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A hand-drawn venn-diagram of the words Series: Dance | Analog/digital | Real-time-nessGuest Editor
Kristin Van Loon
A hand-drawn venn-diagram of the words Series: Dance | Analog/digital | Real-time-nessGuest Editor
Kristin Van Loon
A hand-drawn venn-diagram of the words Series: Dance | Analog/digital | Real-time-nessGuest Editor
Kristin Van Loon
A hand-drawn venn-diagram of the words Series: Dance | Analog/digital | Real-time-nessGuest Editor
Kristin Van Loon
A hand-drawn venn-diagram of the words Series: Dance | Analog/digital | Real-time-nessGuest Editor
Kristin Van Loon
A hand-drawn venn-diagram of the words Series: Dance | Analog/digital | Real-time-nessGuest Editor
Kristin Van Loon
A hand-drawn venn-diagram of the words Series: Dance | Analog/digital | Real-time-nessGuest Editor
Kristin Van Loon
A hand-drawn venn-diagram of the words Series: Dance | Analog/digital | Real-time-nessGuest Editor
Kristin Van Loon
A hand-drawn venn-diagram of the words Series: Dance | Analog/digital | Real-time-nessGuest Editor
Kristin Van Loon
A hand-drawn venn-diagram of the words Series: Dance | Analog/digital | Real-time-nessGuest Editor
Kristin Van Loon

Kristin Van Loon is a dance artist based in Minneapolis since 1993. Van Loon grew up a competitive figure skater in Chicago suburbs, earned a BA in Geology from Colorado College and, upon graduation, formed HIJACK—a choreographic collaboration with Arwen Wilder. HIJACK dances have been seen in New York (at PS122, DTW, Dixon Place, HERE Arts Center, Chocolate Factory, La Mama, Brooklyn Studios for Dance, Catch/Movement Research Festival, 9 Herkimer, Russia, Japan, Seattle, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Chicago, Iowa, Ottawa, New Orleans and at Fusebox Festival in Austin, Bates Dance Festival in Maine, and Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation. HIJACK dances have received support from McKnight, Jerome, and Bush Foundations, Forecast Public Art, and commissions ranging from James Sewell Ballet to Barebones Puppet Theater. As a dancer, Van Loon has been awarded a McKnight Fellowship for Dance and a Sage Award for Performance. Van Loon has danced in the works of Morgan Thorson, Chris Schlichting, Chris Yon, Karen Sherman, Judith Howard, Laurie Van Wieren, among others, and was featured in the film installations “Triangle of Need” and “The Startled Faction” by Catherine Sullivan. Van Loon is a member of Steve Paxton + Lisa Nelson’s ongoing research/study group Figure Space and in 2014 she performed Steve Paxton’s duet “Smiling” at Walker Art Center and as HIJACK in Lisa Nelson’s “Endplays” at Roulette (NYC) in winter 2019. Van Loon/HIJACK teaches Contact Improvisation/Improvisation/Comp at Zenon Dance School and University of Minnesota. Independent curatorial projects include Future Interstates (as HIJACK, initiated with Body Cartography) and fARt Fest video nights (w/ Ellie Lynch). Van Loon is the Artistic Director of the Bryant Lake Bowl Theater and with Ryan Fontaine co-runs HAIR+NAILS Contemporary Art Gallery. In print: Van Loon cranks out HAIR+NAILS zine, covers studio fashion for Good Job Zine and in 2014 Contact Quarterly published the chapbook “Passing for Dance—A HIJACK Reader”. Online: WAC, Contact Quarterly, Push Me Pull You/Pew.

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Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
12-6-2019

Dance | Analog/digital | Real-time-ness

Kristin Van Loon
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Literature Performing Arts Visual Art
12-13-2019

MN Dance & the Ecstasies of Influences: Mapping Minnesota Dance Influences One Connecting Line at a Time

Michèle Steinwald
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Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
1-3-2020

This Body Is Not a Temple

Christopher Corey Allen
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Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
1-10-2020

Where Will You Dance?

Ellie Lynch
CRusch on CNBC
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Performing Arts
1-22-2020

Flow, Response, Disruption: On Dance and Finance

Colin Rusch
The image shows a layered series of photographs taken from a similar perspective. It is the same view of photographs of the Shoshone/Idaho Mountains, taken over a period of multiple days with the available light being different every time. The general blue-ish hue is from a couple of digital photographs that were taken in the early morning. The photos are also layered onto a photoshop background that is orange-red, a hue taken from one of the other in processed digital photographs. A sliver of that color is seen on the left side of the photograph. It is an exposure of the background layer of a complex image. The images are not aligned perfectly, causing the overall lines in the image to appear blurred or unsure. The layering refers to the “rolodex” of light states in the writer’s memory of the place (mentioned in the writing). The title points to landscape photography’s role in Manifest Destiny (such as the photographs of Carlton Watkins).
1Valerie Oliveiro, View from Juniper Road, Unmanifested (2020)
Literature Performing Arts Visual Art
2-7-2020

LANDLESSNESS/LESS

Valerie Oliveiro
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Literature Performing Arts Visual Art
2-18-2020

Reading/living myth: a dance with time (for Olimpia)

Genevieve DeLeon
A black-and-white drawing of a horseshoe-shaped piece of metal with a rolled-up measuring tape stuck inside showing the number 23.
1Image courtesy of the author.
Literature Performing Arts Visual Art
3-2-2020

The Kissing Number [Without Links]

Karen Sherman
A photograph of a horseshoe-shaped piece of yellow metal with a rolled-up yellow measuring tape stuck inside showing the number 23.
1Image courtesy of the author.
Literature Performing Arts Visual Art

The Kissing Number [With Links]

Karen Sherman
almost almost 24
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Literature Performing Arts Visual Art

The Kissing Number

Karen Sherman
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