JENNIFER ALLORA & GUILLERMO CALZADILLA/UNITED STATES MOSHEKWA LANGA/SOUTH AFRICA HÜSEYIN BAHRI ALPTEKIN/TURKEY MAREPE/BRAZIL CAN ALTAY/TURKEY HIROYUKI OKI/JAPAN KAORU ARIMA/JAPAN TSUYOSHI OZAWA/JAPAN ATELIER BOW-WOW (TSUKAMOTO/KAIJIMA)/JAPAN RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE/INDIA CABELO/BRAZIL ROBIN RHODE/SOUTH AFRICA FRANKLIN CASSARO/BRAZIL USHA SEEJARIM/SOUTH AFRICA SANTIAGO CUCULLU/UNITED STATES RANJANI K. SHETTAR/INDIA ANITA DUBE/INDIA SONG DONG/CHINA ESRA ERSEN/TURKEY TABAIMO/JAPAN SHEELA GOWDA/INDIA WANG JIAN WEI/CHINA ZON ITO/JAPAN YIN XIUZHEN/CHINA CAMERON JAMIE/UNITED STATES ZHAO LIANG/CHINA GÜLSÜN KARAMUSTAFA/TURKEY   Robin Rhode HE GOT GAME 2000 Courtesy the artist Berlin, Germany Ranging from drawings to architectural structures, new-media installations to documentary films, the works in How Latitudes Become Forms resist standard artistic designations. Engaging and challenging as they might be, these multifaceted pieces invite us to acknowledge that there cannot be a homogenous definition of what constitutes a work of art and that the criteria of evaluation should constantly be reassessed. Many of these works dwell in a realm between technical and conceptual borders, combining popular culture, the mundane, and tradition to reveal the subversive, expansive power of art.   Marepe TROUXA (BUNDLE) 1995 Courtesy Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil Often creating site-specific, collaborative works and privileging process over form, Latitudes artists stretch the definitions of their media. Embracing a sense of civic responsibility that redefines activism, they seem to prefer "making art politically" rather than "making political art." Their work explores concepts of the local and the global, but avoids making a distinction between the two. This exhibition presents projects intended to be explored by artists and audiences together in an alternative and open-ended reflection on the ongoing shifts in our global age.

IN THE SHOPS
HOW LATITUDES BECOME FORMS
This Walker-produced exhibition catalogue features works by 34 multidisciplinary artists and essays by Philippe Vergne, Paulo Herkenhoff, Hidenaga Otori, Hou Hanru, and others. 336 pages, Softcover: $29.95 ($26.96 Walker members).



TOUR SCHEDULE
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Per L'Arte
Torino, Italy: June 1-September 14, 2003

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Houston, Texas: July 17-September 19, 2004

Other venues to be announced.

Tsuyoshi Ozawa MUSEUM OF SOY SAUCE ART 1998-2000 (detail) Collection Lambert, Avignon, France

RELATED EVENTS

ARTISTS IN ACTION: AFRICAN INFLUENCES ON CONTEMPORARY PERFORMING ARTS AND PERFORMANCE ART
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 7 PM, FREE, AUDITORIUM
Performing Arts Curator Philip Bither leads a discussion with arts presenters and artists from around the world on the African influences in their field.

DIRECTOR'S CIRCLE RECEPTION AND DINNER
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 6-9 PM, $60 DIRECTOR'S CIRCLE MEMBERS
Director's Circle members and their guests are invited to join Walker Director Kathy Halbreich, curators, and international artists for a gala reception and dinner. For information about joining the Director's Circle, call Sara Järvinen at 612.375.7641.

WALKER AFTER HOURS/PREVIEW PARTY
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 9 PM-12 MIDNIGHT, $14 ($7 WALKER MEMBERS)
Meet today's young artists from around the globe at this opening celebration: watch Cameron Jamie's film on backyard wrestling, BB, accompanied live by the Melvins; see a performance by dancer-choreographer Ralph Lemon and collaborators; discover Brazilian performance artist Cabelo at work in the galleries; and much more.

PANEL DISCUSSION: GLOBAL CURATING IN THE 21ST CENTURY
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2:30 PM, FREE, AUDITORIUM
Walker Director Kathy Halbreich is joined by colleagues from around the world in a lively discussion of art in a global context.

FREE TOURS
Sunday, February 16, 2 pm
Sunday, February 23, 2 pm
Join the Walker Art Center's knowledgeable tour guides for a lively, engaging, and informative tour of the exhibition.

LECTURE: TARIQ ALI ON WAR AND EMPIRE
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 7 PM, FREE WITH GALLERY ADMISSION, AUDITORIUM
New Left Review editor Tariq Ali ponders the effects of military technology on the physical world as well as changing attitudes toward global politics.

BRINGING THE WORLD HOME: 2002/2003 LATITUDES INITIATIVE ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE
As well as presenting landmark works by artists from around the globe, this initiative engages with today's artists by providing opportunities in Minneapolis for the development and presentation of new pieces.

Grupo Corpo Photo: Jose Luis Pederneiras

THE WALKER'S GLOBAL YEAR CONTINUES . . .

