Nia Archives - Junglist World Tour 2024/25, Swear Studio
Brixton Academy + World, 2024
Role: Lead Designer

"Nia said that her album ‘Silence Is Loud’ was like a diary of her life, so we designed her new show as a diary of a single night out. This loose narrative thread takes us on a rollercoaster, visual journey into New-gen Jungle via different scenes: Nia’s bedroom, a lift interior, through a subway tunnel to a roller shuttered shop, inside a convenience store, and finally into the back of a cab with Rinse FM on the Stereo. Everything in the show, from set and stage design to video, lighting and camera direction, all springs from that central narrative idea.

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The visuals play with the aesthetic of the music production. High intensity, layered components run simultaneously across multiple screens. Brand new elements are chopped into re-edits of archive rave footage, with 3D components courtesy of Intranet Girl. Dot-matrix graphics are a recurring storytelling motif, creating patterns and textures that follow the intensity and energy of the music.

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A specially designed DJ booth immerses Nia in this visual world, and with live cameras also feeding in, the result feels immediate, unique and contemporary whilst also referencing ‘the archive’ - the past - in myriad ways."

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Photos: Martin Perry