Featured Artwork: Body Paint by Memo Akten, Submergence by Squidsoup, Micromonumental Mapping, The Essence of Creation by Limelight, Killing Time by Mesplé.
Video: OTHER NY and courtesy of the artists
Wonderspaces presents extraordinary art installations and signature cocktails to experience together with friends and family.
Open year-round with regular changes to the artwork lineup.
CURRENT ARTWORK
CONSTANTLY TRAVELING TOWARDS THE SUN
Massimiliano Moro
Constantly Traveling Towards the Sun is a kinetic sculpture that focuses on an infinite loop around a circle of light, a timeless journey with no beginning or end. It invites viewers to explore the delicate dance of light, shadows, and reflections that fill the surrounding space. Allowing the viewer to lose track of time and discover a new perspective.
photo courtesy of the artist
BLOOMS
John Edmark
Blooms are 3D-printed sculptures designed to animate when spun under a strobe light. The rotational speed and the strobe light frequency are synchronized so that one flash occurs every time the bloom turns 137.5 degrees--the angular version of the golden ratio (0.618...).
photo by Devon Hutchins
MICROMONUMENTAL MAPPING, THE ESSENCE OF CREATION
Limelight
Micromonumental Mapping, The Essence of Creation by Limelight was originally created to be displayed on the Opéra de Lille in France for the Lille Video Mapping Festival that was set to take place in April 2020. Due to COVID 19, the festival had to be postponed so the artists decided to downscale and project it onto a 1:40 3D model of the building.
Photo courtesy of the artists.
EXHIBITION IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ART FROM THE STREETS
A selection of works from Art From the Streets artists are on display and available for purchase. Art From the Streets creates a safe space for Austin's unhoused community to create art, build healthy relationships, and feel validation through the sale of their work.
Before I Die
Candy Chang
Before I Die reimagines how the walls of our cities can help us grapple with mortality and meaning as a community today. Anyone walking by could pick up a piece of chalk, reflect on death and life, and share their personal aspirations in public.
photo by Yadira Villarreal
SEWING MACHINE ORCHESTRA
Martin Messier
Sewing Machine Orchestra is a sound and light installation composed of twelve synced sewing machines. The machines’ continual movements steadily increase in power and volume, gradually building to full speed as the accelerating rhythm creates a discordant, electro-acoustic concert.
photo by Alexis Bellavance
SWEET SPOT
Shawn Causey & Mark Daniell
Sweet Spot is an immersive installation made of 19 miles of multicolor nylon string. Visitors activate the experience by moving; every new perspective reveals color harmonies. The installation brings awareness to the act of seeing and looking. The artwork is composed of 19 miles of nylon string, strung 12 feet high.
photo courtesy of the artists
ARC
Ian Brill
Arc is an immersive, generative, audiovisual installation inspired by the experience of riding subways as a child and tells a fable regarding the momentous necessity of technology.
SUBMERGENCE
Squidsoup
Submergence is an immersive installation comprised of 8,064 individual points of light visitors walkthrough. The lights continually change colors in correspondence to music. Submergence creates awe-inspiring feelings of movement within physical space.
photo by Devon Hutchins
HUMAN STUDY #1, 3RNP
Patrick Tresset
Human Study #1, 3RNP is an installation where the human becomes an actor. In a scene reminiscent of a life drawing class, the human takes the sitter's role to be sketched by three robots. The drawings become part of another artwork titled The Collection which already includes more than 36,000 drawings.
photo by Charles Darr
ELI
Nate Milton
ELI is a true story based on the filmmaker’s experiences within the realms of high strangeness, magical thinking, and manic delusion.
photo courtesy of the artist
THE LAST WORD
Illegal Art
The Last Word is an invitation to share thoughts left unsaid. Thousands of tightly rolled pieces of paper, dyed red on one end and left untouched on the other offer an opportunity to anonymously complete your conversations or explore the unexpressed sentiments of others.
photo by Derek Ji
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