Reaching Water
a site/non-site installation by
Mags Harries and Lajos Héder
December 2, 2004 - February 2, 2005
Reaching Water features a new site-specific installation
created by Mags Harries and Lajos Héder
for the CAC Gallery, a sampling of Drawn Water, the
public art at the Walter J. Sullivan Water Purification Plant
at Fresh Pond, and a real-time interactive link to WaterWorks
, a Harries/Héder public artwork at Arizona Falls in
Phoenix, Arizona.
Mags Harries and Lajos Héder have worked together
as the Harries/Héder Collaborative since 1990. As a
design team with extensive combined experience in public art,
sculpture, urban design, architecture, and planning, they
have completed major public art commissions in communities
throughout the United States and abroad. In addition to the
sites in Cambridge and Arizona, their water projects include
permanent and temporary installations in Maine, Hawaii, Ohio,
and Bronx, New York. For more information please visit www.harriesheder.com.
Related Events for Reaching Water:
Opening Reception
Thursday, December 2, 2004, 5:00 - 7:30 p.m. at CAC Gallery
Gallery Talk and Book Signing
The artists will discuss their water projects and sign the
exhibition catalogue.
Thursday, January 6, 2005, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. at CAC Gallery
Site Visit and Tour of Drawn Water and Panel Discussion
Monday, January 24, 2005, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. at the
Walter J. Sullivan Water Purification Facility,
250 Fresh Pond Parkway, Cambridge
After a tour of the Water Purification Facility Mags Harries
and Lajos Héder will lead a panel discussion to explore
the role of water in public art, with reference to projects
by Harries and Héder in Cambridge and Phoenix, Arizona,
with a live feed from Arizona.
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