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Letters to Larry

Presented by Gallery of Contemporary Art at UCCS at UCCS - The Heller Center

September 26-October 4, 2008

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For the fall of 2008, e-Xplo was invited to participate in an exhibition entitled Mind the Gap at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (Gallery of Contemporary Art) organized by Christopher Lynn. What they came up with is an "audio play" entitled "Letters to Larry." The show explores the idea of "negative space" in its formal, geographical, and political resonances.

"For our project, we selected a site, which had been donated to the University in the 90s by Dorothy and Larry Heller. The two had homesteaded the 34-acre land parcel in the 1930s and were contributing to what was meant to become a thriving artist colony in Colorado Springs.

We were allowed access to the Heller archives, including artwork, personal notebooks and his eclectic record and tape collection. Building from this background and considering the two major slogans of the recent presidential election campaign: Change and Hope, we developed a fictional play, built around various letters [written] by different people, addressed to Larry and Dorothy Heller.

The history of the space and its current indefinite status attracted us to develop a work which consists of several loudspeakers spread out and mounted in different places across the range.

The public is invited to walk and listen while the texts, sounds and musical interludes mix and linger with the songs of the coyotes and the hawks, the wind and the grass of the prairie."

– e-Xplo

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    UCCS - The Heller Center

    1250 North Campus Drive
    Colorado Springs, CO 80918

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    Tickets: Free

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    September 26-October 4, 2008

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    Two weekends only!
    September 26-27 and October 3-4
    4-7 p.m.

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