Photo by Vanessa Thill
This holiday weekend, the Knockdown Center in Queens is playing host to the annual You Are Here (Trouble Maze) music festival. Its name is not in vain: the festival's music and dance acts will perform inside a giant string maze, and the audience will be able to interact with the performers and surrounding space. For the 2016 incarnation, festival organizers promise a larger maze with a new design. As for the musical acts, this year's expansive line-up includes electronica from none other than Prefuse 73 soul-searching modern gospel from serpentwithfeet, mellow hip-hop beats from Noah B, and much more.
"The You Are Here Festival seeks to leverage the installation itself to promote a different performance and listening experience," said Sam Hillmer, one of the festival organizers. "The structure of the maze is meant to be a playful push to get people to rethink the ways in which they take in music in live settings... It's not so much of a statement as much of an inquiry, a consideration of what might happened if we really shook up the ant farm of the face of performance presentation in N.Y.C. right now."
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Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. See the full list of performers below.
