Hendrick’s Chambers of the Curious promises a distinctly unconventional homage to the inherent inquisitiveness of the human mind, offering those who pass through its portals a series of eye-opening experiences designed to stimulate new and curious ways of looking at the world.
This uniquely immersive experience comes to Dublin for four nights only at the end of November, when the revamped interior of a former tenement building in Henrietta Street becomes home to Hendrick’s Chambers of the Curious.
With a central bar area and four areas of focus for smaller groups, participants are invited to engage in specific, individualistic experiences, each designed to stimulate a different area of curiosity.
Prepare yourself for a gloriously upper-clandial experience of the first order as you leave the beige mundanity of the everyday behind. Emerge from the experience reinvigorated and more open to seeking out and reveling in the more unusual elements in the humdrum world around you.
The organisers, in keeping with their reputation ‘as purveyors of the most unusual’, have remained characteristically tight-lipped about the exact details of the Dublin event. They are however quietly confident that the overall experience will surprise, delight, shock and even disturb just a little, ultimately resulting in an evening not to be missed.
Chambers of the Curious takes place in Henrietta Street from Thursday 25th to Saturday 28th November. There will be two sessions per night lasting two hours each (5.30pm – 7.30pm & 8.00pm – 10.00pm). Tickets: €15. Tickets go on sale at 9am on Friday 6th November. For further details see http://chambersofthecurious.ie and follow the hashtag #CuriousHendricks on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
We recently had an opportunity to preview Chambers of the Curious in Brussels. Read about our experience here
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Each chamber involves an immersive experience informed by varying degrees of science, pseudo-science and theatre, all delightfully designed to pique the curiosity of the human mind.
Based on the application of authentic research carried out by a number of inventors, one such experience focuses on the Parietal lobe, the part of the brain that figures out the messages received from the senses of touch, smell, hearing and taste, telling you what is part of the body and what is part of the outside world.
Entitled ‘Tasting in a Dream’ this ‘treatment’ lasts approximately eight minutes and takes place in a dark, bare room. The participant is invited to don a headpiece and while ‘under treatment’ enters a dream-like state triggered by the observation of a series of unfathomable visuals.
Another, the Ocular Cocktail Creator, centres on the Occipital Lobe, the part of the brain that receives messages from the eyes. It controls eye movements and also allows you to recognize shapes and colours, helping you to tell the difference between a square and a triangle. This treatment uses eye tracking technology to enable the participant to review a series of flashing images on a screen. Depending on which images the user has been attracted to the most, they are then given the definition of their personality type based on picture analysis.
Each experience is individually tailored to help stimulate refreshingly new and peculiar ways of looking at the world. For more see http://chambersofthecurious.ie
