Intangible Adorations 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.
Intangible Adorations 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.
Elsewhere 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 Mama Dada and the Deaf Oracle of Elsewhere, as well as a 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.
A 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 blending of real-life stories with wild fictions of other worlds and times is a cornerstone of her artistic work.
Artist Research: filming began January 18 2014
Triangle: Ascension Into Another Golden Age 2014
The Mythology of Unworldly and Intangible Adorations 2018
Intangible Adorations: Experience The Icon 2019
Intangible Adorations: The Icon Rises 2020
Did You Get an Adoration In The Mail? A Secret Pandemic Project 2021
Intangible Adorations Caravan 2022
Intangible Adorations Elsewhere 2024
Research with Eric Rose, December 2-6 2024 at Haus of Dada Toronto
Multiple Shorter Development Residencies Summer/Fall 2026 culminating in a two days International Symposium on Creative Accessibility in Contemporary Practise.
Dada Universe: Film, Portals, Artifacts & History by Lisa Anita Wegner
Artist in Residence at Haus of Dada Eric Rose Ghost River Theatre
Technical Director and Portal Technician Matthew Waddell Axis Z Media
Museum Display by Longbranch Design Nikolai Berda
Research Assistant/ Co-Producer Lisa McKeown
Filmmakers Ciaran Federico and Carson Davidson
American Sign Language Partner Sage Lovell, as The Deaf Oracle of Elsewhere
Audio Description Partner Kat Germain The Dada Family Historian
Elsewhere Illustrator Stephanie Avery
Elsewhere Artist and Sign Painter Ray Francis
Autism Consultant Partner Ava Gillespie
Wheelchair Consultant Partner Spencer West
Residency Producer Gabriel Silva
Grant Writer John R Taylor
Mighty Brave Productions at Haus of Dada
2024 Research Funded by a private donation and haus of dada
