Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Live from Kirkwood

Downtown passersby may notice something unusual about the Buskirk-Chumley’s marquee this weekend. As part of ArtsWeek and a followup to its event, the Dirt Song Collective will take over the sign at 10:30 a.m. Saturday and 12:30 p.m. Sunday. During the two-hour public performance art pieces, messages will come and go, as well as stage directions, on the sign that holds only 22 characters at a time. (Take that, Twitter.) Instead of pointing to performances, the marquee will become the stage and the public the performers. Dirt Song Collective artists include Tim Andreae, Catherine Bowman, Mark Harrison and Daniel Peltz. Says Bowman, Ruth Lilly Professor of Poetry at the IU Department of English and the group’s founder: “Our hope is too heighten and gently provoke perceptions of the immediate environment, if only in the slightest way by asking those on foot or driving by to, for example, sound out a spontaneous love note to the traffic or in three minutes notice three kinds of impacts.”

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