a black line cuts through the screen revealing a person towards the right.

Production photograph, Innocence + Experience
Staged 2015, U2 World Arena Tour
Courtesy of Es Devlin

A large, indoor concert venue full of people with a large rectangular floating screen in the center of the room; the screen is mostly white with a large shadow raising its hand against the screen.

Production photograph, Innocence + Experience
Staged 2015, U2 World Arena Tour
Courtesy of Es Devlin

Installation view of a horizontal, rectangular model emitting green light; a black horizontal line cuts the rectangle in half.

Es Devlin, Model, Innocence + Experience, Acrylic and perforated aluminum, recreated for exhibition.
Staged 2015, U2 World Arena Tour
Photo: Elliot Goldstein © Smithsonian Institution

Installation view of a horizontal, rectangular model emitting white light; a black-and-white illustration of houses is projected on the surface.

Es Devlin, Model, Innocence + Experience, Acrylic and perforated aluminum, recreated for exhibition.
Staged 2015, U2 World Arena Tour
Photo: Elliot Goldstein © Smithsonian Institution

Expressive drawing of rectangular forms extending from the foreground and shrinking toward the background to a small stage-like structure. There is handwritten text above the drawing.

Es Devlin, Study, Innocence + Experience, Graphite on paper.
Staged 2015, U2 World Arena Tour
Courtesy of Es Devlin

Model, Innocence + Experience

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

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