#ui-intermediaconcepts-other

[phantomintermedia-blog]

Horror is definitely something I love and always end up back at when I’m thinking of my of art. This was a surprising find in the Meow Wolf site. Everything screamed neon and color and lights. But I also love challenging concepts and preconceived notions. For example, that color can not be scary or eerie. In these spaces, which was the first time this space had been divided into different smaller spaces, it was so refreshing to see so many different takes to horror. 

I really enjoy this site and I bookmarked it for inspiration later!

[eissimare]

MEOW WOLF

After snooping around on their site and watching their mini documentary, I’m absolutely stunned at the scale and the immersiveness of this collective. Meow Wolf began as a small art space showcasing murals by two dudes, and transitioned between another space, a literal boat installation, a traveling show, to what is now their permanent space in an old bowling alley.

Watching this video, an old sense of wonder returned to me. I was excited, and immediately entranced. When I was a kid, I would easily get imaginative after watching a movie or reading a book—worlds that didn’t exist were so easy to enter, and were so much more exciting to think about while I sat in a desk at school. The work at Meow Wolf does justice to that longing for a type of experience that is out of this world.

I admire their willingness to be weird, their eccentricity. They didn’t have a space for what they wanted to create, so they ended up making it themselves. What they do is so inspiring, as ultimately I realize it’s what I want to do. I want to take people on an adventure, be able to leave this world, just for a little bit, and I want it to be as weird and as fantastic as possible.

I looked to see if they were offering any internships, but it doesn’t seem like that’s so. I still might email them or something, given this is the work I’d most like to do. I don’t know how I could attain that career, but I suppose I just need to make my own career, like they did.

[sarahshoemakerphoto-blog]

Other Art Spaces

I’ve noticed a trend with how I pick which link I click on, I decide based on how the site title sounds. That’s what I did with this section as well. I clicked on the first link, Mattress Factory. I love installations so this site definitely is standing out to me and a place that I would love to visit. I clicked on the exhibitions link because I’m always curious about what’s going on at the moment. I found Dennis Maher’s installation, “A Second Home”, which is on display now until August 2019.  I like that it doesn't feel like an art installation and instead feels like a home. 

[flezner]

QUEERLAB

Elsewhere Living Museum

http://www.goelsewhere.org/about/

What interested me most about the go elsewhere collective was that it provided a space for queer youth in the QUEERLAB. This program takes in young artists from the surrounding queer community in North Carolina and organizes a seasonal magazine titled I Don’t Do Boxes which focuses on issues, activities, and ideas revolving around the diverse queer identity and experience. 

I think it would have been cool to have access to space like this as a kid growing up in the Midwest. A place that nurtures artistic and personal exploration and integrity. The work that these teens are putting together is outstanding! I looked through one of their issues titled “OUTerspace” which focuses on similar situations that align people who identify as queer. The photography and literature captured me. I think I’d like to work within an organization in the area to get something like this started for queer here in Iowa City or in Cedar Rapids if it doesn’t already exist.

[iowa-keanureeves-blog]

I first clicked on the Meow Wolf link, because who can resist a name like that? I clicked on the About- projects tab and explored the various exhibits they had going on. They all look like a lot of fun, but the one I liked the most was the one entitled The Due Return. It features “an inter-dimensional ship settled on an alien landscape.” The outside of the ship features a white sculpture of a being with angel wings, a man’s torso, a woman’s hips/legs and a wolf’s head. The siding of the ship has some wooden planks missing, allowing yellow light shines through. Most of the inside of the ship sticks to the yellowish, wooden theme with boxes upon boxes on tiny shelves and fancy, cushioned chairs. The bedrooms are full of brighter, glowing lights of pink, blue, yellow, purple and green, The beds look inviting, with colorful pillows placed on them and sheets messily draped on top. Overall, I enjoyed “Other Art Spaces” the most (so far) out of all the categories. I definitely like how strange a lot of the art pieces are.

[monetcantbuymelove]

House of the Eternal Return

Meow Wolf

Santa Fe NM

This is an explorative installation, based around a story of the disappearance of the Selig Family, the Meow Wolf team works with actors and technology to weave a story of mystery, that may or may not have an ending.

In this place, the normal rules do not apply, and visitors with curiosity and imagination are rewarded, other people will probably feel a little uncomfortable. 

If a haunted house is designed to give you the thrill of fear, then this house is designed to reignite the spark of make-believe in you. They invite people of all ages to explore, and while I’m sure children are one of the main audiences, I have no doubt that the people running the house get a thrill from seeing parents whispering conspiratorially too each other.

Play is important, pretend is critical. But it’s hard, especially when someone’s life is defined by deadlines. Which is why fun places like this house are so important, they give us permission to slip back into those make-believe roles and enjoy our own imagination for a while.

[slimedawgmillionaires]

Upon seeing this image of Yayoi Kusama’s piece, “Repetitive Vision”, I immediately recognized her work. As a result of an affliction which causes her to see spots, her work acts as a mirror of her own vision. I find this idea very interesting and empowering: instead of having her vision hinder her work, it makes her work. Pictured is one of two permanent installations she currently has at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

[shangxiaban]

Other art spaces

this project made by Amber Coppings, it is called Echoes of objects(2009). I like the project because the the relationship between the space and the time, light and shadow

[iowa-keanureeves-blog]

Other Art Spaces

I first clicked on the Meow Wolf link, because who can resist a name like that? I clicked on the About- projects tab and explored the various exhibits they had going on. They all look like a lot of fun, but the one I liked the most was the one entitled The Due Return. It features “an inter-dimensional ship settled on an alien landscape.” The outside of the ship features a white sculpture of a being with angel wings, a man’s torso, a woman’s hips/legs and a wolf’s head. The siding of the ship has some wooden planks missing, allowing yellow light shines through. Most of the inside of the ship sticks to the yellowish, wooden theme with boxes upon boxes on tiny shelves and fancy, cushioned chairs. The bedrooms are full of brighter, glowing lights of pink, blue, yellow, purple and green, The beds look inviting, with colorful pillows placed on them and sheets messily draped on top. Overall, I enjoyed “Other Art Spaces” the most (so far) out of all the categories. I definitely like how strange a lot of the art pieces are.

[asacroweintermedia-blog]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwFhS6ZgZFg)