Photographed by Koury Angelo
The Coachella Astronaut is a 36 foot tall, 57 foot long, 40 foot wide mobile installation held aloft by a forklift. It circulates through the assembled crowd at The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Annual Festival like a Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade float, as if it really were an astronaut floating gracefuly through space. As it slowly moves about, images of the festival's artists are projected onto the front of the helmet in a tribute to all of the work they put into the art that make the festival such a cultural gem.
“It’s massive,” says Tyler Hanson, of Poetic Kinetics Inc,, who was responsible for both the Coachella Snail and the Astronaut. “It’s a really fucking cool thing. At night, the helmet and visor turn into a video screen--there’s going to be some interesting content, and there are also going to be Instagram competitions, where kids can get their face put into the helmet. They can be the astronaut for a moment.”
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