You might encounter a bank of stylized laundry machines where the push of a button generates an action. In some places, you might need to get down on your hands and knees to visit a space where you can see the world from the point of view of a prairie dog. It might be faces protruding out of a wall, an electronic screen that responds to touch, an old street sweeper decked out as some sort of alien probe, or a room full of sentient musical instruments that communicate with one another. With the exception of the stairwells and the rest rooms, every inch of it is covered in … something. To walk through Convergence Station is to be overwhelmed. To that end, there are a number of in-character, in-costume docents spread throughout the installation to answer questions and add color (they weren’t there on the media tour I did earlier this week). Of course, one can also just traipse through the astonishing variety of all-new, wildly unique and inventive art without thinking too much about the story, but it’s more fun if you know a little bit about it. It’s a heady concept, but an ideal through line for the Meow Wolf approach, whose two other installations in Santa Fe (the original) and Las Vegas (opened earlier this year) also rely on an overarching story as a wireframe for a dizzying array of artistic expression. The whole conceit behind Convergence Station, the third and largest of the Meow Mix fleet, is that a cosmic event of sorts crashed four different worlds from four different universes into one another. There are 79 unique environments in the four floors of interactive art, but they’re not just placed willy-nilly. There are, however, a few things about Convergence Station that visitors wouldn’t know if they didn’t do their homework beforehand. The photos and some of the video I’ll share here do a much better job, and there are rafts of information online about what Meow Wolf is and how the new Convergence Station fits into the Meow Mix (sorry). It’s silly, perhaps, to use words to describe something like the new Meow Wolf installation just opened in Denver. The interactive, immersive ‘Convergence Station’ is now open in Denver
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