From the fall of 2022 through the spring of 2023, local artist Cameron Downey had a residency within the Walker’s Ruben/Bentson Moving Image Collection. The collection acquired Downey’s video Hymn of Dust the previous year, so during the residency, Downey spent time watching films at the Walker to get to know the collection their work had recently entered. The results of that research unfold in this series of collection playlists curated by Downey, available online and on-site during gallery hours in the Walker’s 60-seat Bentson Mediatheque. Accompanying each of these curated playlists, Cameron contextualizes their selections with a written, artistic response to the works and the themes they are responding to.
Acknowledgments
Major support to preserve, digitize, and present the Ruben/Bentson Moving Image Collection is generously provided by the Bentson Foundation.
The first in a series of playlists from the Walker’s Ruben/Bentson Moving Image Collection curated by Cameron Downey explores the unique ability moving image works have to allow us to return, again and again, to the past while also being in the present.
Cameron Patricia Downey and Khari Lucas co-curate a playlist from the Ruben/Bentson Moving Image Collection and raise questions that explore the nature of documentary, performance, and portraiture in the films they chose together.
In a season of questioning diplomacy, local artist Cameron Patricia Downey curates a collection of moving image works that explore how we perform anger and aggression.
