What does research mean for artists and their work? Does it take the form of academic writing or rebel against it? Is it an Internet search or gathering of personal experiences? Does it form truth or question if such a thing is possible?
Exploring the myriad of ways research is utilized and rejected by artists, the series Artistic Research? opens questions about how artists engage with, question, and produce research.
In the lead up to opening of the exhibition, Ways of Knowing, Walker curator Rosario Güiraldes sat down with art critic Claire Bishop, artist and writer Nicolás Guagnini, and curator Cuauhtémoc Medina for a roundtable discussion around the themes of artists, research, and knowledge.
In conjunction with Kandis Williams’s first museum survey at the Walker, curator Taylor Jasper explores Williams’ deeply researched practice and its emerging visions of liberation.
In the lead up to their first major museum survey, co-organized by the Walker Art Center and the Whitney Museum of American Art, Christine Sun Kim sat down with the exhibition curators to discuss how musical notation, infographics, and language—both in her native American Sign Language (ASL) and written English– impact her wide-ranging approach to art-making.
How can one understand places through wandering? Artist Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk/Pechanga) explores this an more in their work Visions of an Island.
