The Warming Huts are back! Presented by Artis REIT, Winnipeg’s popular winter installations return for 2019, with engaging new installations. Started in 2009, Warming Huts: An Art + Architecture Competition on Ice has been melding world-class design and art with Winnipeg?s famous winters. This year, seven new installations hit the ice:
By Invitation:
TERJE ISUNGSET ? Ice Musician ? Bergen, Norway
Terje Isunget has combined natural elements in his music using wood, stones, and metals in their original forms for years before he pioneered the use of ice as instruments in 1999 when he was commissioned to compose a piece using ice for the Lillehammer Winter Festival. Terje has also performed for the Ice Hotel in Sweden and on international television. He will perform with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra as part of the New Music Festival at The Forks using instruments made from Red River ice. PAVILION SUB-ZERO ? Sputnik Architecture with University of Manitoba Faculty of Architecture ? Winnipeg, MB
Pavilion Sub-Zero will feature a shimmering, colourful cloud floating above performers and audience members in The Forks Historic Port, the heart of the Red River Mutual Trail. With feature performances by invited artist Terje Isungset and members of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Pavilion Sub-Zero celebrates ephemeral qualities of the frozen river scape, through live performances, and the opportunity be together.
A new tensile structure will support ?the cloud? of screens that...