A radically different approach to XR in festivals, galleries and museums is happening at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival, which runs through June 17. For the primary time, Tribeca’s immersive offering will happen off-site at Mercer Labs, the newly opened museum of art and technology at 21 Dey Street in Lower Manhattan.
For the primary time, Tribeca’s immersive offering will likely be presented off-site at Mercer Labs, the newly opened museum. … [+]
Eight exclusive large-scale immersive artworks by six artists – Memo Akten, Wen-Yee Hsieh, ScanLAB Projects, Robertina Šebjanič, Liam Young and Sutu – will rotate across three presentations in Mercer Labs’ bespoke exhibition spaces: Body In The World, Redesigning Tomorrow and Far From Nature. Each work represents a particular creative style and comes from artists whose expertise spans architecture, film, animation, sculpture, theatre, dance, music and audio.
Wen-Yee Hsieh, Invisible Them. Projected onto a vaulted ceiling.
Bodies on the earth is this system I experienced. It takes somewhat over an hour to undergo your entire exhibition. This collection is meant to explore “Our physical relationship to the world.“It shows Wen-Yee Hsieh, Invisible to them; Memo Deeds & Katie Hofstadter, embodied simulation; Robertina Šebjanic, CO_SONIC 38,144 km² (spatially implemented in 4DSOUND with MONOM); and Sutus While we waitLiam Young, Planet City
Sutu’s work, a video set in a glass infinity space entitled “While We Wait,” features the artist’s signature neon style.
“While We Wait” by Sutu. Commissioned by the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival.
In The great undertakingto fulfill current climate targets, we must develop the capability to remove existing carbon from the atmosphere on a gigaton scale. Designed to capture all that carbon, The Great Endeavour will likely be the biggest construction project in human history. Working with a network of scientists and engineers, The Great Endeavour recreates the planning, construction and drama of this generation’s moon landing, our last great act of planetary transformation. Visitors enter a six-wall projection in an enormous space. Waves crash overhead because the world’s largest oil rig appears to be pulled by tugboats through stormy seas.
Deep at sea with Liam Young in “The Great Endeavour”.
The advantage of immersive installations over VR is that about 1,000 people per hour can walk through Mercer Labs’ 35,000-square-foot space. Only a couple of dozen can experience a VR experience every day. Tribeca Immersive is open Mon-Thurs 11 a.m. to eight p.m. ET, Fri 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. ET, Sat 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Sun 10 a.m. to eight p.m. ET. buy tickets
