MN Dance & the Ecstasies of Influences: Mapping Minnesota Dance Influences One Connecting Line at a Time
by Michèle Steinwald
Independent curator and dance producer Michèle Steinwald shares a photo essay and retrospective on her lecture/discussion series, MN Dance & the Ecstasies of Influences, featuring maps by guest editor Kristin Van Loon that illuminate the grassroots web of connections that make up parts of the Twin Cities dance communities.
Half of my family is from Québec, where license plates read, “Je me souviens.” Commonly translated as I remember, it literally means I remind myself.…
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Dance | Analog/digital | Real-time-ness
by Kristin Van Loon
Incoming guest editor, dance artist Kristin Van Loon, sketches out three overlapping themes for her series, which is defined by the things that surround the thing.
A Venn diagram. The theme for this series is defined by the things that surround the thing.…
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A Leveling and an Evening
by Alexis Palmer Zanghi
Writer Alexis Zanghi responds to works by Candice Davis, Nancy Julia Hicks, and Judith Holo Shuǐ Xiān with Dua Saleh at the recent Mn Artists Presents event, proposing how the museum might proceed through a politics of harm reduction, towards an ethics of care.
Judith Holo Shuǐ Xiān, in collaboration with Dua Saleh. hazephase{one:vogvalley. Photo by Pierre Ware for Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.…
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Getting Out Letter 9: To my forever work wife [you know who you are],
by Molly Fuller
Molly Fuller reflects on getting out of the literary publishing world and beginning a new career in nursing—and how her background in the arts lends a keen understanding of language, narrative, and audience to the medical field, and allows her to view patients as more than a constellation of chronic diseases.
To my forever work wife [you know who you are],…
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Getting Out Letter 8: Greetings from the Future, sweet eric, or the Past, by Now.
by Eric Avery
Following their previous two letters detailing their departure from art making, Eric Avery returns with an announcement: They're getting back in. Avery describes how the hiatus fundamentally transformed their creative practice, and brought their focus to repair, healing, and justice.
Greetings from the Future, sweet eric, or the Past, by Now.…
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Getting Out Letter 7: Dear Big Lake,
by Ruth Pszwaro
Ruth Pszwaro, poet and Artistic Director of the Grand Marais Art Colony, asks Lake Superior what it has to say to tourists and pilgrims, what it means to seek retreat or refuge, and what might change if we look towards a continuous journey rather than an escape.
October 23, 2019Dear Big Lake,…
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Getting Out Letter 6: Dear Moheb,
by Charles Campbell
Interdisciplinary artist Charles Campbell delivers a rant to the guest editor himself in a series of abandoned formats, interrogating whether it's possible to separate art and business, self and system, resistance and commodification at all.
Dear Moheb,…
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