Wake The Tiger, Bristol’s “amazement park” and immersive art experience, has set the opening date of its new expansion for 2 February 2024.
Wake The Tiger is adding a whole new level of rooms and installations. Via a press release, the expansion is well underway.
Created by the artistic team behind the Boomtown music festival, Wake The Tiger launched in 2022. It includes 27 environments, from underwater worlds, mechanical chambers and hidden passageways to forests, temples and ice caves.
Guests enter the world of ‘Meridia’ through a portal. Here, they find an abandoned factory that previously housed a mysterious community of adventurers.
The psychedelic space showcases works by more than 100 artists, poets, scenic artists, robotics experts, fabricators, costume makers, architects, videographers and prop makers.
Luke Mitchell, creative director at Wake The Tiger, said: “The new expansion will be a beautiful journey of self-discovery and joy, challenging you to look beyond your own limits and explore alternative ways of thinking, living and thriving.
“It is possible to slide back to the Dream Factory, but how this is done is down to the journey your mind chooses to take. Can the alternate world of Meridia finally be saved?”
Graham MacVoy, Wake The Tiger’s managing director and co-founder, previously told blooloop: “We’re now open, but the experience will never be finished.
Wake The Tiger always evolving
“It’s got to keep evolving. There are tonnes of bits we’re excited about adding. A lot of it will be narrative-based.”
Elsewhere, Tokyo’s teamLab Borderless has unveiled three new installations before reopening in its new home at Azabudai Hills in February 2024.
Created by the teamLab art collective, teamLab Borderless is home to digital artworks without boundaries that move out of rooms and influence each other.
More than 250,000 people have visited Wake The Tiger since it opened last year.
Images courtesy of Wake The Tiger
