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10/30/2009
Karen Gysin, 612.375.7651
karen.gysin@walkerart.org
Local Electro Duo Lookbook Highlights Walker After Hours Party to Celebrate Opening of Event Horizon and Benches & Binoculars Exhibitions
The infectious sound and sonic presence of local electro duo Lookbook highlight a Walker Art Center After Hours Preview Party from 9 pm–12 midnight on Friday, November 20. Celebrating the opening of Event Horizon and Benches & Binoculars, two exhibitions reflecting the Walker’s unique range of artistic disciplines, the evening, sponsored by Target, also features cameo appearances by Afro-Cuban percussionist Dafnis Prieto and Trisha Brown dancer Judith Sanchez Ruiz; tunes by DJ Scott Stulen; screenings of the Kenneth Anger film Scorpio Rising; an art-making activity where visitors become the curators; cash bars; Wolfgang Puck appetizers; and Party People Pictures to immortalize the evening. Tickets are $35 ($25 Walker members), and are available at walkerart.org or by calling 612.375.7600 (includes one complimentary drink). Tickets are limited; advance purchase recommended.
Event Horizon showcases the Walker’s cross-disciplinary programming and holdings, uniting painting, sculpture, and photography with film, performance, and video in a changing presentation that will unfold over a nearly three-year period. Benches & Binoculars offers a lively and purposely overwhelming chronicle of recent art history—from local discoveries to renowned masterpieces—raising questions about changing tastes over time and what it means to be “contemporary.”
Walker After Hours/Preview Party
Friday, November 20, 9 pm–12 midnight
$35 ($25 Walker members)
Tickets: 612.375.7600 or visit walkerart.org
New members may choose one free ticket for joining, while tickets remain.
Exhibition Preview:
Event Horizon and Benches & Binoculars>
Galleries 1, 2, 3; Linda and Lawrence Perlman Gallery
Event Horizon showcases the Walker’s remarkable holdings of postwar art in the context of the events that produced them. With a bit of serendipity, a touch of aesthetic friction, and a profusion of paintings, Benches & Binoculars features unpredictable juxtapositions and side-by-side pairings of more than 120 works.
Art Activity
You’re the Curator
Star Tribune Foundation Art Lab, 9:15–11:30 pm
Actively curate your own collection of Walker Art Center art and plan for the installation.
Screening: Scorpio Rising (1963)
Directed by Kenneth Anger
Lecture Room, 9:30 and 10:30 pm
Anger’s salacious classic film pairs pop songs from the early ‘60s with clips from discarded films layered over candy colored hep-cat rebel bikers gathering for a wild blowout party. The result is s cacophony of chaos and lurid characters from avant-garde cinema’s notorious master. 1963, 16mm, 29 minutes.
DJ Scott Stulen
Cargill Lounge, 9:15–11:30 pm
Performance: Lookbook
Gallery 8, 10–11:45 pm
From a recent Pitchfork review: “A Minneapolis-based electro duo, Lookbook make songs that recall sparkly neon nights, heavy blue eye shadow, and electric-shock perms. But despite indulging in the superficial trappings of the era, neither vocalist Maggie Morrison nor multi-instrumentalist Grant Cutler seems content with exclusivity.”
Performance: Dafnis Prieto and Judith Sanchez Ruiz
Burnet Gallery, 10 and 11 pm
Stop by the Burnet Gallery and catch an improvisational duet by renowned Afro-Cuban drummer/composer Dafnis Prieto and (Trisha Brown) dancer Judith Sanchez Ruiz. These brief, alternately propulsive and meditative pieces investigate the dynamic interplay of dance and music.
Party People Pictures
Cargill Lounge, 9 pm–12 midnight
Stop by the Party People Photo Booth to document your experience, then find your face on the wall. View all photos at www.flickr.com/groups/walkerafterhours.
Walker After Hours sponsored by Target.
Event Horizon is made possible by generous support from Judy Dayton and Elizabeth Redleaf. Additional support is provided by Joan and John Nolan, Frances and Frank Wilkinson, and Miriam and Erwin Kelen. Media partner Mpls. St. Paul Magazine.
