Drone shot of the projection mapping on Fair Park's Tower Building as site location number 4 during "In Spite of History Part 1". The spoken word piece was played over speakers as patrons walked up and entered the building, and later when leaving. The spoken word, hand drawn visuals, and projection mapping through the use of 3 projectors uplifted  the visuals recontextualized the exterior relief mural that depicts the colonization of the native people of Texas.

*In order for this site location to be seen from neighboring highways and communities, Artstillery choregraphed the shut down of stadium lights around the Cotton Bowl.

"In Spite of History Part 1" took place at Fair Park over 9 site locations. This is location 9 - the final scene of the performance. Audiences members were transported by golf carts between site locations with live narration patched through a bluetooth speaker with preloaded call and responses. As audiences travered the park to each site location, a new event with the narrative would occur. This final moment took place inside the water fountain to represent and hold space for all attendees to enter the water together. The main symbolism was a representation of how people of color were not allowed to swim in the pool, once located at Fair Park.

This was a  beautiful moment of catharsis for the characters and the audience. At the end the audience members were encouraged to take off their shoes and join the cast in cooling off from the Texas summer heat.

Expanding our techniques of 360 video we captured the entire two sold evenings at the immersive experience we installed at the Dallas Museum of Art. The interaction of 360 video  helps transport the viewer into the  immersive work as experienced by the audience.

This technique of a roaming  wide angle gimble camera is an excellent way to capture our immersive experiences  in a documentary style. 

Experimental 360 video that helps transfer the interactive nature of our immersive works.  In this scene; the deeper in the past the characters go, the more they reveal about their uncertain present.

A scene from the immersive experience "Family Dollar", where the audience is meant to  be in the middle of the action.  This production contained 600+ sound and lighting cues and adjustments were made each evening for weather conditions.

INFORMATIONAL

Video from 2022 explaining our process of creating site specific immersive works. 2024 Update - Artstillery has partnered with the University of Texas at Arlington Special Collections to open source store our interviews and documentaries.

Movement Therapist Concetta Troskie walks us through exploring personal narratives using movement, and writing. A meeting captured in the early days of production on Generations Of Adam.

Soon after the end of  "Family Dollar", the shotgun houses built from the remains of an actual "shotgun house" in West Dallas became an interactive venue and a Nasher Sculpture Center PUBLIC WORK. QR Codes were developed which linked youtube viewers to 360 videos of moments from the immerse experience  that took place in the same spot. 

DOCUMENTARY

Community activist Paula Hutchison shares the history of West Main Street in West Dallas. Documenting our engagement within a community and stories.

Executive Director, Ilknur Ozgur,  interviews Teddy, a West Dallas native on his journey growing up on South Main Street. Teddy became a partner and contracted team member in building the repurposed shotgun homes for the "Family Dollar" immersive experience.

Actress Liala shares her story being muslim after 9/11 and how "Dirty Turk" was an opportunity for catharsis for her and the audience.

PROMOTIONAL

Promotional video for our "talk backs" event with the community. These events help bring in community experts and conversation on our writing and script development before a show opens.

Promotional video moving our variety show online during the pandemic. This was the first online platform created in Dallas of a production relocated to the virtual world. Artstillery tracked over 2,500 views and 200+ comments during it's air time.

Inspired by the stories of our piece  "Dirty Turk" the backpack puppets used for the 2019 and 2022 Dallas Museum of Art full immersive experiences, were brought out for Johnny Rutledge to create a new video work utilizing a 1946 educational film on immigration and the USA.