Studies, Witness

Staged 2017–21, Katy Perry World Arena Tour

“Katy Perry’s Witness arena tour took place within a giant LED eye. Dancers wore TV heads and giant mouths full of eyes. We explored the possibility of dancers wearing self-striking matchboxes for the song ‘Firework,’ but this idea fell by the wayside. Katy had campaigned for Hillary Clinton, and our early studies considered the form of the megaphone, the hand of the activist, and the cerebral architecture of an evolving consciousness.”

—Es Devlin

Line drawing of repeating and overlapping heads, triangles, and hands that appear white on a black background.

Es Devlin, Study, Witness, Graphite on paper.
Staged 2017–21, Katy Perry World Arena Tour
Courtesy of Es Devlin

Several drawings pinned to a wall depicting legs, eyes, and a mouth.

Es Devlin, Studies, Witness, Graphite on paper.
Staged 2017–21, Katy Perry World Arena Tour
Photo: Elliot Goldstein © Smithsonian Institution

Drawing of a structure in the shape of a head with a triangular shape next to it; small figures are dispersed throughout both on lines suggesting floors within each structure.

Es Devlin, Study, Witness, Graphite on paper.
Staged 2017–21, Katy Perry World Arena Tour
Courtesy of Es Devlin

Studies, Witness

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

Book Unbound