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Art News:
9.16.09 BiWeekly
ARTmn 2009: The Precious Object
Opening Reception Friday, September 18Minneapolis Central LibrarySpeaking to the desire for the handmade in a world awash in technology, The Precious Object brings together 14 artists from locales throughout Minnesota in the inaugural exhibition of mnartists.org's ARTmn series. more >>
teens.walkerart.org Where unicorns abound and the content is brought to you by the oh-so-cool teens of the Walker Art Center's Teen Arts Council (aka WACTAC). more >>
Walker Shop Save the Date: Local to Global Jewelry Artist Mart, Saturday, November 14 more >>
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Four Score: Must-See Events
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Haegue Yang: Integrity of the Insider
Exhibition: Working with non-traditional materials such as customized venetian blinds and sensory devices including lights, infrared heaters, scent emitters, and fans, Haegue Yang constructs complex and nuanced installations that collapse the space between the concrete and the fleeting. Opens September 24 more >>
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Raimund Hoghe
Bolero Variations
Dance: Raimund Hoghe's uncategorizable work is driven by Pier Paolo Pasolini's words "Throw your body into battle." Hoghe's physical limitations due to severe scoliosis, paired with his pristine and deceptively minimal choreography, reveal what the artist calls "the power and beauty of music and confrontation with one's own body." September 18-19 more >> | tickets >>
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The Quick and the Dead
Exhibition: Your last chance to see an electromagnetic energy field, 2 blocks of ice, 9 jars of hair, light from last week, 3 mirrors, 3 wristwathces (1 broken), 1 longer sunset, things forgotten and not yet known, and other work from 53 international artists. Exhibition closes September 27 more >>
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Micachu and the Shapes + Dessa
The leader of Micachu and the Shapes is Mica Levi, a 22-year-old, brilliant, style-smashing Brit. To her ears everything is fair game--streaming distorted loops, skiffle riffs, and grime beats through hooky hyperkinetic arrangements. Pitchfork calls the group "the freshest thing to come along so far in 2009." September 23 more >> | tickets >>
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Other Events
Premieres: First Look: No Impact Man
Film
September 16, FREE Post-screening Q&A with Colin Beavan and Laura Gabbert
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Artist Talk: Paul Chan
Lecture
September 17, FREE
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BLK JKS + Global Roots Opening Party
Music
September 24, Cedar Cultural Center
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Dig Deeper
 Haegue Yang: Integrity of the Insider
- Doryun Chong
I first fell under the spell of Haegue Yang's work while visiting Korea three years ago. It was late summer, and I was on a research trip preparing for the Walker's 2007 exhibition Brave New Worlds, which I co-curated with Yasmil Raymond. A fellow traveler had received an announcement of Yang's solo exhibition in the port city of Incheon, about an hour from Seoul by commuter train. It was an unusual location for a contemporary art exhibition, given the concentration of most of the country's art and cultural institutions in Seoul. Yet our interest had been piqued, and despite our tight schedule, we decided to devote half a day to make the trek.
A taxi ride followed the train journey, and then we found ourselves in a sparsely inhabited residential area near the harbor. A simple map on the announcement card directed us down narrow alleyways to an old house that clearly had been long unoccupied. There was no reception desk, no attendant guarding the "exhibition." In the courtyard stood a rusty but working refrigerator, whose door displayed a message of welcome, inviting visitors to look around, have a beverage, and rest. Inside the house, my companions and I first saw a series of modestly scaled rooms cloaked in peeling, moldy wallpaper. The floor had collapsed in places, and in one room, the ceiling had caved in. We began to notice a presence--not people, not ghosts, but objects that seemed to go about their own business in this hideout. In a corner a cluster of candy-colored origami constructions was illuminated by a low-hanging lightbulb, while elsewhere a spotlight highlighted another silvery, solitary origami piece. A clothesdrying rack was spread open as if doing a jumping jack, covered in a powder-blue cloth, and tangles of tiny LED lights were gathered in front of a mirror, as if gazing at their own reflection. . . .
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