In what the artist says is a "mash-up of theatre, ride-attraction, installation, game, and iconic spiritual simulation" the experience invites users to launch themselves 30 feet into the air using electroencephalography (EEG), which is a process that records electrical activity from neurons in the brain.
The attraction is an installation, "Ideal City," by Kim Beck -- not drawings, sculpture and video by Mark Woods.
The main attraction is an installation of allegorical neo-Surrealist paintings by Mr. Grey that, in the context of a carefully orchestrated theatrical environment, is designed to transport paying visitors into states of ecstatic reverence for life, love and universal interconnectedness.
It is then that I see the actual artistic attraction, the central installation of the night: the guests themselves. .
A kilometer of steel corridors -- weighing 186 tons and with walls of up to five metres in height -- are arranged so the end result is part-tourist attraction, part-sculptural installation.
The central attraction was four installations, each created by an artist working with a community institution and embodying one of the four words in the exhibit's title.
The final week of the Brooklyn Emerging Artists in Theatre Festival features a roving pop-up camper, the centerpiece of "Roadside Attraction," a performance-installation of nineteen-seventies nostalgia by Third Rail Projects.
It is hoped the building will become something of a tourist attraction, possibly involving the installation of restaurants and bars, though one thing should be made clear.
Anyone who liked swings as a child — and that should include quite a few of us — will probably feel a surprisingly visceral attraction to Ann Hamilton's installation "the event of a thread" at the Park Avenue Armory.
Located in the former Olympic Park, the main site of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the new 560-acre urban park in East London will include recreational and sports facilities, outdoor event spaces, art installations, attractions and ample areas to picnic and take in nature when it opens fully in 2014.
