Introducing: The Solarplex Theatre

Featuring "The Sunset"

The Solarplex Theatre is an open-air theatre that features the spectacle of the daily sunset. Built at a strategic vantage point, it will offer audiences a unique way to experience the sunset as a theatrical event. Amphitheatre seating and a suspended frame suggesting the presence of a film screen will direct the audience's focus towards the horizon. Each new presentation will be timed to last for about 90 minutes, the standard length for a feature film. Audience members will be asked to observe silence during the entire duration of the mock screening. An usher presenting a sign marked with "The Sunset" will indicate the beginning. After the sun's complete setting, the same usher will present a lit sign marked with "The End."

Conceived as a public art project by Filip Noterdaeme, the Solarplex Theatre is in the process of being realized by Hearth, an emerging artist commune in Upstate New York and is scheduled to open on Labor Day weekend 2008.