Amy Stacey Curtis'
seventh solo-biennial exhibit of interactive installation

SPACE

SPACE comprises nine temporary large-scale works, each an audience-activated experience. The exhibit as a whole is an ephemeral, contemplative interchange between artist, community, and environment. Once the biennial ends, Curtis's work exists only through documentation, dialogue, and memory. SPACE will be open for participation October 6-26, 2012, presented throughout 30,000+ s.f. within one of Maine's mills, once again re-energizing space potentially unused for many years.

Each biennial becomes a tactile metaphor conveying that we are part of a whole, that everyone and everything is connected and affects, no matter how long the duration of impact. Many of SPACE's installations require participants' physical touch, effect, or perpetuation while others function through active and purposeful perception. Each installation is accompanied by instructions, an integral part of the experience. Audience is asked to manipulate, maintain, enter, notice, distinguish, recognize--challenged to contemplate space in new ways. The audience is an aesthetic, conceptual, and collective part of the installations and the event as a whole, completing my work process. Without audience's careful participation, my work is unfinished.

Please contribute toward SPACE by purchasing a drawing or making a donation. Contact Curtis at amy@amystaceycurtis.com for mailing address or make donation using PayPal (type "donation" into "Description" field).

Another way to contribute toward SPACE: How many square feet can you sponsor?

SPACE is funded in part by a grant from the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.

SPACE is supported by a grant from the Artists' Resource Trust, and funded in part by and in collaboration with the University of New England Art Gallery's Contemporary Maine Women Art Pioneers Program, with a grant from the Quimby Family Foundation.

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