March 2010
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Thinking About the Future, and Futurefarmers
Last week at WBSC we were host to a small group of people, including Amy Franceschini, Michael Swaine and Daniel Allende of Futurefarmers. They’ll be here in the Twin Cities in August as part of the Walker Art Center’s Open Field program, and this little get-together was a chance for them to connect with a few creative people who live here.
Through my conversations with Amy and...
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“Go right from the inspiration — the vision — to actually making it....”
– Less Talk More Rock, a visual essay by Superbrothers.
Even though it’s directed at those who make videogames, this fantastic little word and art piece is full of advice all makers of things should take to heart.
C.H.K.
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Someone Should Take A Picture
Last night we were part of a small group that Tiffany Hockin of ARP! / Art Review & Preview brought together at her home to talk about independent art galleries and creative spaces, places, and projects in the Twin Cities. The conversation started with a simple question that each of us answered in turn:
What’s working? What’s not working?
There was some overlap in terms of what...
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@ at the MoMA →
MoMA has acquired the @ symbol into its collection:
It relies on the assumption that physical possession of an object as a requirement for an acquisition is no longer necessary, and therefore it sets curators free to tag the world and acknowledge things that “cannot be had” — because they are too big (buildings, Boeing 747’s, satellites), or because they are in the air and belong to everybody and...
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“Winkleman Gallery is doing its part to keep the conversation on the boil with an...”
– The New York Times reviews #class, an exhibition with similar themes and methods to those we’ll be bringing to Intermedia Arts in June with We Work Here.
Similar themes, but a very different conversation, partly a result of our own location (in a relatively small city, in the midwest) as...
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“The law locks up the man or woman,
Who steals the goose from off the common....”
– English protest chant, circa 1600, to object against the British Monarchy’s habit of building fences around and on land previously public, common land.
Peter Linebaugh references this poem at the end of a meandering, but ultimately worthwhile, lecture on “Magna Carta and the...
Museums & the Creative Renaissance
In preparation for talk I gave this morning to my colleagues at the Bell Museum, I went back to a paper published last year by the American Association of Museums on the future of museums. This paper is full of stuff that most of you probably know intuitively or have been told a thousand times already: The cultural landscape is changing, and it’s changing fast.
The paper is definitely...
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Some thoughts on FEAST Minneapolis
We left last night’s FEAST event feeling really proud of the community where we live and work. Every one of last night’s proposals was worthy of support, and we wish the artists behind those projects luck in finding the support they need. I think something is happening in Minneapolis right now, and we are very happy to be able to participate.
WHAT I LOVED ABOUT THE EVENT:
The space...
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WPA Inspired Fonts
Generously available free of charge by their authors.
※ WPA Gothic and WPA Gothic Deco by Stewf
※ NPS 1935 by E. V. Norat II
※ 8 beautiful handrawn fonts from Zapato Productions Interdimensional
Should you ever find yourself in need of such beautiful things. A few of these will surely end up finding their way into design work for We Work Here: A Conversation on Art, Labor and Economics in...
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Our Own Hidden Museum? →
West Bank Social Center is a project that we started last summer with a group of friends. It’s been a headache on some occasions, and on others an excellent laboratory for the sort of work we hope to do in and outside of more traditional institutions.
Early on in this project we spoke with Nina Simon on the telephone and talked mostly about what makes a place like ours work. I said, “Well it...
“In a world of over-advertised experiences, understatement can go a long way.”
– Nina Simon, Secret Gardens, Hidden Museums.
Shanai and I were recently having beers with a friend who owns a bar here in town. His place has a great location but sits on a street with some pretty direct competition. What we’ve noticed is that these establishments are caught in a downward...
WatchJohn Bielenberg, founder of Project M, speaking about “thinking wrong” at MCAD. Project M (the organization that initiated PieLab) is part of a growing chorus of voices that are pushing design thinking for social innovation. Sent to us by our friend Taylor.
C.H.K.
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weworkhere.tumblr.com/projects →
A working compendium of our projects: past, present, and future.
Here you’ll find a short description of each project as well as links to full proposal and grant texts, ways to support our work, and relevant websites or resources. This page will be updated regularly!
C.H.K.
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Support our upcoming exhibit about art, labor and... →
For those of you who can’t make it to FEAST this Saturday to vote for our proposed project, and for those who want to support the broader We Work Here exhibition at Intermedia Arts June 5th- 23rd, we’ve set-up a campaign page on GiveMN with all of the necessary project details.
If you haven’t used the GiveMN yet, it’s really simple! Your donation is tax deductible and goes directly to the project...
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The return of Salon Saloon.
Last year we worked with Minneapolis arts writer and performer Andy Sturdevant on a little monthly program called Salon Saloon. Maybe some of you recall?
We did a short run of four themed shows featuring some of the Twin Cities most interesting creative people - including two ice carvers, a suburban landscape painter, a writer or three, some great musicians, a cook who made sausage on stage and a...
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hitRECord →
Brainchild of Justin Gordon-Levitt, hitRECord is an open community of artists that collaborate on media projects through their website. Once a piece of work is good enough, Justin uses his position in the traditional entertainment industry to shop it around and find way to turn a profit. If successful, hitRECord LLC takes half, the other half is divvied up amongst the contributing artists in a...
