What is the HAUNTED HEARSE?
The Haunted Hearse is a complete production art car featuring dynamic lighting design, textile-based scenic design, a cast of spooky monsters and a groovy theme song, PLUS a souvenir shop of cool homemade items!
This miniature marvel aims to present the spirit and childlike love of Halloween, but without the flashing lights, smoke, loud sounds, and jump scares.
The 45ft long, 2-story K'nex slow-coaster takes 2 minutes to ride! Let your cell phones enjoy an eerie, sensory experience of fiber art and technology 🎃
Safe for kids, families, and adults of all ages.
a fully immersive horror adventure ride for cellphones. This mixed media spectacle seamlessly combines craft, fiber arts, analog/virtual technologies, and live performance to deliver a spooky art experience like no other - Let your phone enter, if you dare!
Haunted Hearse Season: Sept 30 - Nov 16, 2023
Upcoming Dates:
Sun Oct 1, 7pm-midnight - Frenchmen Art Bazaar. 619 Frenchmen St, New Orleans.
Fri Oct 6, 7pm-11 - Art Battle. Zony Mash Beer Project, New Orleans
Sat Oct 7, 6pm-9pm - Art for Arts Sake. Warehouse @ CAC (Contemporary Arts Center), New Orleans.
Sun Oct 8, 7-11pm - Emporiumania. Emporium, New Orleans.
Thu Oct 12, 6-9pm - Save Our Cemeteries Fundraiser @ the Broadside, New Orleans.
Fri Oct 13, 6-9pm - Bass Ghost Shop, a Haunted Bass Pro Shop Group Exhibition. Yes We Cannibal, Baton Rouge.
Sat Oct 14, 6-9pm - 2nd Saturday Art Walk @ People’s Plaza for Public Art (the neutral ground of St Claude & Mazant), New Orleans.
Wed Oct 18, 8-midnight - Wicked Wednesday Night Market @ Siberia, New Orleans.
Thu Oct 19, 7-midnight - Frenchmen Art Bazaar. 619 Frenchmen St, New Orleans.
Mon Oct 23, 7-midnight - Frenchmen Art Bazaar. 619 Frenchmen St, New Orleans.
Thu Oct 26, 7-midnight - Frenchmen Art Bazaar. 619 Frenchmen St, New Orleans.
Sat Oct 28 - Monster Truck fundraiser
Sun Oct 29, 4pm-10pm - Aquarium Gallery FundRAZOR, Aquarium Gallery, New Orleans.
Mon Oct 30, 7-midnight - Frenchmen Art Bazaar. 619 Frenchmen St, New Orleans.
Tue Oct 31 - Clouet Gardens Halloween Block Party 5-9pm
Nov 1 & Nov 2 - In reverence and respect, the Haunted Hearse team spends these days in quiet reflection for the spirits, saints, ancestors, and deities who have smiled on us with safety and success this year. Thank you.
Nov 4 - 1st Saturday Art Walk on Julia St. @ Le Mieux Galleries
Nov 11 - 2nd Saturday Art Walk on St Claude @ Antenna Gallery
Nov 16 - Hearse Gang Calendar Release Party @ Siberia (LAST CALL & season closing)
Check Instagram @Jane_Tardo for most up-to-date information.- click here!-
Press:
The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate - Doug MacCash - Give your iPhone a high-tech Halloween roller coaster ride in a hearse - Review, 2023
Happy Horror Harvest Show - The Haunted Hearse with Jane Tardo - Interview, 2023
Washington Post- Emily Kask and Hamza Shaban- These New Orleans-based artists breathe new life into hearses - Article
Antigravity Magazine - Hayden Legg - Along for the Ride with Jane Tardo- Interview
WWLTV - Eleanor Tabone - New Orleans turns spooky for Halloween - Article/Video
Spooky Season ‘23 - NOW BOOKING
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Haunted Hearse Season 1
When fiber artist Jane Tardo explores Halloween, they don’t conjure images of chainsaw massacres and aggressive, physical fear invoking horror. Their spooky, delightful, and surreal experience surprises audiences on first look, but induces supernatural, psychological chills on closer inspection.
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This immersive, role reversal, rollercoaster ride for cell phones is a haunted house attraction like no other…
Built inside of a retired and “haunted for the spooky season” 1992 Cadillac hearse, this 3 minute, 2-story, 45 foot Knex rollercoaster has been modified to ferry cell phones through an eerie sensory experience of art and technology.
Musical composition provided by Morgan Orion and the Cosmic Zombies tells the story of ecological collapse, and the chilling hellscape of our future. The point of view POV is taken out of your hands, and your cellphone (in video mode) gets to go for a ride of terror. Luring you into the magic are 2 selfie stations where the POV leaves the hearse and allows spectators to scare the phone as it passes by, becoming ghoulish monsters in the video!
Is your phone brave enough to ride? Come find out…
Tardo’s “The Haunted Hearse Rollercoaster Ride” can be seen lurking the streets of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast at your favorite bars, shows, festivals, art markets, and art galleries.
No flashing lights, smoke, or jump scares. Safe for kids and families!!!
