Design Archives – Mn Artists

1Zines at the Tretter Collection, September 2018. Image courtesy of the Tretter Collection.

Let the Record Show: Lessons for Artists in Movements

Aegor Ray

Sarah Schulman’s landmark history of ACT UP is a seed bomb of inspiration and strategy for today

1Peng Wu and Yu Youyang, Irwin in the corporate meeting room, 2021.

Unlearning the Elephant: Against Multidisciplinarity

Boris Oicherman

Institutions, the control of meaning, and the artist’s potential to subvert the foundations of knowledge

1Skyler Nowinski, Material for Metaphorization, 2023.

Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art

5-23-2023

Material for Metaphorization

Naomi Crocker

1Ohutkan:Genesis is generated from soundwave files of Dakota thunder and seed planting songs. These songs mark the beginning of the Dakota New Year, a time of rebirth and renewal, as well as honor the tradition of seed-keeping, which preserves ancestral memory, and takes on a new meaning in the digital age.

Design Performing Arts Visual Art

5-12-2023

Glitching the Glass Wall: A Conversation with Autumn Cavender-Wilson

Juleana Enright

1Peng Wu, Ceramic Sunday, 2020. "One session of the Ceramic Sunday hosted on my dinner table, a free clay workshop for queer and immigrant friends almost every Sunday since June 2022."

Design Visual Art

5-9-2023

Peng Wu: Many Ways of Making Home

Melanie Pankau

1Moira (Miri) Villiard, Madweyaashkaa: Waves Can Be Heard, 2021.

Design Visual Art

4-28-2023

Moira Villiard: People and Space

Melanie Pankau

1Roshan Ganu, still from moving image collage पौर्णिमा : Gazing Into The Full Moon Night, 2022.

Design Moving Image Visual Art

4-23-2023

Roshan Ganu: Language and Illusion

Yuanrong Li

1A still from Analgesic Productions’ Sephonie. Image courtesy Marina Kittaka.

Design Literature

4-14-2023

Against the “World Wide Three Places”: A Conversation with Marina Kittaka

Ana Diaz

Design Visual Art

3-17-2023

Being in Place, Unseeing Ourselves

Torey Erin

1Photo: Matthew Jenkins. Courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.

Design Performing Arts

3-6-2023

A Living Record of Twin Cities Punk: 30 Years of Extreme Noise

Jake Yuzna

1April Stone prepares splint for weaving. Photo courtesy the author.

Design Visual Art

3-3-2023

On Learning Something Old

April Stone

1Peng Wu, Sleep Chapel, 2019. Pictured: Boris Oicherman. Courtesy Weisman Art Museum.

Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art

11-16-2022

Institution as Living Artist, as Can Opener, as System Change

Miranda Trimmier

1Minneapolis-based artist Dio Cramer in the “Spill Paint, Not Oil!” art studio. The banner behind her reads “Our House Is On Fire” and was made by the MN350 art team for a Minnesota Public Utilities Commission hearing while it considered whether to grant Enbridge’s certificate of need for the Line 3 replacement pipeline. Photo: Joshua Preston.

Design Visual Art

9-28-2022

Art and the Stop Line 3 Movement: Dio Cramer

Joshua Preston

1Block print created by Peng Wu during one of the Jin Paper Burning events.

Design Visual Art

9-19-2022

Letter to My Father in the Other World Explaining Four Types of U.S. Visas

Peng Wu