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The Network of Cumulative Art, Radical
Midwest Culture Corridor, and Art of This present:
Songs of Returning, Both Silent and Aloud
(The Domestic Struggle Part Threee)
August 23-September 7
at
ART OF THIS
3506 Nicollet Ave., Minneapolis
www.artofthis.net
612-721-4105
Opening Reception August 23
How do we touch the land and how does it
touch us? There is a long, vibrant history of so-called
“back to the land movements.” But in fact we
have never left the land. We have always been dependent
on the land—and the people who work closely with
it—for our survival. When we fill the tank, flip a
switch, open a bag of chips, sit quietly in a comfy chair, or
get on-line—even though we are largely unconscious of
it—we are in relationship to the land. We are
constantly touching the land and it is constantly touching us
back.
Songs of Returning is an occasion to appraise different
relationships to the land. It is an opportunity to
imagine how stolen land can be given back, how people are
coerced with physical and economic violence to relate to the
land in ways they would not choose for themselves. And it
is an effort to make a home, nurturing, imaginative places for
speech and acts that begin to erode the colonial pathologies
that pervade in our culture—our relationships to the
land.
While the list of participants will never
be complete, several cultural workers with intimate connections
to different parts of the Midwest are contributing to the
exhibition, as well as coinciding events, publications, and
initiatives. Among the contributors are:
Let’s Remake! (Bonnie Fortune and Brett Bloom,
www.letsremake.info), Dan S. Wang (prop-press.vox.com),
Paul Durand, Jacob Chistopher Hammes, Aaron
Hughes(www.aarhughes.org), Little Bluff Farm, Courtney Moran,
Mike Wolf, Vanessa Smith, Midwest Radical Culture Corridor
(radicalmidwest.blogspot.com).
——-Preliminary Calendar of
Events——-
Open Gallery Hours
Noon to 5pm Saturdays (Aug30 and Sept 6)
and Sundays (Aug 24, Aug 31,
and Sept 7)
3pm to 8pm Tuesday Aug 26
3pm to 8pm Thursday September 4
or call Mike at 773-368-5875 to make an
appointment
----Event Calendar----
All these events are at Art of This, 3506
Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Other events will occur, keep your eyes and
ears peeled.
August 23, 7pm to 11pm
Opening Reception
August 24, noon to 5
open hours
August 26
3pm to 8pm Open hours
8pm Free Video Screening
"The World According to
Monsanto"
DVD, 90 minutes
A documentary by French writer, film maker
Marie-Monique Robin that
"pieces together the story of
Monsanto, focusing on a look at its
domination in the field of agricultural
products."
Snacks! (bring drinks to share)
August 29, 7pm
ARP! Release Party
August 30, noon to 5
Open hours
August 31
Noon - Brunchluck
Potluck brunch, hang out, share food,
socialize, read the paper, look at art.
3pm - presentation at 3pm
September 1, noon
Anti-War march
meet at the Capital
September 2, noon
Peavey Plaza, Minneapolis
BBQ lunch with Alimentary Tropism and Red76
September 4, 8pm
Free Video Screening
Threee Landscape Videos
Snacks! (bring drinks to share)
*Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage
DVD, 19 minutes, Directed by Heather Rogers
A brief history of garbage and landfills in
north america
*Manoomin: A Minnesota Way of Life
DVD, 22 minutes, Directed by Teresa Koneche
A short documentary on the effort to defend
wild rice from patenting
and maintain the spritual and cultural
sustenance it provides.
*The Land Connection
DVD, 11 Minutes
A documentary about the history of the rise
of organic farming in part
of Central Illinois.
September 6
Noon - Brunchluck
Potluck brunch, hang out, share food,
socialize, read the paper, look at art.
3pm - Domestic Struggle Part Threee
Travelog
Mike Wolf will present a travelog, with
pictures and anecdotes about
his Midwestern driftings over the past
three years.
September 7th,
Noon to 5 - Open hours
8pm - Closing Bonfire: Burning Monoculture
in Effigy
location tba
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