Art Shanty Projects take residency on frozen lake in Minnesota

(18 Jan 2025)
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Minneapolis - 18 January 2025
1. Various people interacting with art shanties
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Erin Lavelle, Art Shanty Projects Artistic Director:
“We are standing on a 16-inch-thick floating sheet of ice on Bde Unma, otherwise known as Lake Harriet in Minneapolis, Minnesota."
3. People skating on lake
4. Various people interacting with loom in art shanty
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Erin Lavelle, Art Shanty Projects Artistic Director:
“It started in 2004. Two artists had observed ice fishing culture on frozen lakes in Minnesota, and they found out that there are no building codes on the lake. You can make whatever you want.”
6. Exterior Hot Boc Disco Inferno art shanty
7. People dancing in art shanty
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Nick Knutson, Artist:
“This is called the Hot Box Disco Inferno. And it is essentially a flaming dumpster in the middle of the lake. But we need to get a little closer. We find that it's actually a nightclub on the inside.”
9. Various people dancing in art shanty
10. Exterior Hot Boc Disco Inferno art shanty
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Nick Knutson, Artist:
“Kind of a symbol for what people have been feeling about the world and the last few years. I think it's, kind of a tongue in cheek look at that. But when you go inside, you know that it's a party. And really, what you can do in a positive way is to just dance through this kind of dumpster fire.”
12. Various researcher showing plankton caught in net from under ice UPSOUND (English):
“We’re going to capture a bunch of plankton in this net. And that plankton is going to get washed all the way down to the bottom here.”
“So that's our plankton. There's a ton down there below the ice.”
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Ted Ozersky, University of Minnesota Duluth:
“Our project is called the Black Box of Winter. And, we're here to try and show, and, let people hear what's happening under the ice of lakes.”
14. People looking at ice under art shanty
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Ted Ozersky, University of Minnesota Duluth:
“For a long time, people thought that nothing really happens when lakes are covered by ice. They're kind of dormant, and quiet and dark. But it turns out that there is a lot of biology happening that's interesting and relevant throughout the year.”
16. Person walking dog while pulling child on sled
17. Various gingerbread art shanty with artists in witch costume UPSOUND (English):
“There is a wood stove in there. Burning wood? Yes. That's right. You got to keep those elixirs warm.”
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Erin Lavelle, Art Shanty Projects Artistic Director:
“Seven feels like negative five right now. Well first of all, I'm a winter enthusiast and it's my favorite season. I think winter is beautiful and the most creative season of all. But this really is a community gathering. And when I walk around the shanty village and see visitors bundled up with big smiles on their faces, it makes me feel like we are really doing something to bring people together.”
19. Various people interacting with art shanties
STORYLINE:
Sub-zero wind chills didn't stop thousands of people from tromping out onto a frozen lake in Minneapolis to immerse themselves in art, make new friends - and try their best to stay warm.
The annual Art Shanty Projects drew crowds onto Lake Harriet for the first of four weekends of interactive, often silly and occasionally downright strange art events. The art was presented in or near shanties, a repurposing of the shelters often seen on Minnesota lakes for hardy souls who ice fish in the frigid depths of winter.
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