SENSORY WARNING
THE LUME Indianapolis is a multi-sensory experience with bright and contrasting lighting, changing sounds, strong smells and scents, large images, crowds, and various additional stimuli.
A small percentage of guests may experience health difficulties or even epileptic seizures when exposed to certain light patterns, noises or flashing lights. Exposure to certain noises, patterns, or backgrounds in THE LUME Indianapolis may induce a health event or even an epileptic seizure in these certain individuals. Certain conditions within THE LUME Indianapolis may induce health difficulties and previously undetected epileptic symptoms even in persons who have no history of prior seizures or epilepsy.
If you, or anyone you are purchasing tickets on behalf of, have serious health issues, have an epileptic condition, or any health condition you believe can be triggered by a sensory event please consult your physician prior to visiting this experience. If you experience any of the following symptoms while participating in THE LUME Indianapolis —dizziness, nausea, altered vision, eye or muscle twitches, loss of awareness, disorientation, any involuntary movement, or convulsions—IMMEDIATELY exit the experience and request assistance from Newfields’ staff.
Image Credits:
Installation views of THE LUME Indianapolis featuring Connection: Land, Water, Sky – Art & Music from Indigenous Australians in the IMA Galleries, May 9, 2025–February 2026. THE LUME Indianapolis and Connection are created by Grande Experiences. Artworks © the respective visual artists with any and all related Indigenous rights retained by the respective Indigenous Australians.
Detail of Earth’s Creation. Artwork © and all related Indigenous rights retained by Emily Kame Kngwarreye.
Detail of Garrigarang (Sea) from the series Ngura. Artwork © and all related Indigenous rights retained by Konstantina.
Detail of Growth from the series Raining. Artwork © and all related Indigenous rights retained by Konstantina.
Installation view of THE LUME Melbourne featuring Connection. Courtesy of Grande Experiences. Artworks © the respective visual and musical artists with any and all related Indigenous rights retained by the respective Indigenous Australians.
Detail of Yam Dreaming. Artwork © and all related Indigenous rights retained by Anna Pitjara.
Anila Quayyum Agha (Pakistani-American, b. 1965), This is NOT a Refuge, 2018, laser cut, powder coated, aluminum steel plate, 12 × 10 × 8 ft. with a 4 × 18 ft. wood bench inside. The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park at Newfields, On loan from the artist. © Anila Quayyum Agha.
Exhibition Credits and Acknowledgements:
Connection was developed and supported by a curatorial advisory panel of experts and leaders in the arts, including producer, director and arts executive Rhoda Roberts AO, Indigenous photographic artist Wayne Quilliam, Aboriginal art specialist Adam Knight and National Museum lead Indigenous curator Margo Neale.
This experience honors the vital contribution that First Peoples artists make to Australia’s design, arts and cultural landscape.