Friday, August 24, 2018
Meow Wolf Creating "Kaleidoscape" Psychedelic Dark Ride At Elitch Gardens in 2019
Theme Park University: It’s finally happening. Immersive art installations and theme parks are finally colliding worlds. Are you familiar with Meow Wolf? If not, you should be. It’s a massive immersive art installation in New Mexico that’s absolutely mind-blowing.
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I don’t quite understand the idea that the article author, Josh Young, states at the beginning that immersive art installations and theme parks are “finally” colliding. It seems to me that we’re just seeing the union of one large company that was primarily immersive art joining up with an equally large theme park company to do what they do best and combine their individual expertise. However, having been to many a theme park, I do believe the Imagineers at Disney would probably scratch their head at this opening sentence and ask, “what are we, chopped liver?” It seems that a lot of immersive art stemmed from theme park practices, traditions, and solutions, combined with theatrical and other entertainment institutions as well, to become their own thing. This feels more like a return to the fold, especially since the end of the article brings up the Nights in White Satin: The Trip. Just because it was based on a song, does that not make the art an immersive installation? That being said, this promises to be one heck of a ride.
I’m very excited about this! I went to see Meow Wolf last december and it as such an amazing and wonderful interactive exhibit. The storyline follows that there has been a death in the fictional family that resides in the house, ultimately setting off a multitude of supernatural events. For instance walk through the refrigerator can lead to a seemingly alien world, and certain doorways open rooms filled with unusual sounds and moving images. The fact that they are pairing with another company to create a dark ride, I think, will result in an incredible new experience. However, the article itself is pretty interesting in that it starts off by saying “Immersive art installations and theme parks are finally colliding.” Theme parks can already be called an ‘immersive art installation’ on its own. They are designed and constructed by professionals in an artistic industry to take their visitors into a different world, or ‘immerse’ them in a place much different than the world they live in. Generally in a lot of these theme parks will also have performers, such as the Disney Princesses or other characters, as well as different parts of the environment can be interacted with, though usually not in the same mind-bending way as Meow Wolf. So I wouldn’t say that these things are ‘finally coming together’ but I can’t wait to hear more about where the Kaleidoscape goes.
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