høle in the skY: zeitgeist new music, kathy mctavish & radiø plutø

last passenger pigeon she slipped away forever into sky through iron bars into blue …

Join St. Paul's Zeitgeist New Music Ensemble, composer Kathy McTavish and poet Sheila Packa for a Duluth performance of the new chamber work: høle in the skY. On this night we will present this media installation / live performance / discussion in fusion with radiø plutø artists:

Julie Gard
Rocky Makes Room
Kathy McTavish
Katelynn Monson
Sheila Packa
Kathleen Roberts
Richie Townsend
Jake Vainio

Gimaajii Mino-Bimaadiziyaan
(202 W. Second St. Duluth, MN)

see: http://holeinthesky.blueboatfilms.com/

free / grateful for donations

funded by an American Composers Forum JFund Commission. This activity is also made possible in part by a grant provided by the Minnesota State Arts Board through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature from the State's arts and cultural heritage fund with money from the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.

Please feel free to bring your devices to this immersive, live performance & installation … you will have the opportunity to wander / drill down / traverse / write to the screen …

from Zeitgeist:
Join Zeitgeist and Duluth composer/cellist/environmental activist Kathy McTavish for a performance of her new chamber work høle in the skY. Featuring electronic and acoustic music, video, and an interactive exhibition, høle in the skY explores a pre-apocalyptic world where extinction is imminent and our ecosystem is on the verge of collapse. Drawing on McTavish’s past work in ecosystem modeling, the work considers the delicacy of ecosystems, our human quest to recover those systems, and what it might mean to be the last of a species left alive.

from Kathy
For the live performance of høle in the skY, I created a text / video / minimalist sound installation - a landscape - that encloses the 4 musicians. The core story revolves around planetary climate change / extinction. Specifically, the core text comes from a book I wrote in 2012 called: "night train / blue window" about the last passenger pigeon, Martha, who died in the Cincinnati Zoo September 1, 1914. Another text is laced throughout the piece in counterpoint. It is the story of a girl growing up on the Iron Range of Minnesota. This text is from the book: "Night Train Red Dust: Poems of the Iron Range" by Sheila Packa. It provides an intimate human voice in a sea of rapid climactic change.

As a composer, improvisational cellist and installation artist, I am interested in the ways we stain each other. I am drawn to episodic stories, evolving myths, wandering installations, shifting landscapes, phantom exhibits, street music, ephemeral / improvisational / vanishing spaces, inarticulate languages, loose collaborations … the infinite between.

Join us also on Sunday September 28th at 10:30 am for a light breakfast & discussion with Zeitgeist's Heather Barringer about creative collaborations and about sustaining an arts career / arts organization. She will share her experience developing creative partnerships, nurturing collaborations, fund raising and fostering community. This is an opportunity for us to share our experiences with each other & to further develop ties between our two communities.

We will meet at Gimaajii again but this time in Trepanier Hall. This gives you a chance to also see the beautiful work by Rodrigo Bello that is on display.