"Pull back the rickety door inside Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and you'll reveal a tunnel of fast-spinning motorized moths and bats. Turn a few corners to find a classic bedsheet ghost - at first it's unclear whether it's an actor or a sculpture. A few more corners and you might find a curious red-eyed, ghillie-suited woodland creature - a costumed scare actor that is definitely not a sculpture."
"Last year, studio artist and photographer Aaron Wojack turned the service alley and garages of his Mission District apartment building into " The Corridor of Horror," making heavy use of cardboard, papier-mache and colorful light fixtures. He had some experience building a haunted house in Minneapolis years ago, and enlisted friends to build an artful "pilot" project in San Francisco. Thus, the Bat Witch Ghost collective was born."
"For this year's iteration at Yerba Buena, Wojack and his partner Anna Sapozhnikova designed a maze subdivided in four, and assigned teams of artists to each section, resulting in distinct aesthetics that can be seen as extensions of their creators' practices. It's more or less a haunted house artist-in-residence program. Those seven core artists enlisted the help of friends, and in September, BWG began to host volunteer nights."
Bat Witch Ghost's The Haunt is an immersive haunted maze at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts through Nov. 1. The experience includes fast-spinning motorized moths and bats, life-size art pieces, drawings, video installations, bedsheet ghosts, ghillie-suited scare actors, and a bloody jester named Sam. Visitors can walk through multiple times as scares and artworks intermingle and performers chase guests through the labyrinth. Artist Aaron Wojack began the project by converting a Mission District alley and garages into The Corridor of Horror using cardboard and papier-mâché. Wojack and Anna Sapozhnikova designed a four-part maze and enlisted seven core artists and over 100 volunteers.
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