Inter-Section is a feature of the Interference Arts website that provides opportunities for visitors to get quick views into Artistic Director Craig Harris’ work and projects. Inter-Section presents highlights of specific projects with video and audio examples; contextualizes the work; illustrates connections between projects and initiatives; and provides pathways to navigate through the artistic, community development and research projects found on the Interference Arts website.
The August 2024 installment of Inter-Section features the 2024 Twin Cities Legacy Dream Space Exhibition:
Legacy Dream Space comes to the Twin Cities
Interference Arts is excited to announce that Legacy Dream Space is coming to the Twin Cities!
Please join us for an exhibition specially designed for this time.
Date: September 12-25
Location:
Modus Locus Expansion
3338 University Ave SE # 220
Minneapolis, MN 55414
Email: info@legacydreamspace.com
For more information and to make reservations please visit our new Legacy Dream Space website!
An opening reception event with the artists will take place on Thursday September 12, 5:00pm – 8:00pm. We will celebrate the exhibition, and the artists will guide people through the exhibition.
Do you Wonder about the Past?
Do you Dream about the Future?
Are you Curious about how our lives create what follows?
We invite you to join us in Legacy Dream Space – a multi-sensory story space that explores Loss, Hope and Legacy. The story space blends video projection, digital art, theatre, music and soundscapes into a reflective interactive multimedia environment, designed to explore our past and present, and to collaborate with our community to create a legacy for future generations. The story space evolves through community engagement, always capturing new content – sharing what we want to pass on to future generations, and what we wish to leave behind in the dust of the past. In this sense Legacy Dream Space is a living time capsule – a lasting and evolving legacy that supports mutual understanding, healthy communities, and a sustainable future for humanity and the planet.
Following a successful premiere exhibition at the Owatonna Art Center in the fall of 2023, Craig Harris & Candy Kuehn, in collaboration with Kym Longhi & Jim Peitzman, have continued to develop the project to include music and theatrical performances, creative maker events, and special convenings to have facilitated conversations that enrich the experience. This new version takes place at the beautiful Modus Locus Expansion space, and is created in collaboration with The Center for Creativity and Public Health, and Art to Change the World.
The Center for Creativity and Public Health harnesses the transformative power of creativity to build healthier, more resilient communities. In addition to providing substantial support in bringing our vision of Legacy Dream Space to fruition, the Center is bringing their unique abilities to provide significant programming to enrich the experience:
- Creative maker events – workshops conducted to provide opportunities to explore the exhibition themes facilitated by invited artists. One event on 9/21 is “Caring for Ourselves & Our Community,” which will be led by teaching artist Ta-coumba Aiken. More of these maker events will be announced shortly.
- Theatrical performance and video screening of projects developed by The Remember Project, which uses the arts to support the Dementia Friendly Communities movement.
- The Center will also be facilitating conversations as part of the Carry the Mantle performance.
We are grateful to Barbara Bridges and Art to Change the World for supporting Legacy Dream Space going back to the development workshops in the fall of 2022. We continue our collaboration in this 2024 exhibition with a special ACW art exhibit, curated by Sam St. John. Several ACW artists have been invited to share their work, including SAM Greene, Karen Daphne, Briauna Williams, Becca David, Paul Kellett, Lynette Black, Layl McDill, Catherine A. Palmer, Sam St. John and Frances Bates.
Craig Harris will perform Carry the Mantle with cellist Randall Davidson. This piece that explores how personal experiences and cultural stories shape our fight for a better world. Carry the Mantle merges the story about the Prophet Elijah – a champion for justice who appears throughout time – with stories and memories about the challenges and resilience of individuals and communities facing hardship under occupation in Bethehem/West Bank. Carry the Mantle asks how we can find purpose and hope even in difficult times.
Legacy Dream Space visitors of any age are invited to explore this glorious sensory world, and to engage in the unfolding of our shared future. The Modus Locus Expansion space and the exhibition are ADA Accessible.
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The Artistic Team
Craig Harris is a composer, designer, and performer who creates multimedia dramatic stage works, interactive sculptural environments, and creative story spaces. His work has been presented on stages around the world and at several international festivals and conferences. Craig is a recipient of a Right Here Showcase Commission, and grants to support his work from the Hanson Institute for American Music, the McKnight Foundation, the American Composers Forum, Jerome Foundation, and Rimon.
Candy Kuehn creates wearable art, wall pieces, digital illustrations, sculptures, and costumes for dance and movement.
As a painter her mediums range from fabric dyes with paints, IPhone apps to ceramic glazes. Candy’s work has appeared at the Textile Center of Minnesota, Frank Stone Gallery, Owatonna Arts Center, the Phipps Center for the Arts, and the Fine Art Show at the Minnesota State Fair.Her “Health and Healing” exhibit has been presented at hospitals in Hudson, WI, and Owatonna.
Kym Longhi is the Artistic Director of Combustible Company and the writer/director of their work, including: Monster Heart, Bluebeard’s Dollhouse, and Herocycle. Prior to co-founding Combustible Company, she was a core company member and featured performer with Margolis Brown ADAPTORS Company for 12 years.
Other directing projects include SenseAbility (Interference Arts), Donald Giovanni in Cornlandia, and Dr Falstaff and the Working Wives of Lake County (Mixed Precipitation).
Kym has served on faculty in the University of Minnesota’s Department of Theater Arts and Dance since 2001.
Integrating media with live theater, Jim Peitzman’s video design and installation work has been featured in a variety of innovative performance environments, including composer Mary Ellen Childs’ “Dream House,” with acclaimed NYC string quartet Ethel, Interference Arts’ evocative new works “It Is She Who I See” and “SenseAbility,” and several Combustible Company original theater productions.
Jim’s video artistry has been integral to a variety of Margolis Brown Theater Company productions since 1995, including a DigiFest site-specific work at the Roebling Bridge in New
