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Category: Literature

Graphic illustration in yellow, green, blue, pink, and red, reading: Material for Metaphorization.
1Skyler Nowinski, Material for Metaphorization, 2023.

Material for Metaphorization

Naomi Crocker

How can the expansive potential of language illuminate interdisciplinary artistic forms?

Tags: disciplinefilminterdisciplinarylanguagemultidisciplinarytranslation
Long, rough paper with solid dark markings hung horizontally on white wall.
1Jason Moran, Run 6, 2016. Collection Walker Art Center.

don’t say spirit, say ghost

Chaun Webster

A micro-essay on how language can elude capture—sound as a door, opening to phantom geographies

Tags: dreamsghostlanguagemusicvoice
1Lady Xok at MN Original video shoot. Photo: Tania Galaviz.
Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
8-30-2018

Notebook: Locating the Folk

Rebekah Crisanta de Ybarra a.k.a. Lady Xok
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Literature Moving Image Visual Art
8-8-2018

Notebook: Illumination

Mai'a Williams
1Helen holds a polaroid of herself at the "Window to the West" streetside photo and painting exhibit at the Esmond Hotel, West Duluth, MN. Photo: Tim White.
Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
7-31-2018

Backyard Histories: Bethany Lacktorin and Nik Nerburn in Conversation

Bethany Lacktorin and Nik Nerburn
1Some questions without answers, conversational flashcards by Nicole Lavelle. Photo: Mary Welcome, 2018.
Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
7-18-2018

We Are All We Have: The Practice of Neighboring

Ashley Hanson and Mary Welcome
1Image of flooded access road from "13 Roads in Otter Tail County," a short film by Nik Nerburn.
Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
7-12-2018

Getting to the Golden Hour

Michele Anderson
1My uncle and my kids exploring an old gravel pit near Palisade.
Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
7-9-2018

Notebook: Now, Here

Shanai Matteson
1Matthew Fluharty, “Family Video”. August 18, 2016.
Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
6-18-2018

Towards a Local Practice

Matthew Fluharty
1“Mother and Child II” by Graham Crumb is reproduced under Creative Commons 3.0.
Literature
6-1-2018

My Mother and I

Fatima Camara
1Rosy Simas, transfuse: a breathing, contemplation, clearing, a transition. Photo by Carina Lofgren, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
5-23-2018

Conjuring Homelands

Nicole Asong Nfonoyim-Hara
1“Three African American women singing and walking in a street in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, the day of the Million Man March in Washington, D.C.” Photo by Duncan Spencer [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
Literature
5-9-2018

Black Joy

Michael Kleber-Diggs
1“black girl magic” by Johnny Silvercloud is licensed under Creative Commons 2.0.
Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
4-30-2018

Black Is a Country

Wendy Thompson Taiwo
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Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
4-10-2018

What Does a Black Liberation Future Look Like?

Free Black Dirt

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