Swannatopia | December 6, 2023 – January 2, 2024

Swannatopia returns to our space one year after their last full residency, and we are so thrilled to have them back!

Swannatopia’s Experimental Art club will host their second annual holiday light and sound extravaganza at Lamplight AVL in West Asheville this December. “Time is Fake: a Swan Pond Experience” will bring the people together again, to shimmer and shimmy among sights and sounds from the collective’s many large scale installations staged over the past year. Featuring fresh cake works and fashions by Experimental Art Club, a Sunset Surprise, New Psycho Actives Bug Mall Soundtrack music video premiere, a puppet show live scored by a 9 member orchestra, swan song sound bath, and black light dance party by DJ Madbog.

About Swannatopia:
We, of Swannatopia, are a group of experimental artists headquartered in Swannanoa, NC and residing throughout the Southeastern United States. Over the past decade, we have set out to blur the lines between “artist” and “participant”, to defamiliarize the familiar, to nurture an immersive, whimsical and thoughtful experience of empowerment, and offer a glimpse of what is possible.

We believe artistic collaborations are essential to cultivate a healthy community and to maximize creative potential Our installations and exhibitions are mutually supportive endeavors that help us all- individual, group, and participant observers – to dream bigger, together. To date, our multigenerational list of collaborators totals 50+.

To this end, we launched our “Experimental Art Club” in 2021. An experiment in and of itself, Experimental Art Club aims to facilitate the free exchange of knowledge, experience, tools and materials, while bringing the people together to “make stuff for fun!”.