To understand a piece of a art, we have to read things beyond the way it is presented. Objects in the world have meanings. Art is about manipulating perception, thoughts, ideas, these meanings. A curator develops critical discourse, a vocabulary, to review art and get to interpretation. What do we cover when we do a critique? What do we look at when reviewing artwork? How do we get to our interpretation? How do we see objects and create meaning? We can start by asking the question: what is/was the activity/function of the piece? Has it become disfunctional, has it cancelled its previous function? What's the new function?

Here is this empty cabin, a perfect and unique place to host an art show! You are asked to set up a show using Joep Van Lieshout's cabin and moving art gallery as the exhibition space. If you were the curator and your gallery space is the cabin, what kind of exhibition would you put up? Select artwork from the Walker Art Center's collection that you think may fit the look of the space and theme of the cabin.

Make decisions about where to place the artwork in the cabin. It's like being an interior designer, only the placement of each work is significant Explain why you selected what you did and why you placed it where you did.

View this as your chance to determine why, how, and what to exhibit in the moving artlab.

Let's imagine that you could rearrange the galleries and create new thematic units. What kind of show would you design? Here's an empty space where you can design your own mini-exhibit. Move around the cabin and moving artlab that are installed in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, to examine the space. Then, look through the Walker Art Center's pages and select artwork to exhibit in the space. Before choosing which works of art to include, need to choose a theme (ie. on an idea, such as motherhood, or on a certain element such as the color black or patterns in art.) Now go through the galleries and choose at least 4 works that you would include in the cabin.