Elsewhere
Welcome to the new public-art collaboration between Lisa Anita Wegner, an artist living with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, and Eric Rose, a renowned multi-sensory specialist and Artistic Director of Ghost River Theatre.
Elsewhere is a self-contained, immersive multi-sensory, interactive filmic experience that brings its audience into the mystery of the Dada Family, a 1930s Performance Cabaret Act that exists outside of linear time, a Portal that embodies the possibility of contacting them.
Robust artist and audience accessibility is central to the story that unfolds as a bespoke experience for the guest who has been specially chosen. The immersive experience includes video, scent, flavour, temperature changes, light, fog, wind, vibration & sound
that places the audience member at the centre of the adventure, for a singular experience of astonishing sensory stimuli and reality-shifting storytelling.
Accessibility is at the core of the project. Audiences will meet the Deaf Oracle of Elsewhere, as well as the Portal Technician who hosts a customizable experience for each audience member: Deaf/ASL interpreter; Audio Description; Relaxed Performance; and eye line height customization are just a few of the ever-evolving elements of the approach to access in Elsewhere.
An initial research phase in December 2024 brought Eric to Toronto as artist in residence at Haus of Dada for an intense immersion in Lisa’s films, artifacts, wind & light-based portals, and the history of both her real family and the performance personae who have evolved their own stories out of that history. This is a process Lisa has dubbed Realistic Confabulation. This is blending of real-life stories with wild fictions of other worlds and times is a cornerstone of her artistic work.
Phase One Research, December 2-6 2024 at Haus of Dada Toronto
Dada Universe: Film, Portals, Artifacts & History by Lisa Anita Wegner
Artist in Residence at Haus of Dada Eric Rose
Research Assistant/ Co-Producer Lisa McKeown
Filmmakers Ciaran Federico and Carson Davidson
American Sign Language Partner Sage Lovell, Deaf Spectrum as The Deaf Oracle of Elsewhere
Audio Description Partner (Blind and low vision)Â Kat Germain
Grant Writer John R Taylor
Mighty Brave Productions at Haus of Dada
Research Funded by a private donation
