(Biddeford, ME) Amy Stacey Curtis's sixth solo-biennial exhibit of interactive installation art, TIME, will take place October 9-28, 2010 throughout 16,000 square feet of Biddeford's Pepperell Mill. The Maine Arts Commission's 2005 Individual Artist Fellow for Visual Art, Curtis has been mounting these ambitious biennials of different themes since 2000, nine exhibits total, one occurring every other year through 2016. Each exhibit is 22 months of work, installed in a different Maine community’s vast mill space, and requires audience perpetuation. Says Curtis, “Without the audience's participation, my work is unfinished.”

As with Curtis's previous solo biennials, some of TIME's nine installations require participants' physical touch or effect, while others function through purposeful perception. Each installation has instructions, the instructions themselves being an integral part of the art. The audience is asked to manipulate, maintain, enter, detect, distinguish, recognize--challenged to explore the concept of time in new ways. Two of the nine installations at TIME include: flux III a straight, equidistant row of ninety-nine hourglasses, one for each hour of the exhibit, on a 64 foot long pedestal. After Curtis inverts the first hourglass at 12:00 pm on October 9, marking the start of the exhibit, participants invert subsequent hourglasses successively, one per exhibit hour. For undoing, Curtis has crocheted an hour every day for a year; all the yarn continuous making a 7-foot-by-81-foot white form. Starting on October 9, participants undo the yarn from the form, placing undone yarn into a 7-foot-long, clear-plexiglass box. The piece is complete once it is "undone" or once the exhibit ends at 5:00 pm on October 28—whichever comes first. Curtis committed to this 18-year process to convey that we are a part of a whole, that everyone and everything is connected and affects.

Previous solo-biennial themes have been: experience (2000), movement (2002), change (2004), sound (2006), and light (2008), taking place in Lewiston's Bates Mill, Westbrook's Old Sebago Shoe Mill, Brunswick's Fort Andross, Waterville's Lockwood Mill, and Sanford's Millstone Place respectively. Future themes are: space (2012), matter (2014), and memory (2016). Her hope is that in the end her exploration might have been thorough, her 81 installations comprising the nine biennials' imagery a cohesive “wholehesive” whole.

TIME is funded in part by a grant from the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Rebel Blend Fund grant from Coffee By Design. TIME is sponsored by The Mills at Pepperell, LLC (www.northdammill.com), and collaboratively sponsored by the Biddeford arts non-profit Engine (www.feedtheengine.org).

TIME, October 9-28, Pepperell Mill, 2 Main Street, Biddeford. Opening: Saturday, October 9, 12:00 to 4:00 pm. Exhibit hours are every day 12:00 to 5:00 pm. Free admission or donation. Enter/participate at own risk. This exhibit is not appropriate for small children as there are vulnerable elements. For directions or more information, please contact Amy at www.amystaceycurtis.com or 207-838-3390.

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