Cali Mastny, Olivia Mackall, Aaron Prust, Caly McMorrow, Scott Raleigh, Cole Sarar, David Bryan, Laura Gerald, Rachel Bendtsen, Claire Alexander, Marc Gutman, Beth Scudder, Dan Bayn, Lauren Desteno, Sarah Honeywell, Rachel Schwartz
2014
Exhibited:
Art Shanty Projects 2014 – White Bear Lake, MN
Northern Spark Festival 2014 – Minneapolis, MN
Elevator Shanty is a interactive elevator experience is a collaboration designed for Art Shanty Projects – a month-long outdoor winter art festival in the middle of a frozen lake. It was revived a second time for Northern Spark Art Festival.
Elevator shanty had an outdoor lobby and gave the experience of entering a working elevator, complete with lights, buttons, vibrations, music and moving elevator doors – all controlled by an operator at a computer in the back room, and powered by solar panels. The elevator would “stop” on different floors. There might be a dance party, or the lights would go out and it would need to be “repaired”. Sometimes it it would go to the “basement floor” and our staff would use a facade to make it seem as if we were below the lake, other times the floor number would rise quickly into the hundreds and we’d imagine being in space. Rides could be customized based on the visitors, and occasionally we’d sneak people out through a secret door, and inform people waiting out front that the previous passengers had gotten off on another floor.