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Kitchen Lab: Food as Catalyst of Community and Culture
James Norton
Jul 2012
Weaving together gastronomy, sensory and tactile experiences, opera, agriculture, history, and activism, Kitchen Lab—a two-week residency on the Walker’s Open Field in late June—convened an experiment in provoking interaction and discussion through the shared experience of food. Heavy Table editor James Norton samples the project’s offerings.
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ROLU’s Field Tests: Merging the Digital and the Actual in Open Field
Greg Allen
Jul 2012
In its design work and on its blog, Minneapolis’ ROLU explores ideas at the nexus of architecture, landscape design, and conceptual art. Artists-in-residence at Open Field this month, they aim to link the digital and the actual. “We are interested in reaching into [the Web’s] river of images and make something tangible from them,” says ROLU’s Matt Olson. “Creating something physical—taking an action.”
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The Most Direct Filmmaking: Dwight Swanson on Home Movies
Emily Davis
Jul 2012
The cultural value of home movies, says Dwight Swanson, is that they can share unexpected moments of intimacy and humanity or views of history that might otherwise be lost. These tales, he adds, can be so honest and bracing due to the simple fact that their intended audiences may have been only a handful of people.
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In My Tribe
Jim Walsh
Jul 2012
A Twin Cities music legend in his own right, Jim Walsh has chronicled the scene in the pages of the Pioneer Press, Rolling Stone, and his own book, The Replacements: All Over But The Shouting, among others. Launching our new series tied to the exhibition This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, he shares his thoughts on Minneapolis-St. Paul during a critical decade.
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The Next Frontier for Minneapolis Parks
Mason Riddle
Jun 2012
Already known nationally for its parks system, Minneapolis stands to burnish that reputation with a new plan for the upper reaches of the Mississippi. RiverFirst aims to establish parks as an engine for economic development along the river corridor, from St. Anthony Falls to the city limits some five miles to the north. City officials call it the park system’s “next frontier.”
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The Last Movement
Helen Molesworth & Bartholomew Ryan
Jun 2012
Many of the artists featured in This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s came of age in an era that saw the assimilation of two powerful and converging forces—mass-media saturation and movements for social justice. Exhibition curator Helen Molesworth talks with Walker assistant curator Bartholomew Ryan about the impetus for the show and what she hopes will resonate with viewers.
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The Cameras Must Stay On: Censorship, Jafar Panahi, and This Is Not a Film
Matt Levine
Jun 2012
Officially directed by Mojtaba Mirtahmasb—and unofficially by Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi—This Is Not a Film follows a harsh legislative decision that effectively banned Panahi from making movies for 20 years after he was convicted of conspiring against the state. He and Mirtahmasb set out to turn the sentence inside out, obeying the letter of the law in order to implicitly denounce its spirit.
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Why Food Now?
Susy Bielak & Sara Nichol
Jun 2012
With the launch of Kitchen Lab—an exploration of the home hearth and how the role of kitchens can be reconceived—Open Field artists Betsy and Carl DiSalvo discuss food culture with the Walker’s Susy Bielak and Sara Nichol. First topic: Why the recent upsurge in art, consumerism, and activism surrounding food?
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Eve Sussman’s Cinematic World Without End
Kathie Smith
Jun 2012
Equal parts sci-fi, noir, and formalist structure, Eve Sussman’s new multifaceted film embraces two creative touchstones: the first is the protean symbol of the Russian Cosmodrome, and the second is its namesake, Malevich’s painting White on White. Mining a surreal post-Soviet ambience, the result is a calculated, never-ending fever dream caught in a forgotten corner of the Earth.