It’s Friday night at Area15. We step gingerly past artist Tyler Fuqua’s giant robot Mechan 9, who’s sprawled out near the front door. We walk through the hallway of a starship. We slip beneath the gaze of Shogyo Mujo, the giant glowing skull, and emerge in Area15’s main hall—called the “Spine”—with possibilities bordering on the unlimited. We could vanish into a parallel dimension inside a supermarket. We could shimmy through a laser maze. We could make footprints on the moon.
Since opening its doors in September 2020, Area15 hasn’t stopped adding strange corners and unexpected destinations. The sprawling entertainment, dining and nightlife complex now boasts an axe-throwing bar, a virtual- and augmented-reality “lab,” a two-story arcade, a bar that soars into the air and whatever Wink World is.
