No Place To Go Is a Pandemic-Safe Haunted House Experience
No Place To Go is an immersive and interactive haunted house that just opened its doors. It’s an artist-made haunted house experience that brings unrealized fears to life. The horrors of the binary are unleashed!
This haunted house is experienced from your car, (B.Y.O.C.), and one ticket covers one vehicle. There is a cafe with food and drinks and a restroom at the starting point at Mint & Scrif. Masks are mandatory when outside of vehicles. Viewers of No Place To Go get to choose which direction their experience will go through the five different locations spread across the 40 West Arts District and Wheat Ridge. There is an app to download prior to arrival, and they recommend coming 15 minutes early of your ticket time.
“This project will offer a critical look into the cultural fear of bodies in oppressive, sociopolitical spaces. Connect audiences to internal landscapes of fear that there is no place to be, no place to go for certain bodies in oppressive, sociopolitical spaces,” says the No Place To Go website.
The installations are each specifically designed as a different realm of choices. Artists include Nolan Tredway, Michaela Mujica-Steiner + Emily Marie Passos Duffy, Moe Gram, Nicole Anona Banowetz, Hayley Krichels, Hayley Dixon + Renee Marino, Chrissy Espinoza + Grace Cooper, and Steven Frost and BAGBAYSHA (Chris BAGley, Koko Bayer, and Thomas Scharfenberg.)
Presented by Redline, 40 West Arts District, and sponsored by Beston Homes Team, No Place To Go sits in-between the traditional territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, Sioux, and Ute Nations.
No Place To Go is inspired by Killjoy’s Kastle: A Lesbian Feminist Haunted House by Allyson Mitchell and Deirdre Logue. The haunted house is a series of manifestations that haunt queer and feminist history. The experience has been showcased in London, Toronto, and Los Angeles.
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No Place To Go was directed by Serena Chopra, Kate Speer, and Frankie Toan. Toan is a fiber sculptor; he uses DIY material for his creations. Chopra is an interdisciplinary artist and has an extensive background in writing, dance, filmmaking, and sound design. Speer is a choreographer, performer, and organizer at Intersection of Art and Social Change.
Right before a detrimental presidential election Chopra, Speer, and Toan use multi dimensional expressions to address “sociopolitical dominant culture.” Chopra, Speer, and Toan highlight the intersection of fear and fun. They believe that queerness has a direct impact on hybridity in today’s culture, and this haunted house will show you how.
