MN Arists: CarryOn Homes
Thursday, August 29, 5pm
Walker Art Center, Free
Mn Artists, the Walker’s platform for local artists, brings its online network live and into the museum. Connect with local artists of all disciplines, and engage with the questions driving the Minnesota arts community. The series returns for a third year, with multi-faceted events designed by guest curators Anat Shinar & Amal Rogers, CarryOn Homes, and Jonathan Herrera Soto.
How and why do we learn the way we do? CarryOn Homes invites local artists who have experienced immigration or emigration to the Walker Art Center, in order to explore questions about how institutional education systems shape us and discover possible paths for reeducation. By observing the way different cultures relate to public spaces and education, this project asks what actions can be taken to subvert assumed dynamics and reveal hidden histories. For this one-night event, the halls of the museum will be converted into an experimental classroom for artists to engage and share resources with guests.
Event schedule
5–9 pm:
Wurtele Upper Garden
Donkeyfull Mind, by Nooshin Hakim Javadi and Pedram Baldari, a tour of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden led by a live donkey
Main Lobby
A Physical Study of the Education of Art #2, a film by Pedram Baldari, featuring Nooshin Hakim Javadi
Hennepin Lobby, Cargill Lounge, Main Lobby
precedent, lighting installation by Valerie Oliveiro
5:30–6 and 7:30–8 pm:
Main Lobby
Coded Kinship, performance by Tou SaiK Lee
6:15–7:15 pm:
Cargill Lounge
precedent, performance by Valerie Oliveiro
Read more about the works on Mn Artist’s website here.
ABOUT THE CURATORS:
Photo: Courtesy of CarryOn Homes.
CarryOn Homes is a group of five artists from five countries: Zoe Cinel (Italy), Preston Drum (USA), Aki Shibata (Japan), Peng Wu (China), Shunjie Yong (Malaysia), united by a drive to raise awareness of social issues through the creation of artworks. This diverse group of individual artists were brought together by their mutual association with designer Peng Wu and photographer Shunjie Yong, who created a documentary photography series about immigrants in Minnesota. With the introduction of behavioral artist Aki Shibata, multi-media artist Zoe Cinel and installation artist Preston Drum, the team was tasked with expanding the scope of what CarryOn Homes could be and began to develop interactive installations. The group won the Creative City Challenge in 2018 and created a multifaceted public artwork at The Commons Park in downtown Minneapolis, MN. While each member of the group maintains an active solo practice, they continue to make artworks as a group and advocate for social issues.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Tou SaiK Lee was born in Nong Kai refugee camp in Thailand, grew up in Syracuse, NY, and has lived most of his life in the Twin Cities. Lee is a writer, spoken word poet, storyteller and a hip hop artist. He is releasing his first Hmong language hip hop album titled Ntiaj Teb Koom Tes, which translates to Unified Worldwide, in 2019. Tou SaiK is writing a memoir about him and his grandmother’s collaboration to honor her passing, titled My Grandma Can Freestyle.
Valerie Oliveiro is an artist born in Singapore and based in Minneapolis. Most recently she has performed in projects by Jennifer Monson (Live Dancing Archive, In Tow), Morgan Thorson (Still Life, Public Love), Rosy Simas (Weave) and Bouchra Ouizguen (Corbeaux). She also recently lit Parking Ramp Project by Pramila Vasudevan (September 2018) and Yam, Potatoe an Fish! by Alanna Morris Van-Tassel (October 2018). Her photographic work has been shown at Indigo (Champaign, IL), the University YWCA (Urbana, IL). Schneider Gallery (Chicago, IL), OBJECTIFS (Singapore), Murmur Gallery (Atlanta, GA) and Red Eye Theater (Minneapolis, MN). She is one of seven artistic directors of Red Eye Theater. Her own evening-length work THE STANDARD. premiered as part of Red Eye’s New Works 4 Weeks Festival in June 2019.
Pedram Baldari is a Kurdish-Iranian born sculptor, architect and interdisciplinary artist, working in installation, site-specific and performance art. He has been featured in numerous national and international art exhibitions since 2010, including a solo exhibition in Victoria and Albert Museum in London (2012), Documenta 13 Video Import-Export program, Video Nomad Tokyo (2015), and Art Basel Basel Switzerland (2014). He has been selected for art residencies across the world and has had group art exhibitions internationally in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Turkey, and the U.S. He was recently an artist fellow at the Target Studio of the Weisman Museum, UMN, where he—in collaboration with Nooshin Hakim—worked to realize Radio Rhizome, and worked as an assistant professor at the Art Department, UMN.
Nooshin Hakim Javadi, born in Qazvin, Iran, is a performative sculptor currently based in Minneapolis as teaching faculty at the University of Minnesota. She received her BFA from the Tehran University and her MFA from the University of Minnesota. She is currently an artist fellow of Weisman Museum of Art. She is the recipient of Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award from Sculpture Magazine and a Jerome Fellowship from Franconia Sculpture Park. Hakim’s work has shown nationally and internationally in Iran, Germany, and the United States. She had exhibitions at the Museum fur Neue Kunst in Freiburg, Germany, Open Museum Night (Muka Night) in Karlsruhe, Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim in Germany, and Eine Kunstausstellung in Schwarzwald, a two-person show with Chris Larson at the Washburn Lofts in Minneapolis, Minnesota Museum of American Art, and in Grounds for Sculpture. Some of her upcoming exhibitions will be in the South Dakota Museum of Art and the Plains Museum. She likes to explore the space between the body, and the space within and around that body. At the root of her work are socio-political issues, which are in constant flux.