Russian-born, New-York-based artistic duo Portable Palace (Dmitry Gelfand and Evelyn Domnitch) have spiritual aims that go beyond your average artist's statement. The two purport that their Wakening Shrouds installation "is an attempt to model a soul." They sum up their unique obsession as the point at which "the early universe (the prima materia) spontaneously separated into the celestial ladder of interlocking essences." Which leads them to project trippy light images and sound onto water vapour creating hallucinatory visions.
Their strange and steamy spectacle recalls the primordial ooze from where we all came. Gelfand and Domnitch have also been known to carry on about the human brain containing gold molecules and this having to do with "the soul's ascent up the omnidirectional ladder of our cosmos." The site of the installation, the abandoned Wellington Tunnel, only adds to the peculiarity of this artistic, metaphysical venture. At the corner of de la Montagne and Wellington, Aug. 26 (opening, 7 p.m., performance, 8 p.m.) through Sept. 14, on weekdays from sunset to midnight, Friday and Saturday till 3 a.m. Info: 392-1554.
Russian-born, New-York-based artistic duo Portable Palace (Dmitry Gelfand and Evelyn Domnitch) have spiritual aims that go beyond your average artist's statement. The two purport that their Wakening Shrouds installation "is an attempt to model a soul." They sum up their unique obsession as the point at which "the early universe (the prima materia) spontaneously separated into the celestial ladder of interlocking essences." Which leads them to project trippy light images and sound onto water vapour creating hallucinatory visions.