Craft World will host the grand opening of The 9 Goddesses Adventure, a three-region immersive installation by artist Kisma Reidling, at 1 p.m. Pacific time on Friday — 22:00 Central European time — event organizers said in an announcement today.
Visitors will gather at the Oracle Lounge region on Craft World, where they will board the Plan-9 Needleship for the passage to the land of the nine goddesses. The Needleship was created by builder Exy Atreides, known for detailed 3D immersive builds and architectural simulations.
Hypergrid address: craft-world.org:8002:Oracle Lounge
Before entering the installation, visitors will climb a build called The Giant Beanstalk and take places high above the world.
A prologue in two languages
There, Reiner Schneeberger will present Awaiting the Waking Sisters, a narrative prologue written for the opening. The piece will be performed first in Italian and then in English.
Schneeberger, who is known as Art Blue in-world, is a longtime OpenSim performance artist who has staged immersive plays on Craft World, Metropolis, and the OpenSimulator Community Conference grid.
“Awaiting the Waking Sisters tells of forgotten ladders once believed to lead towards the True Humans, of failing servers and extinguished signals, and of nine sisters who have not yet awakened,” the announcement said. “The performance prepares visitors for the moment when Kisma Reidling welcomes them, and they place their feet, for the first time, upon the land of the Nine Goddesses.”
The installation spans three standard OpenSim regions — Dusk, Midday, and Dawn — and combines landscape, architecture, storytelling, and virtual performance. Each of the nine goddesses will speak directly to visitors in the voice of Reidling, the artist behind the installation.
“It is not simply an exhibition to be viewed, but a world to be entered, heard, and explored,” said the announcement.
Reidling is an artist, author, and creative guide, and the founder of Visionary Artist Path, a creative community for women. Her work brings together painting, art journaling, storytelling, spirituality, community, and creative uses of artificial intelligence.
Reidling, who is known in-world as Juliette Surreal-D, has previously hosted Hypergrid Hoppers tours on Craft World and presented at the OpenSimulator Community Conference.
The experience is part of Museo del Metaverso, which Rosanna Galvani founded in Second Life in 2007 and expanded to Craft World in 2010, according to the museum’s website.
The nine goddesses will also be offered as collectors’ items to raise money for the grid through CYB Mint, which issues Craft World’s in-world currency.
Craft World launched the currency in December, with 100 units valued at one euro. The grid is run by Raffaele Macis, who is known in-world as Licu Rau.