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Salena Martinez, 24, and Luisa Storey, 22, play the bones of a creature at Meow Wolf’s House of Eternal Return like a marimba on Dec. 18, 2017 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The exhibit is an immersive hybrid between an art installation and a museum, and the company has another location on tape for Denver later this year. (Dylan Owens, Denver Post file)
The slow but inevitable tyranny of “immersive experiences” is back.
Yes, we’ve seen it coming. No, it’s not the end of the world. But it can be confusing. And insulting. And boring.
There’s a bandwagonesque quality to it (with apologies to Teenage Fanclub, which coined the term). Blindfolded dinners and secret bars full of wasted twentysomethings are easy to mock. But what of the half-dozen “immersive” Vincent van Gogh installations in the works nationally, including a dueling pair that announced Denver dates this spring?