MARCH
PERFORMING ARTS: Melding the irreverent spirit of the 1960s/1970s Tropicalismo movement with the hard-edged realities of 21st-century Brazil, Rio-based dance-theater artist Lia Rodrigues presents Such Stuff As We Are Made Of. March 7-9.

FILM/VIDEO: Women with Vision, the annual film/video showcase of women filmmakers, highlights works that resonate with ideas of global migration and transformation. Featuring films from countries represented in the exhibition. March 5-22.

PERFORMING ARTS: Part of the vanguard of next-generation Brazilian musicians, Moreno Veloso + 2 melds the traditions of Brazil with its own distinctive brand of electronica, dub, and sweet art-pop inflections. March 13.

EDUCATION & COMMUNITY PROGRAMS: Croatian artist Andreja Kuluncic presents Distributive Justice, a multidisciplinary work involving artists, writers, and philosophers. March 13.

PERFORMING ARTS: Brazil's 19-member Grupo Corpo grafts the pliancy of modern dance and rhythmic complexity of Afro-Brazilian dance onto ballet. Leaders of Brazil's fertile contemporary dance scene, the company pairs this gorgeous hybrid with new sounds in Brazilian music. March 22.

NEW MEDIA INITIATIVES: Singapore-based tsunamii.net launches an online exploration of the relationship between physical space and cyberspace. Over one month, they will electronically migrate their site from webserver to webserver around the world, changing the DNS address after each move to reflect the new geographic location from which the site is served. Launches March 31.

APRIL
FILM/VIDEO: Celebrating the 15th anniversary of the Hubert Bals Fund, managed by the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the 10-film series Hubert Bals Fund at 15: Making a Reel Difference showcases independent films from Mauritania, Mexico, Argentina, Bangladesh, Japan, and Tajikistan. April 2-18.

PERFORMING ARTS: Using wit and athleticism to explore butoh, ballet, and theater, Kim Itoh + the Glorious Future addresses the fragility of human relationships in contemporary Japanese society in I Want to Hold You. April 3-5.

Bei Dao

EDUCATION & COMMUNITY PROGRAMS: Chinese dissident poet Bei Dao reads with fellow poet and translator Elliot Weinberger. April 3.

EDUCATION & COMMUNITY PROGRAMS: Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of The Anarchist in the Library, discusses the intensifying battle for control over information. April 8.

PERFORMING ARTS: The all-female Ensemble Tartit brings the music of West Africa's Taureg society to the United States for the first time. Formed in the refugee camps of Bassikounou, Mauritania, the group creates music that is universal in its hypnotic, bluesy qualities. April 12.

EDUCATION & COMMUNITY PROGRAMS: Critic and Dean of Faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Carol Becker critiques romantic notions of nomadism by recounting her experiences leading a group of student artists to Vietnam. April 15.

EDUCATION & COMMUNITY PROGRAMS: Marxist geographer Neil Smith, author of Uneven Development and The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City, will debate a representative from the Federal Reserve Board on the virtues and pitfalls of globalization. April 22.

PERFORMING ARTS: Showing how cultures borrow, steal, and reinterpret each other's myths, New York-based experimental theater company The Builders Association and London-based media-design-performance collective moti roti retell the story of Alladeen (Aladdin in the West). April 24-27.

EDUCATION & COMMUNITY PROGRAMS: A conference for teachers and teaching artists, Connecting Stories: Globalism and Interdisciplinary Education offers some stories behind the changing demographics of Minnesota schools and opens a dialogue about communication through the arts within and among global cultures. April 25-26.

EDUCATION & COMMUNITY PROGRAMS: Keith Kahn and Ali Zaidi (artistic directors of the London-based collective moti roti) and Danny Yung (artistic director of Hong Kong's Zuni Icosahedron) discuss the creation of multidisciplinary performance works and collaborations informed by a global context. April 27.

MAY
PERFORMING ARTS: Experimental choreographer Wen Hui and pioneering Chinese filmmaker Wu Wenguang codirect China's first independent dance-theater company, Living Dance Studio, in Report on Body, a look at the challenges women experience as they operate in the shadows of a male-dominated society. May 1-4.

JUNE
FILM/VIDEO: The wildly imaginative films of Takashi Miike are presented in the series Tokyo Underground: Takashi Miike's Mad Bad World. An eclectic kamikaze filmmaker and analyst of contemporary Japanese society, this subversive Osaka-based artist is noted for his remarkable output--five or six films per year. June 4-18.

HOW LATITUDES BECOME FORMS: ART IN A GLOBAL AGE IS MADE POSSIBLE BY GENEROUS SUPPORT FROM THE BUSH FOUNDATION, THE ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS, AMERICAN EXPRESS PHILANTHROPIC PROGRAM, THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION, PEGGY AND RALPH BURNET, MATTHEW O. FITZMAURICE, THE DANIEL LANGLOIS FOUNDATION FOR ART, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY, JUMEX FOUNDATION, THE ELIZABETH FIRESTONE GRAHAM FOUNDATION, PETER C. AND ANNIE REMES, AND SHISEIDO. PROMOTIONAL ASSISTANCE PROVIDED BY MPLS.ST.PAUL MAGAZINE.