Moving Image artist-in-residence Cameron Patricia Downey invites multidisciplinary artist, musician, and moving image curator Khari Lucas (Contour) to Minneapolis for a special event and partnership with the Walker and Juxtaposition Arts. At the Walker, the duo will explore the Ruben/Bentson Moving Image Collection and create a moving image playlist together. Come experience the results of their collaboration.
This curated playlist will be shared online in June and remain available and free to the public during gallery hours.
Copresented with Juxtaposition Arts.
Bios
Cameron Patricia Downey is an anti-disciplinary artist born and raised in North Minneapolis, whose work oscillates between photography, film, body, sculpture, curation, and otherwise. Seeing instruction in the incidental, the precarious, and the misremembered, their work strives to archive, unfurl, make-altar-of, and bring fantasy to the Blues of Black life and relation. Downey graduated from Columbia University in 2021, with a double concentration in visual art and environmental science. Their art has been exhibited by HAIR+NAILS, Minneapolis; Aronson Gallery, New York; Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin (2021); Engage Projects, Chicago (2021–2022); as part of Midway Contemporary Art’s Off-Site program (2022); M+B Gallery, Los Angeles (2023); and Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (2023). They are in residence with the Walker’s Moving Image department from fall 2022 through spring 2023.
Khari Lucas is a songwriter/musician (most often releasing work under the alias Contour), scoring composer, writer/poet, and occasional programmer in both digital and real space. Grounded in Black musical traditions (i.e., jazz, soul, blues), his work follows in the footsteps of artist-expressors throughout history and seeks to honor these traditions while carrying them through the present and into the future. His work offers provocations, invitations, and tools for Black listeners to contextualize their own emotions and experiences. His songwriting explores a range of themes, including grief, love, violence, labor, and the inner emotional landscape at large.
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