Opening Weekend Festival for Strandbeest: The Dream Machines of Theo Jansen

When:
Thursday, Sep 17, 2015 6:00p -
Sunday, Sep 20, 2015 1:00p

Where:
Peabody Essex Museum
161 Essex St
Salem, MA 01970

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Admission:
$10-18

Categories:
Art, Date Idea

Event website:
http://pem.org/sites/strandbeest/happenings/

Explore life with a beest or two during our opening schedule of Strandbeest-related events in September.


PARTY WITH THE BEEST


PEM/PM: Release the Beest
Thursday, September 17
6–11 pm; Special extended hours!
Free for members and Salem residents; $10 for nonmembers


Enjoy a sneak peek of the Strandbeests at PEM and explore ideas through action, motion, demonstration and participation.


Please note: We anticipate a crowd and you might experience a wait to get into the Strandbeest exhibition gallery.


DREAM WITH THE BEEST


Pajama Sleepover
Friday, September 18–Saturday, September 19
7 pm–8 am


Grab your sleeping bag and your favorite pj's to spend the night with the Strandbeests. Join us for a bedtime story with Theo Jansen, art making with guest artist Kyle Browne and staff from Einstein's Workshop, and more.


Register online.


CELEBRATE THE BEEST


Opening Weekend Festival: Creative Adaptations
Saturday, September 19
10 am–4 pm
Included with museum admission


Build a beest of your own to live in one of three habitats designed at PEM. Find inspiration in live critters and work with guest artists, scientists and engineering advisors from Einstein's Workshop to make your beest thrive and adapt to different environments.


ALL-NIGHT HACK-A-THON


Opening Weekend Festival: Creative Adaptations
Saturday, September 19–Sunday, September 20
1 pm–1 pm


Join us for this high-energy, collaborative event that brings together a diverse group of tech-savvy folks to solve a Strandbeest challenge created by Strandbeest artist/mastermind Theo Jansen. We have room for eight teams total, four to six people per team. The first eight teams to register and submit payment ($50 per team) will participate in the Hackathon. Registration ends Monday, September 14. For information, contact [email protected].


Programs are subject to change.


About the exhibition:


PEM presents the first major American exhibition of Theo Jansen's famed kinetic sculptures. Dynamic and interdisciplinary, Jansen's Strandbeests ("beach animals") blur the lines between art and science, sculpture and performance. The exhibition celebrates the thrill of the Strandbeests' unique locomotion as well as the processes that have driven their evolutionary development on the Dutch seacoast. The kinetic sculptures are accompanied by artist sketches, facilitated demonstrations of the creatures' complex ambulatory systems, a hall of "fossils" as well as photography by Lena Herzog.

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