Installation Lumina Dream @ Vivid Sydney Australia 2025
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The 2025 program has increased the number of standalone projections and installations by almost 50 per cent, compared with 2024. This year, the entire Vivid Light Walk from Central Station to Circular Quay is free.
“What visitors see is artistic brilliance but behind the scenes is a remarkable feat of logistics and teamwork,” says Gill Minervini, in her final year as Vivid festival director.
“We’re talking 12 kilometres of temporary fencing, nearly 9000 square metres of event flooring and eight kilometres of fibre-optic cable bringing the installations and projections to life.
“Our team co-ordinates 72 different event management plans, 280 traffic plans and deploys approximately 3500 operational staff and volunteers across all agencies and suppliers.
“It truly takes a village to create and execute Australia’s biggest event and as soon as the festival ends we essentially begin planning for the following year.
”The Bangkok-based ONGA group is behindLumina Dream, six teardrop-shaped steel structures at Barangaroo that were still being installed on a wet Friday. Three stand six metres tall, another three are four metres, all covered by a special blue dichroic film.Prefabricated in Thailand before being shipped to Sydney, they are to be installed with sensors that can measure wind direction and speed, temperature and humidity.
These make the teardrops not only visually stunning, says ONGA’s creative director Dutchanee Ongarjsiri, but also a functioning weather station.
Visitors can scan a QR code or website to access the relayed data for up-to-date weather information.
“We think raindrops are the perfect symbol for connecting dreams with real-world change,” she says. “Within each raindrop there’s an entire world reflected in a distorted and transformed way – it’s similar to how dreams present reality from new and challenging perspectives.”
It’s the third Vivid outing for ONGA, which in 2017 built giant LED-lit sunflowers by the harbour, their heads bowed in imitation of the natural process of heliotropism, the process whereby plants track the passing of the sun.
In 2023, the team createdSpirograph, a fountain where light, not water, flows, tripped by energy from wind that transforms its speed and colour.
The firm is also responsible forSymphony of Light, a gigantic slinky at Darling Harbour that captures the joy and spontaneity of childhood in its blue and green neon spirals.
