Northern Spark 2014 - Update #11
Friday, June 6, 2014 at 2:00AM
Dosha Kitchen Feeds Your Spirit at Northern Spark
A collaboration between Minneapolis artists Jess Hirsch and Ginny Sims, Dosha Kitchen is a mobile camper that helps the public discover Ayurvedic Dosha throughout the night of Northern Spark.
“When we heard that the theme for Northern Spark was Projecting the City we decided to think about internal projections and projections of self. Ayurveda is a method of dividing up the internal self into three dispositions, or Doshas. Everyone is a blend of them,” explains Hirsch.
Doshas stem from Ayurvedic medicine, the oldest healing system in the world, originating in India five thousand years ago. Doshas are the triad of characteristics that dominate an individual: Vata, Pitta, and Kapha. Dosha Kitchen will reveal the viewer’s disposition through food, drink, and objecthood at their Northern Spark site on West River Parkway. To read more about this project, check out the interview with Hirsch and Sims on the Northern Spark blog.
Aerial Dance and Projection Draw Us beyond the LOOP
What can five collaborators from widely-varied disciplines and a shared poetic vision accomplish? Bill Cottman, Kenna Cottman, Lewis Hill, Kevin Obsatz, and Junauda Petrus invite us to consider this question and more from many angles with beyond the LOOP, a Northern Spark project that combines aerial acrobatics, media manipulation, dance, and social media to explore our dreams of wanting more for our cities.
Located under the Hennepin Avenue Bridge, beyond the LOOP repeats hourly in new combinations of performance improvisation and audio and video projection. During the performance, audience members are encouraged to take photographs and videos while moving around, seeking various vantage points.
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