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If you’ve ever wanted to visit the world inside a Gorillaz album, you have five days left to try: House of Kong, an immersive exhibition celebrating 25 years of the virtual band, is open at the Brooklyn Navy Yard through Monday, September 28.
The show explores the music, artwork and elaborate fictional lives of Gorillaz members 2D, Murdoc, Noodle and Russel Hobbs. Created in collaboration with Damon Albarn, artist Jamie Hewlett and creative director Stephen Gallagher, it turns the band’s visuals and storytelling into an experience you can walk through. Brooklyn is its third stop, following runs in London and Los Angeles.
For the uninitiated, Gorillaz are a band with an unusual personnel arrangement: Albarn makes the music, Hewlett helped create the animated characters and the four cartoon members have spent a quarter-century accumulating a substantial backstory that could keep a dedicated fan busy for weeks. House of Kong offers a way into that universe, with projections and music taking the characters off your screen and into a building.
You’ll find it in the Agger Fish Building at 299 Sands Street. Enter the Brooklyn Navy Yard through the Sands Street gate, then allow about seven minutes to walk to the exhibition. The experience is open daily from 10am to 10pm. Tickets start at $50 and must be purchased online; they aren’t sold at the door.
One catch for anyone hoping to document every second: photos and videos aren’t allowed inside. Phone cameras are covered before entry, so your camera roll will have to make do with whatever you find afterward in the House of Kong Gift Shop. It stocks Gorillaz merchandise, including collectibles, posters, totes and vinyl, with items available only at the exhibition.
The Brooklyn run ends September 28, one day before Gorillaz play Madison Square Garden.