Standby Snow: Chronicles of a Heatwave, Chapter One
August 28 & 29, 2019
Story Mill Grain Terminal
Bozeman, MT
STANDBY SNOW: CHRONICLES OF A HEATWAVE, CHAPTER ONE, a new place-based project premiered at Story Mill Grain Terminal in Bozeman, Montana on August 28 & 29, 2019. This intertextual work brings together video, architecture, music and live performance to activate this rich and complex location rife with historical narratives and environmental lessons. STANDBY SNOW: CHRONICLES OF A HEATWAVE, CHAPTER ONE was researched and created by a collaborative team of artists, designers, and scholars including Shane Doyle (Apsáalooke/Crow), Ben Lloyd, Jim Madden, Kelly Olinger, Alayna Rasile, Laine Rettmer, Stephen St. Francis Decky, Mary Ellen Strom, and MJ Williams. STANDBY SNOW’s narrative and libretto was created with Brian King (Amskapi Pikuni/Blackfeet), Dr. Steve Running, Dr. Cathy Whitlock, Jill Falcon Mackin (Ojibwe), Erik Rodriguez, and Shane Weeks (Shinnecock). STANDBY SNOW was made through a series of “studies,” dialogues, workshops, barbecues, and residencies in Bozeman; at the Montana Artist Refuge (Basin, MT); the Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research; and the Watermill Center for the Arts (Watermill, NY).
Mountain Time Arts is grateful for the generous support from:
Center for Arts; Design and Social Research, Comma Q Architecture, Foundation for the Carolinas, Massive Studios, Sylvia and Robb Miller, Montana Artist Refuge, Pheasant Farms, Poss Family Foundation, The Kendeda Fund, The MAP Fund; a program of Creative Capital, The Watermill Center’s Artist Residency Program, Vivian Bridaham Banta, Janne Berghold, Melissa Blessing, Mary Brutger Christine and Hentry Happel, Instrinsik Architecture, James Madden, Iris Model, Steve and Claudia Nobel, Eva and Duncan Patten, Echo Arts, Carson and Dede Taylor, Sas & Stuart Weber and Anonymous and Montana Arts Council; an agency of the State Government.
Special thanks to our partners and collaborators:
City of Bozeman Parks Division, Danhof Chevrolet, The Frank Center, Gallatin Valley Land Trust, Bob & Jane Hawks, Grace King, Ben & Deana Lloyd , Ed Wilbur & Emily Loufek, MFGR Designs Cliff & Joan Montagne , Music Villa, Dava Newman, Owenhouse Ace Hardware, Ben & Barbara Phinney, Shlegel Family, Jodi Rave Spotted Bear (Mandan-Hidatsa & Lakota), Story Mill Art, Dede & Carson Taylor, Gui Trotti, Robert Wilson