Domestic Integrities part A05, Walker Art Center, 2013

Sunday, November 17, 2013

11am – 3pm _ Conversation and Knitting: Lisa Anne Auerbach
Los Angeles–based artist Lisa Anne Auerbach will be spending time on the rug in the exhibition Fritz Haeg: At Home in the City, knitting and talking about Hønsestrik, a radical, anti-authoritarian style of knitting that originated in Denmark the 1970s. Known for creating inflammatory slogan-adorned sweaters, Auerbach runs a modest publishing and propaganda empire out of a former bungalow in South Los Angeles.

Thursday, November 21, 2013

6-9pm _ Installation/Performance: J Morgan Puett & Lucky Dragons
Cofounder/director of Mildred’s Lane, artist J. Morgan Puett is known for making and dwelling within her own homespun universe. For this event, she creates an installation on the centerpiece crocheted rug featured in the exhibition Fritz Haeg: At Home in the City. Joining her are Luke Fischbeck and Sarah Rara of the artist duo Lucky Dragons, who enliven the gallery with their participatory approach to making music that focuses on the interconnectedness of humans and technology.

AT HOME IN THE CITY: CLOSING CONVERSATIONS
Artist-in-residence Fritz Haeg concludes his project At Home in the City with a marathon series of conversations with local and visiting collaborators. These talks offer an opportunity to explore a range of issues and ideas that have emerged from the project as it has traveled to various sites around the United States and Europe before its full realization at the Walker. Join the artist and guests along with curators Sarah Schultz and Eric Crosby for a series of discussions, with occasional breaks for group movement, throughout the weekend.

Saturday, November 23, 2013

11:15am-12:15pm _ At Home in the Twin Cities
Local artists and educators discuss the particular nature of growing and making that give a sense of home in the Twin Cities.
• Kristi Fackel is the handwork teacher at Minnesota Waldorf School and a co-founder of the Two Rivers Folk School.
• Mike Haeg is an artist, maker and Mayor of his own town of four residents, Mount Holly, Minnesota.
• Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad are co-directors of the Minneapolis-based BodyCartography Project.
• Sam Gould is an artist and founder of the collective Red 76.
• Ashley Duffalo,Walker Art Center, is project manager of At Home in the City.

12:15 – 12:30 _ break

12:30 – 1:30 _ Stories from Home in other Cities
Arts practitioners from out of town discuss their local arts communities and the work they are doing that engages the public where they live.
• Sara Daleiden is co-founder of the Los Angeles Urban Rangers and director of MKE<->LAX, which investigates cultural exchange between two American regions, with Milwaukee and Los Angeles as epicenters, through residencies and public programs.
• Aandrea Stang is a curator at Occidental College, Los Angeles.
• Megan O’Connell uses letterform to traverse the space of the book, the gallery, and the street. Her current project is Salt & Cedar, a letterpress founded in 2012 in Detroit.

1:30 – 2:30 _ Guided movement: BodyCartography Project,
Codirected by Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad, the BodyCartography Project investigates empathy and the physicality of space in urban, domestic, wild, and social landscapes through dance, performance, video, installation work, and movement education.

2:45 – 3:45 _ Homemaking Across Disciplines
A conversation among discipline-crossing friends about digital, virtual and analog home-making.
• Lucky Dragons is an ongoing collaboration between Los Angeles-based artists Sarah Rara and Luke Fischbeck. Active as a band since 2000, they are known for their participatory approach to making music, radically inclusive live shows, and playful, humanistic use of digital tools.
• Matt Olson is co-founder of RO/LU an experimental studio that works across disciplines – landscape architecture, sculptural furniture, photography, conceptual art, video, collaborative projects – in an undisciplined manner.

3:45 – 4:00 _ Break

4:00 – 5:00 _ Conversation with interdisciplinary artist, cultural producer, and fashion designer, J. Morgan Puett. She is cofounder and director of Mildred’s Lane Historical Society and Museum in rural Pennsylvania, where work first began in 2012 on the Domestic Integrities rug presented at the Walker. A 92-acre social practice mecca, Mildred’s Lane  is designed to collectively create and discuss new pedagogical models of being in the world with regard to the environment, systems of labor, forms of dwelling, ethics, and sociality.

