Target Free Thursday Nights in September Highlighted by Artist Talks with Haegue Yang and Paul Chan
The Walker Art Center’s Target Free Thursday Nights in September are highlighted by two artist talks, including an opening-day talk with Haegue Yang (September 24, 7 pm), the subject of the Walker’s latest exhibition, Haegue Yang: Integrity of the Insider. From mundane objects and materials such as venetian blinds, infrared heaters, newspaper, and even a drying rack, Berlin/Seoul–based Haegue Yang creates all-enveloping installations and enigmatic photographs, videos, and sculptures. Poetry, politics, and human emotion inform Yang’s practice—and its relationship to the everyday. The exhibition surveys the artist’s work from the past decade. On September 17, at 7 pm, artist Paul Chan, whose work is currently on view in The Quick and the Dead, will discuss ways that his art engages such fundamental topics as war, politics, religion, philosophy, and desire.
Also in September, McGuire Senior Curator of Performing Arts Philip Bither presents a preview of the Walker’s upcoming 2009–2010 Performing Arts season (September 10, 7 pm). Clips, music, and surprise guests, live and digital, help celebrate the kickoff of what promises to be an exciting year of contemporary performance from around the world.
Sound Bites gallery talks are offered throughout the month on select Thursday evenings at 6:30 and 7 pm. Sound Bites illuminate an artist or work of art from the Walker’s world-class collection or one of its special exhibitions.
Target Free Thursday Nights
September 3, 10, 17, 24
Galleries open 5–9; special events follow.
Free
Thursday, September 3
Galleries open 5–9 pm
Thursday, September 10
Sound Bites: Trisha Donnelly in The Quick and the Dead, 6:30 and 7 pm
Meet in the Bazinet Garden Lobby
Contemporary art and artists are the focus of these 15-minute gallery conversations led by Walker tour guides. Each highlights selected artworks, artists, or themes that serve as topics for illuminating discussions.
Performing Arts 2009–2010 Season Preview, 7 pm
McGuire Theater
Join Philip Bither, McGuire Senior Curator of Performing Arts, for his annual sneak peek at the upcoming season. From experimental and traditional dance to an explosion of intriguing new rock and pop music to adventurous theater that includes a copresentation with the Guthrie Theater to Out There, discuss the more than 25 events that promise an exciting year. The evening features clips, music, and surprise guests, live and digital.
Thursday, September 17
Sound Bites: Tour Guide Choice: Minneapolis Sculpture Garden Favorite, 6:30 and 7 pm
Meet in the Bazinet Garden Lobby
Contemporary art and artists are the focus of these 15-minute gallery conversations led by Walker tour guides. Each highlights selected artworks, artists, or themes that serve as topics for illuminating discussions.
Artist Talk: Paul Chan, 7 pm
Cinema
Free tickets available at the Bazinet Garden Lobby desk from 6 pm
Paul Chan’s art and activism take a number of forms, among them a recent production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot in two New Orleans neighborhoods; The People’s Guide to the Republican National Convention, a free map distributed in New York during the 2004 convention; and the ambitious The 7 Lights (2005–2007), a series of large-scale digital projections and drawings that compose a hallucinated version of the seven days of creation. The final work from this series is on view in the exhibition The Quick and the Dead. Join Chan for a talk on ways that his art engages such fundamental topics as war, politics, religion, philosophy, and desire.
Thursday, September 24
Sound Bites: Pierre Huyghe, Wind Chime (after “Dream”), 6:30 and 7 pm
Meet in the Bazinet Garden Lobby
Contemporary art and artists are the focus of these 15-minute gallery conversations led by Walker tour guides. Each highlights selected artworks, artists, or themes that serve as topics for illuminating discussions.
Opening-day Artist Talk: Haegue Yang, 7 pm
Cinema
Free tickets available at the Bazinet Garden Lobby desk from 6 pm
Haegue Yang choreographs series of sensory experiences using window blinds, air conditioners, heat lamps, and other everyday materials in abstract, complex installations. The artist discusses her process in a conversation with exhibition curator Doryun Chong.