The Walker Art Center’s Target Free Thursday Nights in January are highlighted by Your Future in Our Hands by artists Piotr Szyhalski and Richard Shelton, an interpretive activity designed to help people determine their resolutions for the coming new year, January 12, 7–9 pm. On the same night, the lecture Divination and Personal Destiny, led by Paul O’Brien and Rick Levine, offers an in-depth look at the meeting of new media technology and the ancient arts of divination: computer assisted astrology, numerology, I-Ching, and tarot. Other highlights in January include gallery tours, screenings of films by Andy Warhol (December 19 and 26, 7:30 pm), and Just Like Andy, an Art Lab activity inspired by the exhibition ANDY WARHOL/SUPERNOVA: Stars, Deaths, and Disasters, 1962–1964 (January 5, 12, 19, 26, 6–9 pm).
Target Free Thursday Nights are made possible by Target. Additional support provided by The Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Target Free Thursday Nights
January 5, 12, 19, 26
Galleries open 5–9 pm; special events follow.
Free
Thursday, January 5
Some Assembly Required tour, 6 pm
Art Activity: Just Like Andy
Star Tribune Foundation Art Lab, 6–9 pm
In the 1960s, Andy Warhol found images of current events and superstars in the daily newspaper for his silk-screened and printed artworks. Flip through the local paper and glossy gossip magazines and clip your own pictures of divas and disasters to use in creat¬ing a work of art à la Andy. Led by artist Suzanne Lindgren.
Thursday, January 12
Gallery tour, 6 pm
Art Activity: Just Like Andy
Star Tribune Foundation Art Lab, 6–9 pm
See above description.
Activity: Your Future in Our Hands
Bazinet Garden Lobby, 7–9 pm
Having trouble keeping your newly made New Year’s Resolutions? Not sure how to make the most out of 2006? Wish you had an oracle to shed light on your fate? Get all the advice you could ever need at Your Future in Our Hands, an interpretive activity by artists Piotr Szyhalski and Richard Shelton, creators of the Walker’s ever-popular com¬puter-simulated Dolphin Oracle II (2005). This “Happening”—involving a broad panel of expert authorities on subjects ranging from finances to affairs of the heart—will likely spark as many questions as answers.
Lecture: Divination and Personal Destiny
Cinema, 7:30 pm
Free, but ticket required; available from 6 pm at the Bazinet Garden Lobby desk.
In 1400 BC, citizens of Greece consulted the Oracle at Delphi regarding their destiny. As early as the 8th-century BC, the Chinese used the I-Ching (Book of Changes) to understand and predict changing conditions. How do we engage in divination today? The Internet? Fortune cookies? Google? Jumpstart your new year with an in-depth look at the meeting of new media technology and the ancient arts of divination: computer assisted astrology, numerology, I-Ching, and tarot. Join Paul O’Brien, I-Ching scholar and founder of Tarot.com/I-Ching.com, and Rick Levine, master astrologer and co-founder of StarIQ.com, for a discussion of the relationship between culture, technology, destiny, and free will.
Thursday, January 19
SUPERNOVA tour, 6 pm
Art Activity: Just Like Andy
Star Tribune Foundation Art Lab, 6–9 pm
See above description.
Andy Warhol: Factory Films
Cinema, 7:30 pm
Sleep
Warhol framed this intimate image of somnambulist John Giorno as if he’s gaz¬ing at his lover sharing the bed. The artist shot nearly 1,000 three-minute rolls of film, but chose to loop only a select few for this excerpt of his 5-hour, 1-minute complete version. 1963, U.S., BW, silent, 16mm,
4-minute excerpt.
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Kiss
In opposition to mandates that forbade Hollywood films to show kisses of more than three seconds, Warhol’s cinematic pairings, including some same-sex couples, last three minutes each. 1963, U.S., BW, silent, 16mm, 58 minutes.
Thursday, January 26
SUPERNOVA tour, 6 pm
Art Activity: Just Like Andy
Star Tribune Foundation Art Lab, 6–9 pm
See above description.
Andy Warhol: Factory Films
Cinema, 7:30 pm
Haircut (No. 1)
Incorporating multiple camera angles, Warhol filmed shirtless James Waring, Billy Name, John Daley, and Freddy Herko getting haircuts at Waring’s loft. 1963, U.S., BW, 16mm, 33 minutes.
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Eat
Warhol plays off the themes of artist Robert Indiana’s 1960s Eat pieces. Shot in slow motion with a camera stabilized on a tripod and edited with some looping and freeze frames, the film shows Indiana lethargically nibbling on a mushroom. 1963, U.S., BW, silent, 16mm, 39 minutes.
