Sensual Laboratories

An innovative counter-history that places the liquid light show at the heart of a new understanding of experimental audio-visual art in the 1960s. Throughout the 1960s the liquid light show was the quintessential mode of countercultural expression: live, interactive, collaborative, acid-bright, and ephemeral. Flowering in coffee bars and discotheques, they quickly became synonymous with the wildest excesses of psychedelic art and popular music. But light shows also crucially inspired avant-garde