Welcome to Reno, Nevada home of... NadaDada Motel where once a year the motel invites artists to 'get a room and make a show'. For $150 dollars a week, NadaDada invites artists to rent a room and create it into whatever they can dream up. Each room is transformed into an art gallery and show space. Visitors come all week long for special events and to see just what artists have in store for them this year. The show ran for a week, with their 3rd annual event ending the 21st, paying homage to Reno’s unsung motel heritage. It celebrates the spirit of establishments like the Ho-Hum, the Hi-Ho, the 777 and the Sandman.If you were lucky enough to see this scene you may have encountered room 218, where one performance artist, designed a room filled with an enormous dress, made of 150 yards of flowing white fabric, that her fiancé, stapled to the room’s baseboards. Covered in white makeup and draped in the sprawling garment, she stood in the room, unable to move since her dress was fixed to the walls. She said her work, “Sugar Room,” was meant to be a metaphor for prostitution and trapped women.
Or maybe you would have entered other rooms to witness statements on Global Warming, Bees and Bibles, or many other interesting subjects being displayed and defined in their own unique fashions.
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