Art in the Park: TRANS/PORTAL

Saturday, August 17, 2019
6-10 p.m.
Washington Square Park, Pershing & Main

TRANS/PORTAL is a one time, all-ages, interdisciplinary electronic popup exhibition celebrating LGBTQIA+ electronic music artists and the power of interactive media. Merging the magical with the mundane, the technological with the natural, and set against the backdrop of the colorful Kansas City skyline, this tiny popup festival will be truly spectacular. Let yourself pass through the gateway into a fantastic realm of radical self-expression and personal liberation. At sundown, the grounds of the park to life with electronic musicians, DJs, color lighting, projection mapping, live painting, installations, and dance. The music will feature live hardware and DJ sets from artists on the UN/TUCK roster. The visuals will include projection mapping collaborations by UN/TUCK and other queer visual artists in the community. In bringing together artists of various mediums, it creates an immersive display of queer/trans artistic prowess, while building an engaging, public facing and community-minded event.Generously sponsored by Art in the Loop Foundation.