“I was trying to make a visual and sonic poem, a poem with visual rhymes,” said Meredith Monk while revisiting her early performance, 16 Millimeter Earrings, first presented at the Judson Memorial Church in New York in 1966. In this interview with Siri Engberg (Senior Curator and Director of Exhibitions Management), Monk reflects on the work’s genesis as a performance, its transformation into an installation for its presentation in the 1998 Walker exhibition Art Performs Life, and its acquisition by the Walker in 2010.
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