Intersection: Trisha Brown and Robert Rauschenberg, Glacial Decoy (1979)
What led to the first theatrical dance collaboration between Trisha Brown and Robert Rauschenberg? We dive into the history of this unique creative partnership.
Marking the 45-year anniversary of Pauline Oliveros's Cheap Commissions, historic video footage explores Oliveros creating original works for anyone who approached her in Downtown Minneapolis.
Marking her newest Performing Arts Commission, we look back at Eiko Otake 44th years of collaboration with the Walker through behind-the-scenes images, interviews, and video documentation.
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Exploring the often-fraught relationship between artists and categorization, this series of original articles considers the limits and potentials for rethinking the ways artists and their work are classified.
Exploring today’s artists who make work about and within conflict, this series examines how the clash between opposing viewpoints is shaping art and our world.
Spells are Called Spells for a Reason: Alex Tatarsky and Sad Boys in Harpy Land
In the lead-up to presenting their work at the Walker, Tatarsky sat down with artist and writer Amy Ching-Yan Lam to discuss the power of language, Anna Karenina, and the role of the artist.
Reflecting on the musicians joining him in Minneapolis as part of Exploding Star Orchestra, Rob Mazurek explores what these members of Chicago’s improvised music scene bring to his music.
Intersection: Trisha Brown and Robert Rauschenberg, Glacial Decoy (1979)
What led to the first theatrical dance collaboration between Trisha Brown and Robert Rauschenberg? We dive into the history of this unique creative partnership.
I Didn’t Go to Art School: Seth Bogart on Queer Punx, Music, and Art
As he gears up to embark on a North American tour with Hunx and His Punx, multidisciplinary artist and musician Seth Bogart sat down to chat about queercore, working with John Waters, and why he is glad he didn’t go to art school.
In this final installment of a trio of interviews with Wen Hui and Eiko Otake, the artists discuss how their differing backgrounds came together to create What is War.
We All Have War in Our Bodies: Eiko Otake on What is War
In this second part of a trilogy of interviews, Eiko Otake traces her journey from the 1960s anti-war protests to the creation of their newest project What is War.
In this first part of a trilogy of interviews, Chinese artist Wen Hui traces her journey from the Chinese Cultural Revolution to the creation of What is War.
Marking the 45-year anniversary of Pauline Oliveros's Cheap Commissions, historic video footage explores Oliveros creating original works for anyone who approached her in Downtown Minneapolis.
Marking her newest Performing Arts Commission, we look back at Eiko Otake 44th years of collaboration with the Walker through behind-the-scenes images, interviews, and video documentation.
Collapsing Cinema and Stage: Autumn Knight Live at the Walker
In the lead up to their new improvisational work that blurs live performance and film, Autumn Knight discusses their history with drama therapy, the power of group dynamics, improvisation, and nothingness.
What is the Problem in Our Society? Jaha Koo on Cuckoo
The day after the South Korean president declared martial law, artist Jaha Koo sat down to discuss how art, performance, and hacking rice cookers can address the inescapable past that casts shadows across our lives today.
You’re Freer to Break Traditions If You Don’t Know Them: Edgar Arceneaux on Boney Manilli
Edgar Arceneaux discusses his career in visual arts, Milli Vanilli, and a family connection to the controversial Disney film Song of the South that led to his reimagining the stage musical.
This collection of conversations and dialogues among practitioners, scholars, and thinkers explores the current landscape and lasting legacy of Black American Dance.
On the heels of a global pandemic, racial reckoning, climate crisis, and the threats to democracy, this series considers the various ways today’s performing artists create work that serves artistic and therapeutic goals.
Living Collections Catalogues offer media-rich essays on broader themes as well as in-depth investigations of specific works of art.
Exploring the use of humor as a form of resistance across today’s art and design practices.
To celebrate Zorn’s seventh decade, the Walker presents a series of well-wishes from over 70 collaborators, colleagues, and friends who weigh in on the many facets of this versatile artist’s life and work.
On September 28 and 29, 2015 the Walker Art Center hosted an invitational curatorial research convening focused on pressing areas of inquiry facing the field of curating contemporary performance.
Through a single interface, an array of voices are invited to respond to pressing questions that surround the work of making, presenting, understanding, and living with art today.
Straight from the mind of polymath musician/artist Jason Moran comes a new kind of music publication.
UNCOVERED focuses on the relationship between music and design.
