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
BODY PAINT
Memo Akten
Playing on our natural instinct to express ourselves through movement and dance, Body Paint interprets our physical gestures into evolving compositions. Body Paint is about interaction experience, captured through this motion and the energy of the body.
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.
RULES
Paola Ibarra Llano
RULES is a collaborative installation created by visitors over time based on three simple rules. The aim is to explore how new connections are created between people who share a physical space and that might not have otherwise had a pretext to start a conversation.
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.
KILLING TIME
Mesplé
Killing Time is a kinetic hourglass sculpture. When a viewer approaches the sculpture, an internal sensor detects their presence. A curated sequence is triggered, releasing a deep black liquid, ferrofluid, producing breath-like motion from and into the mouth of a polished skull.
Photo courtesy of the artist.
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
TICKETS
BODY PAINT by Memo Akten
Photo by Derek Ji
Premium Admission $50
General Admission $25
Child (3-12) $15
Child (under 3) FREE
Members FREE
HOURS
Monday: 1PM-8PM
Tuesday: 1PM-8PM
Wednesday: 12PM-10PM
Thursday: 12PM-10PM
Friday: 10AM-11PM
Saturday: 10AM-11PM
Sunday: 10AM-10PM
Extended holiday hours December 23, 24, & 26 from 10AM-10PM. Closed December 25.
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Holiday hours may vary.
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LOCATION
1205 Sheldon Cove, Suite 2-A, Austin, TX 78753
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