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Artists and Architects Think Inside the Big Box
Matt Peiken
Feb 2008
What happens when good malls go bad? You don’t have to look far for answers. Hundreds of so-called “dead malls”—shuttered strip malls, derelict shopping centers, and abandoned big boxes litter our landscape. Among those leading the efforts to reimagine, resuscitate, and reincarnate these husks are artists and architects in the Walker exhibition Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes. In turn, enterprising…
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Faegre & Benson LLP: Envisioning Progress in Lives and Communities
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Feb 2008
The Walker’s Women with Vision international film festival recognizes the unique contributions and perspectives women bring to the art of filmmaking. It also provides a showcase for their remarkable and poignant stories and documentaries. Films featured this year explore issues that often pertain to vulnerable populations in a variety of countries and cultures. Among these is Older Than America…
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Voices Seen and Heard
Joanna Kohler
Feb 2008
Public engagement, access, and community storytelling are the major reasons I found myself attracted to documentary filmmaking. With my first documentary, Witness, I saw the need for exhibition venues that are open to young people and that could host community conversations. This is when, in 1999, I first experienced the Walker and the Girls in the Director’s Chair program. In March 2007, I premiered my…
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Trisha Brown Draws on Her Muse—on Paper and Onstage
Matt Peiken
Feb 2008
In the 1970s, Trisha Brown created notational drawings as road maps for her dancers. Today, one of the founding innovators of postmodern dance draws with abandon, largely as a personal, impulsive expression unto itself. That is, of course, when she can muster the time. If she isn’t steering the vaunted dance company bearing her name, Brown is choreographing opera productions-her next one, she says, will…
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JoAnn Verburg
Matt Peiken
Jan 2008
JoAnn Verburg holds two St. Paul zip codes—one for the apartment she shares with her husband, poet Jim Moore, and one for her studio, just south of the Wabasha Street bridge. But Verburg’s photography has always had a trajectory far beyond the Twin Cities. Many subjects of the portraits, landscapes, and still lifes that elevated her name in fine-art circles are East Coast artists and friends, Italian…
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20 Years of Out There
Matt Peiken
Dec 2007
January can be to the performing arts as the midnight hours are to television—repositories for the weird, the risky, and ultimately, test patterns. In that vein, nobody knew what to expect in 1989, when the Walker Art Center and Southern Theater defrosted their January calendars by clustering a program of new, experimental, and under-the radar work.
Today, the Out There series is an annual bedrock of…
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Y tu olvidados tambin
Rob Nelson
Oct 2007
In a recent roundup of Mexican movies on DVD, Village Voice critic J. Hoberman began by asking if cine Mexicano predates the likes of Del Toro, Iñárritu, and Cuarón. Obviously the question was rhetorical—and satirical as well. Here’s another in the same vein: Do Mexican cineastas need global distribution and Oscar nominations to be considered nuevo?
Put it this way: If you say the French New Wave is…
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“My Africa is Always in the Becoming:” Outside the Box with Faustin Linyekula
Brenda Dixon Gottschild
Sep 2007
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“If there’s any politics about my work, it’s to put individuals at the center of the discussion rather than treating them like sheep.”
Talking one-on-one with Faustin Linyekula makes you realize how much we are led by appearances, and how misleading appearances can be. As is probably the case with so many people he meets (black, white, brown—on whatever continent he may be), this powerful man…
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Super Night Shot
Robin Arthur
Aug 2007
OK, it goes something like this: there are four of them and one is Hero (although later on he decides to be the Villain), one is the Location Scout, one is the Publicity Agent, and one is the Casting Director, and it all starts at the end, when you’re in the bar before the show has really started and you get given these sparklers and streamers and you’re asked to welcome the performers back into the…