Dream the Combine
Listen in to a conversation about T R A C K I N G by award-winning architecture/art duo Dream the Combine. The project is an intimate portrait of winter for The Great Northern. Consisting of a series of five movement prompts and responses distributed via text message, the artwork will be an archive of our collective remembrances of winter.
Project participants will explore the ways in which we are all bodies of water in relation to each other by receiving a text message that offers an intention for the day. People are then invited to share their response to the day’s message in the form of audio, video, and/or image files sent as a reply within 24 hours. Tracks and visuals received will later be combined to create a polyrhythmic sonic image of this time and place. T R A C K I N G encourages you to bring your awareness to the small moments of winter that cohere all of us (body, environment, cosmos) in an interrelated system. The movement prompts are simple, often tapping into our long-term procedural memories. They can be done wherever you find yourself, highlighting that we can all experience something unexpected right where we are.
The final output of the project will be a series of audio tracks made in collaboration with artist Isaac Gale and made available during the vernal equinox on March 20, 2021. This is when our side of the earth tilts back towards the sun and water moves toward its eventual thaw.
About Dream the Combine
Jennifer Newsom and Tom Carruthers are licensed architects, artists, and principals of Dream The Combine, based in Minneapolis, MN. They have produced numerous site-specific installations in the U.S. and Canada that explore metaphor, perceptual uncertainties, and the boundary between real and illusory space. They are winners of the 2018 Young Architects Program at MoMA PS1 for their installation Hide & Seek, and were recently named winners of the 2020-2021 J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize. Jennifer and Tom are both graduates of the Yale School of Architecture.
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