Suwannee Hulaween has just unveiled an enchanting teaser video for its brand-new OFF LIMITS Stage, a collaboration with the women-owned and led event company DEFINE EVERYTHING FUTURE (DEF), which will make its debut later this month as part of the festival’s renowned immersive art area Spirit Lake.
Designed to be an intimate fan experience, OFF LIMITS will offer a cutting-edge, immersive 360-degree stage nestled within the mystic festival grounds. It will also bring Hulaween attendees closer to their favorite underground artists than ever before, featuring a medley of the most in-demand acts across house, techno, drum and bass, UKG, and bass. The innovative stage experience will complement its underground music programming with pyro effects from Incendia and a Funktion-One sound system.
In true Spirit Lake fashion, the new OFF LIMITS stage has been designed and built by Duende, whose Birdhouse Village at Spirit Lake has been a mainstay for five iterations. The mysterious gothic temple-inspired structure will feature dark designs and stained glass windows merging with DEF’s signature 360-degree concept and event production style. The teaser video sets the tone for the debut of the new stage positioning OFF LIMITS “for those who are lost, but not ready to be found - all are welcome, even the misfits.”
Hulaween’s inaugural OFF LIMITS Stage lineup will feature artists such as Azzecca, Ian Asher, Will Clarke, GUDFELLA, Bou, Taiki Nulight, AYYBO, Eazybaked, CHROMEBODIES, Riordian, Justin Jay b2b Nala, and more.
Hulaween’s coveted Spirit Lake is heralded as one of the leading immersive art experiences across North American festivals, brimming with talented sculptors, fire/metal workers, painters, thespians, digital artists, and lighting designers. Attendees can revel in lakefront projection experience by Justin Bolognino, hypnotizing light shows, interactive installations with both visual and performance art, and catch performances at Spirit Lake’s multiple stages.
This year, Hulaween will feature over 40 different art offerings, including never-before-seen pieces and returning classics at Spirit Lake encompassing the thematic concept “ESCAPED!” Attendees will enter an enchanting experience with an array of creatures in the form of various art installations that have “escaped” from the depths of the lake.
Several Spirit Lake classics will be returning for Hulaween’s 2024 edition, including Ian Tuma’s House of Lost, Duende’s Birdhouse Village, Ania Amador’s Mural Maze, Ashley Spereo’s Spereo Art, Kyle Smith’s Regenerate, Essi Rhodes & Rubin Robles’ Chatterpillars, Dan Shields’ The Spider with a new webbed display called Arachnophobia, and the highly-anticipated daily projection mapping from professionals Jasper & Shelby Mosher.
New installations joining this year’s Spirit Lake programming include playful aquatic world, Escaped the Void, by the artist ER & Johnny Crash, an array of paintings titled Shifting Views by artist Steven Teller, a vibrant celestial flora Bloom of Pleiades by Tessa Register, The Well - a magical well filled with TV displays by Save The TV’s, a large-scale fire installation called Ciprian The Great by Charlie BlackCat Smith, Escaped Performance Deck by Leelanau Plant Co x Zen Garden, a healing Tea Sanctuary by Wandering Lion, the mind-bending Magic Mirror by Sporeganic, and stunning new lake screen show visuals with content by Lightbrush x MicrodoseVR, Oelhan, Mind Balloon, SCARLETMOTIFF, Polyhop, Seeing Into The Unknown, Jonas Pfeiffer, Julius Horsthuis and Davy Evans.
At the helm of this new era for Spirit Lake is second-year Creative Director Justin Bolognino who is the CEO and co-founder of META. The company creates live, multi-sensory experiences that use technology, design, and storytelling to ignite the human senses and spirit. Bolognino's previous work consists of designing immersive artistic experiences in collaboration with artists such as Skrillex, Phish, Questlove, Porter Robinson, Tiësto, and many more. In addition to working with musical acts, META also has various brand clients such as Google, Spotify, Samsung, Vimeo, and more.
The ever-evolving art experience at Spirit Lake has grown over the past decade to become a vibrant, experimental petri dish for up-and-coming experiential artists to test their new works and hone their craft. With the addition of the OFF LIMITS stage for the 2024 edition, Spirit Lake will remain a vital part of Hulaween’s identity that keeps fans mesmerized year after year.
Hulaween’s full lineup is a star-studded blend of electronic, jam, indie, bluegrass, funk, soul, and hip-hop, featuring the world debut of The Bobby Weir Incident (Bobby Weir + The String Cheese Incident), and additional headliners such as Black Pumas, Chris Lake, Chase & Status, CloZee, Greensky Bluegrass, Killer Mike, Liquid Stranger, Nora En Pure, Of The Trees, Sublime, Tipper, Tash Sultana, The String Cheese Incident, and Umphrey's McGee.
Limited single-day tickets and full weekend passes are still available, fans can purchase tickets while supplies last via https://suwanneehulaween.com/passes/
