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Footprints mark the light brown sand and dirt of a giant crater that has landed in southeast Minneapolis. Seven ultrabright parking-lot lights illuminate the rocky depression, backlit by the glow of floor-to-ceiling windows in a new apartment complex across the street.
On a recent warm Friday night, groups of people gathered in the 15-foot-deep hole at 445 Malcolm Av. SE. while others walked the edge, carving a trail around it.
This is "Stadium" by Los Angeles artist/musician Jasper Marsalis -- the fifth project in Midway Contemporary Art's series of off-site programs aimed at outdoor or large indoor spaces where it's easy to social-distance.
"It's a new way of thinking about getting artists' voices out into the public," said Midway director John Rasmussen, who started organizing the series in April as pandemic reality set in. "With what's going on in our country and our state, it's important that artists' voices be heard."
Midway Off-Site was launched Oct. 7 in an empty warehouse in north Minneapolis with Nicole Miller's "To the Stars," an hourlong documentary-ish film featuring a poetic interspersing...