See/Saw | An Immersive Magic Experience in Greenpoint

Art in itself is a practice. Whatever craft we have chosen is a lifelong commitment to trying, learning, failing, and trying again. Painters are not questioned when a stroke seems out of place. Musicians are forgiven when they miss a beat. Writers are appreciated even when they overuse run-on sentences, as they string together similar ideas with different words with the excuse of creating a rhythm, when they’re tempted to stretch their poetic license even when it doesn’t make sense.

But magicians? Magicians lose their craft if they make one wrong move. If a trick isn’t performed flawlessly, it’s not magic.

Which is why there is a need for smoke and mirrors. A stage. A cape. Rabbits in and then out of hats. The performance distracts from while also adding to the illusion and helps protect the magician and the audience from seeing even the tiniest hiccup.

So what happens when the smoke fades, when the stage drops, when the cape is gone and the rabbits scatter and it’s simply a magician sitting around a 20-person table with bright lights illuminating him while he performs sleight-of-hand card tricks with absolutely nothing up his rolled-up sleeves?

Now that’s magic.

And it’s happening now at Atlas Obscura’s See/Saw, an immersive experience that takes you into the mind of magician Siegfried Tieber. The See/Saw experience dares you to not believe your eyes as Tieber relies on nothing else but his own hands and your imagination to make the impossible happen in this intimate little space on Franklin St. Tieber himself is an energetic, charming, and innately believable guy; his Ecuadorian accent coupled with his Austrian and Colombian roots makes him uniquely positioned to engage with audiences of any background. But, most importantly, those willing to believe in otherworldly illusions are his best guests. And trust me, you will believe it.

The event runs only through Sunday Sept. 9th and you don’t want to miss it. Tickets, $75 include champagne and the unfathomable experience of being up close and personal with a world-renowned magician. Reserve a spot here and believe in magic again.