Part root vegetable, part deity: Inside Everything Is Terribles new Meow Wolf L.A. installation
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When Meow Wolf’s Los Angeles location opens later this year, one of its biggest residents will be a 20-foot-tall, 1,000-pound amoeba-like creature named WoWoW.Created by the L.A.-based multimedia collective Everything Is Terrible, WoWoW is alternately described as a “cosmic entity” and a “cartoony, root vegetable floating alien god.” The multi-eyed organism will serve as the centerpiece of “the N.E.S.T.,” an EIT-designed section of Meow Wolf’s new 26,000-square-foot immersive exhibition space.That acronym has yet to be explained, and is cloaked in Meow Wolf’s intentionally mysterious messaging about its latest incarnation, which is set in an old Cinemark movie theater in West L.A.and will tackle the ephemeral joys and hardships of Hollywood’s dream factory.
The L.A.location will be the Santa Fe, N.M.-based immersive art and entertainment company’s fifth outpost after Denver, Las Vegas, Houston and the Dallas suburbs.The L.A.
space boasts 45 local collaborating artists including Gabriela Ruiz, David Altmejd and more.Each is building their own unique installation featuring a variety of sculptures, dioramas and new media.Everything Is Terrible is one of Meow Wolf’s most prolific partners, creating a variety of psychedelic characters for various installations over the years.
The collective dreamed up the N.E.S.T.about two years ago as a way of paying tribute to maximalist roadside attractions like Wisconsin’s House on the Rock or New Mexico’s Tinkertown Museum.
It also tells the story of the Noothies, a made-up community of former below-the-line film workers who stumbled upon a god — and a hidden truth about the nature of reality.The installation presents a paradox by being a Hollywood idea that is completely un-Hollywood.It may wink at the industry’s unseen heroes, but who can afford to make art for art’s sake in the entertainment industry anymo...