Wanderlust Projects Information

At Wanderlust, most of the experiences we create can only be shared with a small group of people. We've produced a one-time illicit retreat for six couples in an abandoned honeymoon hotel, and a speakeasy in a water tower that hosted a few hundred guests over seven weeks. Our primary focus is creating that live experience. But we also spend a lot of time thinking about how to document our work for people who will never take part in a live event. "The little old lady in Japan" is our shorthand for imagining someone far removed from our live events in New York. How can we give her a sense of what we do? What will she appreciate? We're currently in residence at Atlas Obscura, a site that is putting together "compendium of the world's wonders," and this is a question that's also crucial for them. How do you present places when you're not in them? How do you convey the feeling of an exciting and unexpected event? We asked journalist Annie Correal and activist and media scholar Stephen Duncombe to discuss their approaches to conveying live events to a secondary audience. How do you cater to this audience, and what should you expect from them?