Sunday, November 24, 2013

11:15 – 12:15 _ Local Land
A conversation about issues of domestic land use, cultivation, care, and preservation particular to the Twin Cities.
• Anna Bierbrauer, project steward  and gardener for The Foraging Circle & Edible Estate
• Cante Suta/Francis Bettelyoun, Oglala/Lakota, is Coordinator of the UMN Native American Medicine Gardens, St. Paul campus.
• Bridget Mendel is working towards her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota, and was a project intern on the Foraging Circle and Edible Estate #15.

12:15 – 12:30 _ Break

12:30 – 1:30 _ Edible Estates #15
Join the Schoenherr family, friends, and neighbors for a conversation about their experiences with the first season of Haeg’s Edible Estate #15.
• John, Catherine, Aaron and Andrea Schoenherr joined by Stanley Leonard and Andrea Beardsley
• Trotters Lane neighbors
• Kim Palmer, Star Tribune

1:30 – 2:30 _ Guided movement with Tony Orrico, a visual and performing artist who investigates applications of a conscious mind/body to a surface, object, or course within his developing series, Penwald Drawings and CARBON.

2:45 – 3:45 _ Next Generation of Domestic Arts
What kind of home and world does a younger generation of artists want to build? How have they found inspiration in the projects and what questions are they asking themselves about the future of ‘home’?
• Katie Bachler, a Joshua Tree based artist, makes maps and spaces that facilitate connections to the world around us and to each other.
• Keith Clougherty is an art student in Boston and assistant on Domestic Integrities projects at Pollinaria in Abruzzo, Italy and The deCordova Museum in Lincoln, MA.
• Bjorn Sparman was an At Home in the City intern and tender of the Domestic Integrities installation. He graduated from Calvin College with a BFA in 2012 and now makes sculpture in his parents’ basement.

4:00 – 5:00 _ Domestic Integrities A05: Stories From the Rug and Garden
A conversation with the Domestic Integrities ‘tenders’ and At Home in the City interns about what happened on the rug, in the Foraging Circle, and on the Edible Estate this season. As people who actually “lived the project,” they will share insights and observations, plus reflections on the influence the experience has had on their own domestic and creative lives.
• Brett Baldauf is excited about discussions on the future of urban agriculture and what it means to live sustainably and artistically in Minneapolis. He is managing a local café and will soon start a teaching career.
• Todd Balthazor has done illustrations and art events for the Walker Art Center and recently taught a comic workshop in local libraries through the Minnesota Historical Society. His comic, “It is What it Is!”, chronicles the experiences of an art museum guard.
• Will Gobeli, recently graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Minnesota and has been working closely with At Home in the City since May as an intern and Domestic Integrities tender.
• Stephen Gregg is an urban farmer, DIY maker, and junk-percussionist who enjoys canoeing.
• Hillary King a recent St. Olaf grad, is a part-time farmer and artist inspired by the natural world and human psychology.
• Katherine Lee is a writer and artist currently completing a short story collection in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota, where she is co-editor-in-chief of dislocate.
• Bridget Mendel is working towards her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota, and was a project intern on the Foraging Circle and Edible Estate #15.
• Ann Norberg is a Walker Art Center guard and Domestic Integrities tender.
• Sheila Novak, a recent graduate from St. Olaf College, is a sculptor who works with bronze and found organic objects.
• Peter Rusk is a native of Minnesotan who works as a theater artist, puppeteer and performer in the Twin Cities.
• Björn Sparman graduated from Calvin College with a BFA in 2012 and now makes sculpture in his parents’ basement.
• Leia Wambach is a Lake Superior native interested in non-verbal communication between strangers and among friends. She hopes to utilize the upcoming cold to improve her ice skating and practice tricky knitting.