A Celebration Of Slime At The SLOOMOO Institute in River North
It’s a celebration of SLIME with a 20,000 sq. ft. immersive attraction in River North that intersects Contemporary Art + Mental Health.
Originally opened as a pop-up in SoHo and now expanding to permanent sites in Chicago and Atlanta, the space is designed by contemporary artists and renowned architects with multiple interactive installations that flow like a gallery including: a Yayoi Kusama Obliteration Room-inspired Slime Wall, a DIY bar with over 4 million combinations to create your own, composer Pei Pei Chung wrote music for Sloomoo’s ASMR soundscapes, AR and video installations and much more!
What is Sloomoo?
The word Sloomoo came from a funny, viral trend noticed in the slime community in 2017. Slimers captioned their posts with this saying, “replace the vowels of your name with ‘oo’ and that’s your new slime name.”
Slime = “SLOOMOO”
Sloomoo immerses you in a transformative world of touch, sound, scent, and sight. A mix of science and magic, the space is full of compounds from slime to kinetic sand to new innovations that entertain, soothe and surprise, otherworldly CGI videos, kaleidoscopic glow-in-the-dark moments, a 150-foot DIY bar to design your own slime (there are 4,320,000 unique combinations), and more. Every element of the experience was created to awaken your spirit with creative fun.
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