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1Kerry James Marshall, study for Gulf Stream, 2003-2004. Collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.

Wail Song: or how a presumed corpse practices breathing

Chaun Webster

a child born in the water may take longer to draw breath before they wake we often dream of flying, a kind of weightlessness that carries us up up up.  we know we are dreaming.  outside the world of the…

Tags: breathbreathingchildbirthoceanthe wake
1Still from The Violence of a Civilization Without Secrets, Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil, and Jackson Polys (2017).

Anti-Ethnography: The Violence of a Civilization Without Secrets

Megan Jeanne Gette

Following a program of indigenous filmmakers curated by Adam and Zack Khalil, poet M.J. Gette chews on violence in ethnography, embodiment in archive, manipulation in documentary, and positionality in language.

Tags: anthropologyarchivedecolonialethnographyNative Film
Collage with rectangular cuts of pink roses and fractal patterns over blue and white waves.
1Akiko Ostlund, Umi No Uta 1, 2022.
Performing Arts Visual Art
7-1-2022

Song of the Sea/うみのうた

Akiko Ostlund
Two people with dark hair smile at the camera, green wall behind them and the outside halves of their faces cropped from the frame.
1Xiaolu and Chris, Minneapolis, 2010. Photo: Hu Chen.
Visual Art
6-22-2022

Strange Intimate Archive

Chris Zhongtian Yuan
Two people and shopping cart stand at the end of a long aisle of big box store with tall orange shelving.
1(Not our Costco, not 100% certain if another, or other similar big box store.) Credit: Stephen Downes, Costco. Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic CC BY-NC 2.0.
Literature Performing Arts Visual Art
4-25-2022

Costco, Jayco, Yamaha, words are cheap

Moheb Soliman
Five repeats of the same brown photo of compost, with a photo of white cloud, blue sky, and white airplane wing in lower right corner.
1Image courtesy the author.
Performing Arts
4-12-2022

B Generic Appendix

Emily Gastineau
Bright blue print of kitchen faucet with two spigots on white background.
1Nancy Julia Hicks, 2022.
Performing Arts
3-23-2022

Speculative Now

Kat Purcell
A photo portrait of Trista laying on her side on a chaise lounge, lit with red lighting.
1Trista Marie, untitled, November 2020. Photo: Nanne Sorvold.
Literature Visual Art
12-22-2021

Interdependence

Trista Marie McGovern
Blue patterned blanket lies on bed with gray bedspread with glass of water beside it.
1Photo: Lisa Loew.
Performing Arts Visual Art
12-17-2021

Documenting the End for a Beginning

Anna Marie Shogren
Digitally manipulated photo of a person with dark skin floating on their back in aqua water.
Performing Arts
11-24-2021

For All Your Life

Leslie Cuyjet
Black and white photo of herbs, paper, charcoal wrapped in plastic.
1Julie Tolentino, SENDING OUT THE SMOKE FOR FUTURE FIRES: across the ether, 2021. Photo: Julie Tolentino.
Performing Arts Visual Art
11-23-2021

Re: Writing for the Walker/Mn Artists

Julie Tolentino
Colorized portrait of Ayesha Adu
Literature Moving Image
11-1-2021

Bidding Adieu to Ayesha Adu

Atlas O. Phoenix
Green tent pitched on small island in muddy riverbed, with brown leafless trees.
1One of the tents pitched in the Mississippi River bottoms during Stop Line 3 actions, spring 2021. Photo: Shanai Matteson.
Literature Visual Art
10-26-2021

River Bed

Shanai Matteson
Drawing of figure with white dress and long black hair holding onto a small train. Seven round signs float in yellow and gray background.
1Peng Wu, In Between Sleep and Wake, 2021.
Literature
10-6-2021

Meditation on Sleep

Yuko Taniguchi

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