EXPERIENCE EXTRAORDINARY Art
An ever-changing immersive and interactive art show with a full bar
Featured Artwork: Plume by Ian Brill
Photo credit: Matt Dayak
Wonderspaces presents an evolving lineup of extraordinary art installations and signature cocktails to experience with friends and family in the heart of Philadelphia. Open year-round with regular artwork changes.
NOW SHOWING
SUBMERGENCE Squidsoup
Submergence is an immersive installation comprised of 8,064 individual points of light visitors walk through. The lights continually change colors in correspondence to music. Submergence creates awe-inspiring feelings of movement within physical space.
photo by Devon Hutchins
ROBOTIC VOICE ACTIVATED WORD KICKING MACHINE Neil Mendoza
Robotic Voice Activated Word Kicking Machine is an interactive installation that transforms audiences’ spoken words into a visual and auditory experience. It offers a novel perspective on our interaction with technology, turning speech into text and motion through the inventive use of robotics and sound. This artwork invites audiences to engage directly, creating a unique and playful exploration of language and digital interaction.
photo courtesy of the artist
ERUPTURE Nicole Banowetz
Erupture is an inflatable sculpture that depicts a surreal landscape of microscopic lifeforms. Their enlarged presence makes the installation feel calm, comforting, yet disorienting. The arrangement of these inflatables recalls dioramas from biology class, with large groupings of these odd forms bursting at delicate seams
photo by Airi Katusta
ON A HUMAN SCALE Matthew Matthew
On a Human Scale is an interactive instrument that highlights our diversity and our shared humanity. It consists of a modified harpsichord that plays, in real-time, people singing.
photo by Victor Ren
SWEEPERS CLOCK Maarten Baas
Sweepers Clock is a recorded performance of two people sweeping trash for twelve hours. The film presents time in the format of a physical, labor-intensive process. It is a part of the series, Real Time, which are 12-hour long performances indicating the time.
photo courtesy of the artist
THANK YOU BAGS Reed van Brunschot
Playing with scale as it invites visitors to consider the overuse of plastic and its environmental impact, Thank You Bags reclaims a generic yet iconic symbol of mass consumerism and the excesses of capitalism through two enormous fabric sculptures, filled to capacity with nothing.
phot by Derek Ji
BEFORE I DIE Candy Chang
Before I Die is a global participatory public art project that reimagines our relationship with death and with one another in the public realm. Originally created by artist Candy Chang in New Orleans after the death of a loved one, the artwork invites people to reflect and share their personal aspirations in public.
photo by Society Hill Films
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.
RADIANCE (INFINITY BOX NO. 6) Matt Elson
Radiance (Infinity Box No. 6) created in 2013 by Matt Elson is part of the Awakened Vision Series. Radiance is a two-person experience with two distinctly different views; from the hub looking outward and the wheel facing inward. Each offers their own unique perspectives and insights.
photo courtesy of the artist
MICROMONUMENTAL MAPPING,
THE ESSENCE OF CREATION
Limelight
This visual projection is displayed onto a 1:40 3D model of the Opéra de Lille building in France. Inspired by the national divinity of the Greeks, the artwork conveys this complexity by using the symbolic and physical elements of the building.
photo courtesy of the artist
PLUME Ian Brill
Plume is an immersive, interactive dome of synchronized light and sound gestures. The installation uses motion, sound and color to present an ephemeral and ethereal ecosystem.
photo by Yadira Villarreal
Rainbow Rooms Pierre le Riche
Rainbow Rooms recreates a home scene in which the objects are covered with various fabrics and multi-colored yarn. Even the walls themselves are made of woven yarn. The installation reflects the artist’s experience growing up as a gay man in conservative South Africa, and is intended to stimulate a dialogue about identity, exploring struggles of discrimination, acceptance, and masculinity.
photo by Airi Katsuta
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 Brian Bautista
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 courtesy of the artist
HOURS*
Monday - Wednesday: Closed
Thursday: 12PM-8PM
Friday: 12PM-9PM
Saturday: 12PM-9PM
Sunday: 12PM-8PM
Open November 27 12PM-8PM. Closed Thanksgiving.
Holiday hours may vary.
LOCATION
Wonderspaces Philadelphia is located in Center City just two blocks from the Pennsylvania Convention Center and inside Fashion District Philadelphia. Our mall entrance is on street level across from the escalators at the 11th Street end. Our street entrance at 27 North 11th St is temporarily closed.
BODY PAINT Memo Akten
Photo by Devon Hutchins
