“Convergence Station,” the company’s third installation, may be good business. It is possible that I tried too hard the real thrill of Meow Wolf comes not in wrapping your mind around its enigmas but in letting its 90,000 square feet of enigmas wrap themselves around you.ĭavid Williams, The New York TimesA guest climbs through a wall at Meow Wolf’s “Convergence Station,” location in Denver, Sept. In the end, I spent another $9.50 in the gift shop for a slim paperback that got me nearer to understanding Eemia, Numina, Ossuary and the other peoples and places that make up this scenario. I paid $3 for a wallet-size Q Pass that activated digital screens dispensing clues. I explored secret corridors, read text, watched animations and asked the actors/workers for help. If I don’t have the story arc correct, it is not for a lack of trying. One story, for example, involves a bus driver named Pam, who once steered her vehicle into Convergence Station and vanished. There are subnarratives that explain it all - if you can add up the clues. Somehow these elements come together as Convergence Station, an interplanetary transit hub where different worlds connect but where “Earthers” remain outsiders. Visitors can sit behind the wheel of futuristic cars, flip through books in a pretend library, wander into a neon cathedral with a playable pipe organ or enter a beauty salon, pizzeria or grocery store, each with its own surreal twist. Tuesday, December 12th 2023 Home Page Close Menu Laura Beausire is a Colorado-based writer and photographer who has contributed to Condé Nast Traveler, Wine Enthusiast, Hemispheres, Sierra, Robb Report, The Denver Post, and TravelAge West. And maybe more importantly, remind them that they can be different than how they’ve been.” “We hope that visiting a Meow Wolf inspires the imagination and reminds folks that the world can be different than it has been. “This tendency has compromised our ability to explore and discover, to imagine, to envision possibility, to create the unprecedented,” Kadlubek says. ![]() It’s a successful strategy: In 2022, Meow Wolf’s locations recorded a total of 2.7 million visitors.Īs the physical world has become confined by predictable design parameters, Meow Wolf’s visionaries believe their work matters now more than ever before. Meanwhile, existing locations continue to change as installations and theatrics are transformed and updated on a rolling cycle of perpetual creation. And a Meow Wolf outpost in Houston is scheduled to debut 2024. A new, 29,000-square-foot Grapevine location is slated to open this summer in the Grapevine Mills mall featuring the work of more than 30 Texas-based artists. The next stuff Meow Wolf is making will be in The Lone Star State. Martin.Īs new Meow Wolf projects open, others are updated to narratively connect the locations. (The group literally plucked their two-word name from a hat.) Their first permanent exhibition was built in an old bowling alley they purchased with the help of Santa Fe resident and Game of Thrones author George R.R. “Meow Wolf is opening a gateway to learn what it means to engage with art,” explains Vince Kadlubek, who launched Meow Wolf in 2008 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, as a DIY artist collective alongside Sean Di Ianni, Matt King, Corvas Brinkerhoff, Emily Montoya, Caity Kennedy, and Benji Geary. Disorientation is the fuel that Meow Wolf artists hope will light a creative fire in everyone. ![]() If that sounds like your idea of fun, you’re in luck.
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