Walker Art Center programming is made possible by its Premier Partners: General Mills, Target, and Star Tribune.
Karen Gysin, 612.375.7651
karen.gysin@walkerart.org
Local Electro Duo Lookbook Highlights Walker After Hours Party to Celebrate Opening of Event Horizon and Benches & Binoculars Exhibitions
The infectious sound and sonic presence of local electro duo Lookbook highlight a Walker Art Center After Hours Preview Party from 9 pm–12 midnight on Friday, November 20. Celebrating the opening of Event Horizon and Benches & Binoculars, two exhibitions reflecting the Walker’s unique range of artistic disciplines, the evening, sponsored by Target, also features cameo appearances by Afro-Cuban percussionist Dafnis Prieto and Trisha Brown dancer Judith Sanchez Ruiz; tunes by DJ Scott Stulen; screenings of the Kenneth Anger film Scorpio Rising; an art-making activity where visitors become the curators; cash bars; Wolfgang Puck appetizers; and Party People Pictures to immortalize the evening. Tickets are $35 ($25 Walker members), and are available at walkerart.org or by calling 612.375.7600 (includes one complimentary drink). Tickets are limited; advance purchase recommended.
Event Horizon showcases the Walker’s cross-disciplinary programming and holdings, uniting painting, sculpture, and photography with film, performance, and video in a changing presentation that will unfold over a nearly three-year period. Benches & Binoculars offers a lively and purposely overwhelming chronicle of recent art history—from local discoveries to renowned masterpieces—raising questions about changing tastes over time and what it means to be “contemporary.”
Walker After Hours/Preview Party
Friday, November 20, 9 pm–12 midnight
$35 ($25 Walker members)
Tickets: 612.375.7600 or visit walkerart.org
New members may choose one free ticket for joining, while tickets remain.
Exhibition Preview:
Event Horizon and Benches & Binoculars>
Galleries 1, 2, 3; Linda and Lawrence Perlman Gallery
Art Activity
You’re the Curator
Star Tribune Foundation Art Lab, 9:15–11:30 pm
Actively curate your own collection of Walker Art Center art and plan for the installation.
Screening: Scorpio Rising (1963)
Directed by Kenneth Anger
Lecture Room, 9:30 and 10:30 pm
Anger’s salacious classic film pairs pop songs from the early ‘60s with clips from discarded films layered over candy colored hep-cat rebel bikers gathering for a wild blowout party. The result is s cacophony of chaos and lurid characters from avant-garde cinema’s notorious master. 1963, 16mm, 29 minutes.
DJ Scott Stulen
Cargill Lounge, 9:15–11:30 pm
Performance: Lookbook
Gallery 8, 10–11:45 pm
From a recent Pitchfork review: “A Minneapolis-based electro duo, Lookbook make songs that recall sparkly neon nights, heavy blue eye shadow, and electric-shock perms. But despite indulging in the superficial trappings of the era, neither vocalist Maggie Morrison nor multi-instrumentalist Grant Cutler seems content with exclusivity.”
Performance: Dafnis Prieto and Judith Sanchez Ruiz
Burnet Gallery, 10 and 11 pm
Stop by the Burnet Gallery and catch an improvisational duet by renowned Afro-Cuban drummer/composer Dafnis Prieto and (Trisha Brown) dancer Judith Sanchez Ruiz. These brief, alternately propulsive and meditative pieces investigate the dynamic interplay of dance and music.
Party People Pictures
Cargill Lounge, 9 pm–12 midnight
Stop by the Party People Photo Booth to document your experience, then find your face on the wall. View all photos at www.flickr.com/groups/walkerafterhours.
Walker After Hours sponsored by Target.
Event Horizon is made possible by generous support from Judy Dayton and Elizabeth Redleaf. Additional support is provided by Joan and John Nolan, Frances and Frank Wilkinson, and Miriam and Erwin Kelen. Media partner Mpls. St. Paul Magazine.
Walker Art Center programming is made possible by its Premier Partners: General Mills, Target, and Star Tribune.
Related Links
Event Horizon After Hours pdf
http://media.walkerart.org/pdf/2009/After Hours Event Horizon_B&B release.pdf [PDF]