No Place to Go an artist-made haunted house where unrealized fears manifest in an immersive world driven by choice-making and the horror of the binary. Presented by RedLine in partnership with 40 West Arts and sponsored by Beston Homes Team. This collaborative project is directed by Serena Chopra, Kate Speer, and Frankie Toan, No Place to Go is a pandemic-safe, multi-site car tour that spans the 40 West Arts District and Wheat Ridge, Colorado.
My contribution to No Place to Go is an installation and live performance called Liberace in Purgatory. It is the culmination of seven years of creative research on the persona and aesthetics of American icon Władziu Valentino Liberace. With the help of No Place to Go collaborators and creative technologists in Boulder’s BLDG61 Maker Space, I take viewers to a nightmare of Liberace’s own creation where he confronts the excesses of the celebrity culture he helped create. Watch as a former Vegas headliner is forced to perform the same four-minute act again and again inside an abandoned Dollar Tree Store. (Images by Matthew Pevear)
Feature: Westword, Susan Froyd
“Drive Through Queer Fear in Immersive Show No Place to Go“
Feature: Denverite, Maggie Donahue
“No zombies or jump-scares: This artist-designed haunted house gives you a safe way to process day-to-day fears”
