An immersive installation exploring grief, communal gathering, modernity and more is opening in Los Angeles next month with an original score by producers Tokimonsta, Boreta (the solo project from The Glitch Mob member Justin Boreta) and El Búho. The installation’s soundtrack will also including music by Jean-Michel Jarre, Andrew Bird, Air, Rival Consoles and Kiasmos.
Called The Cortège, the installation is a three-hour experience during which participants will be guided through various phases beginning with an open air food market and live music including hang drum and cello. At dusk, participants will experience an hour-long processional performance composed of, as the press release for the event states, “choreographed movement, archetypal costuming, drone apparitions, puppetry, robotics and participation.”
A project by Visomnia, a creative studio founded by Oakland-based artist Jeff Hull, and production partner Brilliant Work, The Cortège is partially inspired by Carl Jung’s theory of the collective unconscious and is designed to explore the concepts of mythic pageantry, solace, celebration, renewal, collective and personal grief and more.
The experience concludes in an area that will serve tea and host DJ sets by artists including Carlos Niño, Superposition (the duo made up of Boreta and Matthew Davos whose 2020 album Form//Less was nominated for a best new age album Grammy), Nailah Hunter, Secular Sabbath, Alan Watts Org, Living Earth and more artists and collectives to be announced in the coming weeks.
The Cortège opens at The Cricket Field at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center on Sept. 11 and runs Thursday through Sunday through Sept. 28. Tickets begin at $87 and are currently on sale. Find more information about The Cortège here.
