But out on White Bear Lake, the Art Shanty Project’s second of three homes, person after person stepped inside. “People are there to play in a different way,” Garwood said. He was hooked.
Because last year’s shanties were cut short, Garwood is bringing back NatureGrafter, the mutating meditation on Minnesota’s natural world, which he created with artist Sam Price, his wife. He presents that piece, with its “patent-pending new chimeracule redistribution process,” as scientific, but it’s “100% fake science.”
So he loves that this year’s festival will feature some real scientists, presenting real science.
The festival itself is a kind of meta-conversation about climate change, said Garwood, who worked on climate policy at the city level for many years.
“The idea that ice on a lake in Minnesota in January and February is a roll of the dice at this point should make us all take a long, hard look in the mirror and say, ‘What are we doing?’” he said. “It’s interesting to me that people are thinking about how do we, in this setting, give people an artistic, participatory experience around the fact that winter is under threat?”
When: Weekends from Jan. 18-Feb. 9, with pop-up performances and other events
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