200 Acres Immersive Event

200 Acres

a soundwalk through memories of wildness

State College ,   Pennsylvania

Experience hosted by Marike Splint

200 ACRES is an immersive and site-specific soundwalk through the PSU campus and the arboretum about how we shape the nature around us, and how nature shapes us. An invitation to see the extraordinary in the mundane. To experience the soundwalk, you download a custom-built app and bring your own mobile device and headphones. The experience starts in front of the Eisenhower Auditorium. From there, the app will guide you through known and lesser-known paths, shedding a new perspective on familiar places. Your location and movements will conjure the sound and text you are hearing. Layered with disarming metaphors, historical details, and personal musings, 200 ACRES will take you on a personal meditation through the physical, cultural, and geographical landscapes we inhabit.... Show More

Audience Role

Walker. Walker.

Content Advisories

  • App download required

  • Headphones required

  • Smartphone required

  • All ages

Interaction Advisories

  • No physical contact with performers

Mobility Advisories

  • Dress for the outdoors

  • Extended standing

  • Walking

  • Wear comfortable shoes

  • Event is wheelchair accessible.

Tags

Soundwalk

Free

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Marike Splint

Hosting immersive events on EI since July, 2024

Marike Splint is a Dutch French-Tunisian theatre maker based in Los Angeles on Tongva/Kizh land, specializing in creating work in public space that explores the relationship between people, places and identity. She has created performances in sites ranging from a bus driving through the streets of a city, to wide open meadows, taxicabs, train stations, beach piers, arboretums, subways and the virtual map of Google Earth. Presenters and commissioners of her original work include La Jolla Playhouse, Center Theater Group, UCLA Center for the Art of Performance, Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State, Skirball Cultural Center LA, Metro Art and the Los Angeles Exchange Festival (USA); Oerol Festival, Theaterfestival Boulevard, Over het IJ Festival (The Netherlands); Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires (Argentina); Urbane Kuenste Ruhr (Germany); GeoAIR (Tbilisi, Georgia); Anciens Abattoirs de Casablanca (Morocco). She co-edited the book Tbilisi - It’s Complicated, composed of artistic accounts that critically reflect on recent urban and social changes in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi, and curated the 2014 edition of Winters Binnen Festival in Amsterdam, showcasing over 50 performances and concerts in site-specific venues across Amsterdam-Noord. She has been invited as a fellow to the Internationales Forum at the Theatertreffen (Berlin), and to the Rencontres Internationales at the Festival TransAmériques (Montreal). Marike received her BA in philosophy from the University of Amsterdam and an MFA in directing from Columbia University. Among other awards, she is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, a Lincoln City Fellowship, a National Performance Network Creation & Development grant, a Hellman Fellowship and a Columbia University Merit Fellowship. She was nominated as a finalist for the 2019 Center Theater Group Sherwood Award for exceptional contributions to the Los Angeles theatre landscape as innovative and adventurous artist. She serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Theater at UCLA.... Show More