Dome If You Want to

Wanna, wanna, wanna Fantase?

(Cliff Shapiro)

By Alex De Vore

Creative Santa Fe’s Fantase event last year was absolutely stunning. Dubbed Domefest, artists worked mainly within the medium of video—though other media were utilized—to create gorgeous, almost living pieces projected inside gargantuan domes. It was brilliant and a hard act to top, to say the least. For this year’s event, however, Creative Santa Fe promises even bigger and better results in a broader milieu.

"Collaboration is the backbone of the fest, so we decided to open it up a bit more and asked the applying artists to create unique pieces that offer insights on Santa Fe and New Mexico's expanded identities," Creative Santa Fe's Director of Community Initiatives Katelyn Peer tells SFR. "Fantase Fest is not only an event for everyone, but is a direct representation of our community and the creative talent that makes Santa Fe the City Different."

As opposed to just domes, Fantase will feature pieces from New Mexicans like Project In Motion's Hypatia Skywatchers, a collaborative work that combines aerial dance, sculpture and video to express the shared wonder of the cosmos. The Intimate Relations of Sun & Water, by artist Ryan Riggs, is an interactive tunnel that uses festival participants and light to create breathtaking silhouettes that transform the piece in real time for its observers. There is also the OVF Collective's Santuario—Timelessness and Transformation, a mixed-media explosion of motion graphics, photography and abstract visuals that will be projected onto the Santuario de Guadalupe church.

There are many more artists onboard as well as performances from local indie rock acts GRY GRDNS, Thieves & Gypsys and Scarlett Cortex, as well as Albuquerque's the Lymbs. Plus appearances from the Santa Fe Opera, National Dance Institute of New Mexico, a lowrider car show, a skateboard jam, live graffiti and so much more. Seriously, do you even have to think about it?

Fantase Fest
6 pm-midnight Saturday, June 20
Free. De Vargas Park
Guadalupe and De Vargas streets,
989-9934

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