But, once I did, I immediately came across an entry regarding John Waters' project, and it sounds hilariously awesome. Waters' is reimagining the center's current exhibition, Event Horizon- creating a "curatorial intervention". He will be "Imagining the galleries as rental apartments, Waters sets up relationships among nearly 80 “roommate” artworks that may be friendly or belligerent, unruly or reserved, supportive or indifferent. In exploring the tensions and connections among disparate works in the Walker’s wide-ranging collection..." (from here).
In addition:
- He will also be creating a sound installation in the art center's parking lot, featuring sounds of crashing cars and squealing tires.
- Will document and display every financial transaction associated with his curatorial intervention.
- And he will be selling limited edition photographs of food scraps from the art center's cafe.
I love the idea of the art pieces being tenants in the museum. Considering the work as being roommates allows for a whole new conversation about what work can be shown together. Instead of arranging work by time period, medium, style, or regional qualities, Waters has created a way of imagining a dialogue between pieces that may not ordinarily be place together.
You can read Waters' own description here.
I would love to make the trip to Minneapolis to see this. Who's down? Road trip!
thanks for calling this one out, jess. i love the concept. i'm picturing galleries as communities, and each community has a unique dynamic and tension both within itself, and with other communities that border it. it really shifts one's thinking about how things are arranged and what they mean within the entire museum, and their individual spaces. love it!
ReplyDeletethe walker rocks. too bad it has to be all the way up in minnesota. :)
Would make a great art reality show :D
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