Radiohead Spectacle in Brooklyn Teems with World-Building Paintings, Sculpture, and Film
Radiohead is presenting Motion Picture House KID A MNESIA, a multimedia installation and screening experience at the Brooklyn Navy Yard running through June 28, with multiple timed showings per day through May 31 and tickets priced at $72. The exhibition includes artworks tied to the albums Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001), shown in a darkened space without labels, alongside iconography such as the “Modified Bear” and “Crying Minotaur,” a video array of old TVs and VCRs, and a 25-foot-tall “Stickman” sculpture. The centerpiece is an hour-plus film/video work preceded by a 30-minute countdown on four large screens, beginning with a 3D-like passage through black-and-white woods set to “Everything in Its Right Place.” The ARTnews review describes the experience as immersive and surreal, with video-game-like aesthetics and an appraisal likely to depend on viewers’ familiarity with Radiohead’s imagery and music.
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