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The Man in the Tuskhut

A Solitary, 20-minute Encounter inside The Nova Tuskhut

Tickets: $45 ($5 off for VPES Members)

**ADVANCE TICKETS REQUIRED***

Thursday, October 22nd - Timeslots 11:30am - 5:00pm

Friday, October 23rd - Timeslots 11:30am - 5:00pm

Saturday, October 24th - Timeslots 11:30am - 5:00pm 

The Man in the Tuskhut welcomes strangers for a 20-minute, solitary encounter with cutting edge technology in the Velaslavasay Panorama’s famed exhibit, The Nova Tuskhut.

During your visit you will receive souvenir postcards, enjoy a short documentary on the mysterious man and explore the Velaslavasay Panorama's exhibits, including: Shengjing Panorama, the Gardens of the Illustrious Pacific Rim and the VP's latest installation - Frontier Saloon, a Pre-Prohibition-Era boomtown “public house” symbolic of frontier towns of the imaginary Old West, Far North, Far South and Far East. 

Tickets for this event are not refundable nor exchangable.

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...along the very skirmish line of civilization where the turning of a spade has oftentimes led to the discovery of a fortune…in that terrible Wonderland of the North…no pictures we have seen, no descriptions we have read or heard, compare with reality.

The Man in the Tuskhut is an experimental immersive experience co-created by the Velaslavasay Panorama, Immersive Research Media Associates IRMA 360 (Sara Velas & Ruby Carlson) and Incident, a secretive new experiential entertainment company from Jason Woliner (Paul T. Goldman) and Eric Notarnicola (The Rehearsal). Supported in part by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Velaslavasay Panorama Enthusiast Society. This program was funded in part by the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and the Velaslavasay Panorama Enthusiast Society.

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Florence in Ruin—or—The Great Escape
Doors open: 7:30pm
Slide Show by Sara Velas and Ruby Carlson w/Introduction by Norman Klein & Margo Bistis: 8:00pm
Garden Reception: 8:30 - 9:30pm

Tickets $18 (Free for VPES Members with advanced RSVP to vpes@panoramaonview.org)

Archivists Sara Velas and Ruby Carlson will present a 20 min. experimental slideshow Florence in Ruin—or—The Great Escape for the opening of the installation Florence in Ruin: An Excavation by Sara Velas, on view at the Velaslavasay Panorama November 13th thru December 19th, 2026.

Originally presented at the 2024 Magic Lantern Conference aboard the Queen Mary, the former Cunard ocean liner, Florence in Ruin—or—The Great Escape is an experimental dual-projection slide lecture combining 35mm and magic lantern slides. The work interrogates the development of modern academic conceptions of visual beauty, geolocating art and beauty within the circulation of images and value through the port complex. Drawing on cinematic references ranging from Patrick Keiller’s Robinson in Space (1997) and Reveries: Going Deeper (2020) to David Zucker’s The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988), among others, the lecture offers a playful invocation of Rimbaud’s “systematic derangement of the senses.”

This event is the inaugural iteration of the series The Archival Phantasist, made in collaboration with Velaslavasay Panorama curators/artists Sara Velas and Ruby Carlson and curators/writers Norman Klein and Margo Bistis, who will introduce the performance and lead an informal discussion in the garden to follow. 

Florence in Ruin: An Excavation

On View November 13, 2026 - December 19, 2026

An installation that organizes and displays a psychic fixation on the Alameda Corridor and the Port of Long Beach as a terminal for corruption, paranoia, petroleum industries, and the transmission of art history. 

Florence in Ruin: An Excavation is a part of the 2026 Hyper SoCal initiative, which brings awareness to nonprofit and municipal art venues supporting working artists in Southern California. The exhibition is made possible in part by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Velaslavasay Panorama Enthusiast Society.