AIR OFFERS YOU A MULTI-FLOOR, MULTI-SPACE IMMERSION THAT CHALLENGES YOUR NOTIONS OF PHYSICAL REALITY, THE CITY THAT SURROUNDS YOU, AND YOUR SENSE OF SELF.
In a true love letter to New York City, Kenzo Digital, an artist who creates emotionally powerful, mind-bending alternate worlds in physical and virtual spaces, has taken a thousand-foot-high venue, with a view that spans from Coney Island to the Bronx Zoo, and created a multisensory, transformative experience that is groundbreaking, euphoric, and will forever change the way we view the New York City skyline.
Air is a walkthrough art experience that begins after entering SUMMIT One Vanderbilt adjacent to Grand Central Terminal and extends through a mirrored, light-infused elevator ride up a thousand feet to the 91st floor. Once atop the building, Air offers you a multi-floor, multi-space immersion that challenges your notions of physical reality, the city that surrounds you, and your sense of self.
Air is a story of both literal and figurative reflection. Through the use of glass mirrors on every structural surface, Air appears boundless, without fixed form, and offers a tantalizing and singular experience for each at each moment. With everything mirrored, each step rearranges what you see with incredible complexity and scale, as if in defiance of physics. Air defamiliarizes the world, and the process of finding a new equilibrium opens up a sense of elemental curiosity.
Air is an immersion in nature in the heart of Manhattan, likened to a Central Park in the sky. With its unique vantage point, Air brings the outside environment into the space and then magnifies it infinitely. Whether sunrise or sunset, blue sky or cloudy, rain or snow, inside Air, every weather pattern conjures a revelatory world that provides endless opportunity for exploration.
In addition to its remarkable materiality, Air is a living, breathing entity, expressed through its multisensory use of sound, lighting, production design, and game engine. It’s a story that evolves with each successive space, bringing you deeper and deeper into the experience until finally, you become part of it. Though Air is deeply personal, the experience reveals shared consciousness, inviting visitors of any age to revel in collective wonder.
After the sun sets, the magic of Air takes new form as the space is transformed through a one-of-a-kind light and sound story, turning it into a beacon of energy, visible to all of New York City.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Opens to the public on October 21, 2021.
Can be viewed and experienced exclusively at Summit One Vanderbilt.
Tickets: here
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