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Art storage, with many framed 2D pieces hung in dense racks, with chair, ladder, concrete floor, and fluorescent lighting.
1Art storage, Walker Art Center. Photo: Gene Pittman.

Sowing Memory: Collecting Art and Saving Seeds

Ian Hanesworth

Divergent practices of collecting shed light on the connection between culture and agriculture, how collections can both serve and oppose capitalism, and how collections might revitalize our understandings of cultural value and sovereignty

Tags: agricultureart and sciencecapitalismcollectionConservationMemorymuseumsplantsvalue
Collage with fragment of green netting, wilted petals, green metallic candy wrapper, and strip reading: Inviting... enduring...
1Nailah Taman, Not Collaging #1, 2022.

What I’m Doing When I’m Not Writing

Aegor Ray

On fallow time, cycles of making and not-making, and what the body invites in while holding language at a distance

Tags: bodydreamsgriefpandemicprocessrest
Person with light skin and gray hair pushes shopping cart down city sidewalk.
1Photo: Steve Ozone.
Visual Art
10-31-2022

Steve Ozone: The Story Behind the Lens

Youa Vang
Feet of person pushing dry mop on shiny floor, with glass door behind.
Moving Image
10-24-2022

Measuring the Invisible: Labor and Origin

Stevie Ada Klaark
Two women and two children exiting a trailer painted turquoise with a pink stripe and orange mailbox.
1Cecilia Cornejo Sotelo, The Wandering House, 2019. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Arya Misra.
Moving Image Visual Art
10-14-2022

Home as Portal: The Wandering House

Nicole Asong Nfonoyim-Hara
Illustration of stand-up comic with dark skin and glasses playing keyboard in front of audience, bathed in purple light.
1Talthau Lo, 2022.
Performing Arts
10-3-2022

Ha!: On Comedy, Performance, and Laughing for the Right Reasons

Devohn Bland
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
In a kids bedroom with stuffed animals an animated condom filled with red hearts floats in the air
1Jordan Wolfson, Still from Raspberry Poser, 2012. © Jordan Wolfson. Courtesy the artist, David Zwirner and Sadie Coles HQ, London. Photo: Jonathan Smith.
Visual Art
9-23-2022

The Vampire Is a Virus Is Desire: The Dark Blue and Other Posthuman Encounters

Christina Schmid
Hands holding up print with red design and gold seal above.
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
1Experimental Sensory Collective v3, March 2022. Photo courtesy REM5.
Design Visual Art
9-14-2022

Apps as Collaborative World-Building

Sanaphay Rattanavong
Person stands on dirt path and leans back underneath tall street lamp at night.
Literature
9-7-2022

Amir Locke from the View of a Kaleidoscope: A Prayer

Tikkun Bambara
Person wearing glasses looks into the viewfinder of a Bolex camera pointed at the viewer.
1Sam Hoolihan, 2022. Photo: Ray Shehadeh.
Moving Image Visual Art
8-29-2022

The Return of Analog Film in a Digital Age

Ray Shehadeh
A person stands to the side of an industrial post and spinning chain in a white-walled gallery corner
1Liz Larner, Corner Basher, 1988. Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann Collection, Herzogenrath and Berlin. Photo by Eric Mueller, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
Visual Art
8-19-2022

Held in a Corner: Mater(iality) and Mater(nality) in Liz Larner’s Corner Pieces

Sheila Dickinson
Performer with bleached blonde hair and white makeup kneels with head back in front of drum set, with purple and blue lighting above.
1Performer at a Dark Energy event. Courtesy of Dark Energy. Photo: Caleb Timmerman.
Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
8-8-2022

No Approval Required: Twin Cities Alternative Art Spaces

Jake Yuzna

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