ENID, OK - Itinerant Immersive is a new company founded by Ben Ezzell, an attorney and artist based in Enid, OK. The goal of Itinerant Immersive is to develop a series of installations built into mobile platforms that can extend the reach of immersive art and maintain commercial viability by moving entire structures intact from city to city, charging a modest admission fee, selling merchandise, and hosting events.
In Spring 2022, Ezzell co-led the creation of “Sugar High”, a temporary immersive installation in downtown Enid with work from 24 artists from across the state of Oklahoma, which saw over 6,000 visitors over its six-week run.
Itinerant Immersive believes that art is valuable and that artists should be fairly compensated for their work. An immersive art installation is interactive and can include artwork in any medium. This work is only possible through collaboration between many different people with myriad skills and experiences. With a diverse team working together on something truly new, Itinerant Immersive is creating exciting immersive art, brought to you.
The theme of the first Itinerant Immersive installation is an abandoned spaceship. Ezzell has purchased and gutted a single-wide manufactured home and is in the process of rebuilding it as a spaceship. The entire structure is about 70’ long and 16’ wide.
The setting of the spaceship is some vague point in the future, but not so far in the future as to be unrecognizable. Humanity occupies habitats across the solar system but does not travel faster than light. Occupants of the spaceship spend most of their time with a consistent up and down, either via thrust gravity or by means of—usually reliable—artificial gravity.
Ezzell is requesting qualifications from artists with experience in space activation through art installation or with artwork that can lean towards immersive installation. They will be accepting 10 to 25 artists with projects both large and small. Budgets will be considered between $500.00 to $12,500.00 USD per project.
This call is intended to solicit submissions from a broad range of artists, not limited to any medium, geographic location, or experience level. Their goal is to create a diverse installation with an emphasis on analog interactivity (physical interaction).
All local, regional, and international artists, artist teams, architects, designers, and multimedia specialists are invited to submit their qualifications. Visit www.itinerantimmersive.com/rfq for more details and to submit your project.
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