Victory Over the Sun. World Tour for Franz Ferdinand.

The artist was invited to take the role of creative director in designing Franz Ferdinand's 2014 World Tour stage show.

The tour accompanied the band's 'Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action' album release of the same year. The total duration of the work was one hour and a half.

The artist's design was loosely structured as a digitised reworking of the 1913 Russian Futurist opera, Victory Over the Sun, an endeavour which aimed to erase traditional understandings of the boundaries between various art forms and is - notably - the context in which Malevich first showed one of his black square paintings.

The artist's design incorporated video, set pieces, lighting and costume. Using innovative technology the show includes intelligently controlled light-fixtures and light-reflective costumes reworking Malevich's original costume designs for the original opera. Innovative motorised video projection screens able to rotate and open, to create various stage effects.

The artist worked with animators to create twenty-one new videos to accompany the live show which interpreted and riffed on early abstract film and Russian Suprematist-art aesthetics and transforming them through glitching and other disruptions.

Her vision for the show was developed from concept drawings to the first live show in six weeks.

'[the] set design staged the perfect backdrop for a show that was just as much a visual experience as it was an auditory one'
Review of Franz Ferdinand at The Fox, Oakland 2014
Showbams.com

'incredible set and costumes created by Kim Coleman'
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