A generative multi-media retelling of all origin myths and a pool party opera (respectively).

Altar VI: Shapes (and other Shapes) In the first phase of trance an altered state of consciousness would come about. People would experience geometric shapes commonly known as entoptic phenomena. These would include zigzags, chevrons, dots, flecks, grids, vortices and U-shapes.

During the second phase of trance people try to make sense of the entoptic phenomena. They would elaborate the shape they had ‘seen’ until they had created something that looked familiar to them.
In the third phase a radical transformation occurs in mental imagery. Subjects have found that they experience sliding down a rotating tunnel, entering caves or holes in the ground. People in the third phase begin to lose their grip on reality and hallucinate monsters and animals of strong emotional content. In this phase heightened sensory awareness gives one the feeling that they have undergone a physical transformation.

Featuring Work By: The Octopus Project is a multimedia rock n’ roll band from Austin, TX. Fantasy PhD consists of visual artists Wiley Wiggins & Katie Rose Pipkin.

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PLASMA POOL VII: ALTAR EDITION is a trans-media non-opera psycho-lecture that tells, or rather demonstrates, the experiments of estranged ex-choir director Cordey Lopez and his relationship to the baffling, organic hyper-computer inhabiting his subterranean studio apartment.

In this immersive experience of hi-sci-fi meets lo-art, sculpture, dance, interactive electronics, video, puppetry, breaks into song, and blah-blah-whatever are crammed into a particle accelerator (clank-crackle-swoosh-pop!), yielding an orgiastic, primordial ballet.

The audience is invited to become part of this absurdist gezamtkumstverk and take an acid bath in the core processor’s voltaic cell (which looks a lot like a relaxing swimming pool).

BRING A SWIMSUIT AND A TOWEL. THERE IS AN ABOVE GROUND POOL.

“Plasma Pool VII” is a collaboration between Cordey Lopez, Danni Tsuboi, Olivia Warner, and friends.

Danni Tsuboi is a recovering alcoholic residing in a vacuum cleaner in Tijuana, Mexico.

Cordey Lopez is an emotionally unstable eco-warrior eating the dirt from under his mom’s nails.

Olivia Warner is a retired veteran just trying to get by for a day without those crazy kids watering the nose hog again.