Northern Spark 2014 - Update #1

Many of us missed having the Northern Spark event in our Mill District and surrounding neighborhoods last year. We were excited to learn they're returning to Minneapolis for 2014.  To whet your appetite, below are the first of many ongoing updates we'll post between now and June 14.

Luke Savisky to Animate Gold Medal Silos with You

Northern Lights.mn is excited to bring a monumental work by Austin, TX-based artist, projectionist and performer Luke Savisky to Northern Spark 2014.

Working with multiple video projections layered and montaged over the Gold Medal silos in Minneapolis, Savisky will animate the structure with the help of Northern Spark participants in a project titled E/x MN. Participants will enter Savisky's dreamscape by reclining on specially-made filming platforms and performing for the camera. Live video feed of participants will be projected onto the massive silos; their images will appear to move through the structures and interact with each other, unfolding a broken and spontaneous narrative. Enduring and changing through the night, the video projections will create a beautiful and immersive transformation of both the iconic silos and the people who experience Northern Spark.

Ghostly Streetcar Will Project the Past into the Present

The Shiny Naughty Collective (Marieka Heinlen, Sarah Honeywell, and Angela Maki Jones) have teamed up with The Flightless Bird Brothers (Jeremy Clark and John Murphy) to create an installation titled Razing Minneapolis—or—The Ghostly Streetcar History Tour. This apparition will project historic architectural silhouettes on modern buildings, telling stories of our lost Twin Cities, in the West River Parkway zone during Northern Spark 2014.

You may remember the Shiny Naughty Collective for their past appearances at Northern Spark with the Naughty Shanty (2012) and Kaleidoscope Shanty (2013) as part of Art Shanty Projects. The Ghostly Streetcar History Tour is their first independently presented Northern Spark project.

Events to spark your interest

Luke Savisky Happy Hour • March 27 @ 6pm-7:30pm Join Northern Spark staff and volunteers for a casual happy hour at Zen Box Izakaya to welcome artist Luke Savisky to Minneapolis. Northrop Grand Re-Opening begins • April 4, 2014 Events include the Northrop Inside Out Grand Reopening Gala performance, reception, and Inside Out After Dark dance party. Art(ists) on the Verge 5 artist talks • April 12 @ 2pm + April 19 @ noon AOV5 fellow Aaron Marx (NS 2014 project with MakeSh!t) will discuss his work currently on view at The Soap Factory. Northern Spark 2014 • June 14 @ 9:01pm - 5:26am Only 81 days away!