What Festivals Ought to Do
I love anything that makes an event special, and Voodoo’s announcement of a one-time only, coordinated activity between French electronica duo Justice and the Life is Art Foundation. Things like that give a festival identity, even if it’s a one-off. The years that Voodoo took place on the Halloween weekend made such an impression with costumed attendees that I didn’t realize how infrequently it had been on Halloween in recent years. Anyway, here’s the press release:
In keeping with the true spirit of the Voodoo Experience, French DJ duo Justice will present a one-time only live performance in collaboration with the Life is Art Foundation. The Life is Art Foundation and Rehage Entertainment are curating a large scale 20+ piece international art installation within the Voodoo grounds featuring artists with roots as diverse as remote villages in the Upper Amazon to MIT students to the Rehage Design team. For Justice’s pre-Eminem set on Friday night, they will choreograph their performance with Illusion Eyetrap, a meditation exhibit featuring 63 enormous helium ballons. Justice will bring the installation to life as music and light mix to evoke a range of moods in a communal celebration.
Yes, it sounds nutty and pretentious, but it also sounds like something I wouldn’t get at many other festivals. And that makes all the difference.
