Current Events > Immersive art experiences are super popular right now. I'm not convinced tho.

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I went to that Area 15 Meow Wolf thing here in Vegas this past weekend. Tbh I think it's little more than a gimmick, mostly just theme park equivalent shit for adults that need some sort of escape. Which is totally fine. But it's being pushed as the next big art movement and I'm not entirely convinced that it should be.

The execution of the theme of Omega Mart (dystopian critique of consumerism) felt more like they were pushing towards that dystopia than some form of meta commentary on it. Which I guess could be commentary on the whole immersive art movement in general, but they're not self aware enough to pull it off. It also didn't feel very focused.

These immersive art experiences just feel a little soulless too imo. The Van Gogh experience was very much just a social media spot. Just a place to take pics. A bunch of walls with images projected on them. Basically quadrupled the the ticket price just for a digitized collage of what you would see in a museum. And there's a lot of different versions of this. I've seen a Frida Kahlo one, Basquiat, etc. They're all pretty much the same.

Idk maybe I'm just cynical. I did go to Kusama's Infinity exhibit a few years back and was blown away by that. But that felt very different than what is becoming popular now.

Eve Sussman and Ai Weiwei are the only contemporary artists I know, rate my cred

MedeaLysistrata posted...

Eve Sussman and Ai Weiwei are the only contemporary artists I know, rate my cred

Pretty good artists to know tbh

I agree. I don't seek out art experiences, but the ones I've gone to with friends or whatever have been lackluster. Van Gogh was 100% boring even in the trailers. A lot of the other 'experiences' like "Alice in Wonderland's Tearoom" or "Bridgerton" are just expensive not-quite dinner theaters mixed with the dullest parts of a mediocre circus. The popups definitely feel like a cash grab most of the time.

Omega Mart (haven't seen in real life, but saw the trailers) aspires to be something like Liza Lou's Kitchen, but seems to be missing a lot of the actual bite.

It's so boring lol my girl dragged me to the Van Gogh one in Miami. My toe was broken at the time so maybe I had a bad attitude, but like I'd already seen his art and now you charged me $25 to watch you project it at a white wall...