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Get your bids ready, the auction’s coming to town and here’s some swell stuff!
Field Guide
Aug 2010
As promised in my last post, here is a sneak preview of the objects I plan to bring to the Futurefarmers’ auction on September 4th.
Now, let me tell you a little something about these things. First, the paper star…
Given to me by a lovely chap, this beautiful paper handicraft lives in my buffet of curiosities, resting on a yellow plate. It was made by a monk at St. John’s University. I think it has some…
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Mapping out Ralph Lemon’s new performance project
The Green Room
Aug 2010
How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere? continues a relationship between Ralph Lemon and the Walker that dates back more than 15 years. In 1995, Lemon dissolved his successful dance company, abandoning the familiarity of New York and his own creative process to embark on open-ended research that has taken him around the globe. Since then, he has evolved into a kind of modern-day…
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Come one, come all, to the auction on Sept. 4th!
Field Guide
Aug 2010
What 3 objects do you have lying around at home that would be an alluring addition to a public auction? I’ve been milling this question over lately as I plan to participate in the upcoming auction in Walker’s Open Field on Saturday, September 4th. Since I don’t really possess anything of great financial value, except my shiny new laptop (which I won’t be bringing), I started to weigh the value of my…
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Critical Thinkers on Rock and Roll, Language, and the Commons!
Field Guide
Aug 2010
Speakers are brought to the Walker Art Center regularly to share their views on arts, politics, science and culture at large. In the past decades critical luminaries who have given memorable lectures include: Greil Marcus, Susan Faludi and Peter Schjeldahl pictured here.
Greil Marcusfirst lectured at the Walker in 1988 as part of the American Icons series. He returned in 1996 for a Mack Lecture on…
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Recipe for an Open Field
Field Guide
Aug 2010
On Friday September 3, we invite you to the penultimate Open Field event: the Harvest Picnic at 6pm. In the spirit of gastronomical celebration, we want to reflect on our favorite “ingredients” of the cultural commons and thank our Open Field participants with lots of cake. Sharing food is an important aspect of the commons, and cakes in particular are made to be shared, passed around, and enjoyed in…
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Building the 50/50 Voting App
Media Lab
Aug 2010
For our upcoming exhibition 50/50: Audience and Experts Curate the Paper Collection, we’re trying something a bit different. As you can probably tell from the title, we’re allowing our audience to help us curate a show. The idea is that our chief curator, Darsie Alexander, will curate 50% of the show, and the audience will select from a group of 180 different print works for the other half.
As with…
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Picture This: The ArtsConnectEd Workshop
Field Guide
Aug 2010
If you had walked into the Walker Art Lab on the morning of the 11 of July, you would have been greeted by the sight of numerous ladies huddled over their laptops. No, they were not journalists. Neither were they extremely fashionable computer game beta-testers. They were, in fact, participants of the exciting two-day ArtsConnectEd workshop, conducted by Susan Rotilie, Program Manager for School…
