January 16 - February 7, 2010
Medicine Lake
Plymouth, MN
The Black Bania
Elaine Tin Nyo, Taavo Somer, David Frank, Rik Horton, Paul D. Dickinson, Dwayne Williams, Thomas Thorpe, Matthew Schum
Black Bania is a smoking hot room on a frozen lake. A tipi will house a sauna room available for use by the public on a bring-your own-towel basis and provide additional space for restorative sauna related activity. We will explore the rich culture of communal sweat bathing referencing Finnish saunas, Russian banias, Roman baths and Turkish hammams, Korean zzimzilbangs, and Native American sweat lodges by providing a space for a series of intimate performances, intellectual exchange, and wholesome physical cleansing.
Part of Art Shanty Projects: "a four-weekend exhibition of performance, architecture, science, art, video, literature, survivalism and karaoke, ASP is part sculpture park, part artist residency and part social experiment, inspired by traditional ice fishing houses that dot the state’s lakes in winter."
[graphic from Google image search for "communal sweat lodge."]
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