Exhibition Information Date:  March 25 - June 18, 2006 Place:  Target Gallery View all associated media View this exhibition in the Walker Calendar
		Image: Rirkrit Tiravanija, untitled 2006 (demo station no. 5) , 2006 Installation view at Walker Art Center, 2006 Photo: Gene Pittman

How can an art gallery be more than a gallery? Can it also be a stage, a media station, an info lounge, a salon, and a cinematheque? How can it be a community—a chaotic utopia or utopian chaos that creates a community? These challenging questions activate OPEN-ENDED (the art of engagement), an exhibition that invites visitors to go beyond mere viewing to playing an active role in the art. To fill this tall order, it brings together artists with whom the Walker has formed ongoing relationships, to construct and energize a shared space.

The core of the exhibition is composed of three new projects built on-site by past Walker artists-in-residence. Choreographer Ralph Lemon’s installation is a landscape of memory and history re-created from his stage set for Come home Charley Patton (2004), the third part of his Geography Trilogy co-commissioned and presented by the Walker. This work collides with and counterbalances other scenarios of “home” made by Catherine Opie and Sam Durant during their residencies in 2002. Filmmaker Spencer Nakasako, whose self-activated video booth was shown here in 2001, creates a digital media station for recording and playing videos within the exhibition as well as expanding interactive communication between the gallery and the outside world. Visual artist Rirkrit Tiravanija, continuing his influential practice of transforming the gallery into a social space, builds a stage/lounge enlivened by a series of programs for use by visitors.

OPEN-ENDED is more than an exhibition—it will evolve constantly, with its overall shape and perimeter shifting through contributions and interventions from creative minds in our neighborhood. It will include events and performances put together by guest curators and artists, regularly scheduled video screenings, and programmed and spontaneous salons where visitors can gather for discussion. An attempt to question the distinction between art and life and to build a community inside the gallery, OPEN-ENDED aims to be a social space for all.

Curator: Doryun Chong

OPEN-ENDED (the art of engagement) is made possible by generous support from the Bush Foundation.

	Activity Resident Artist: Matt Bakkom, Part 3 Capture the Flag Saturday, June 10, 2006   9:00 pm
	Activity Mail-in Activity: Ralph Lemon Thursday, June 8, 2006   7:00 pm
	Activity Resident Artists: The Revolutionary Party Nothing (Nowhere) to Hide June 8 - 18, 2006
	Film 4th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival (BEFF4): Bangkok Democrazy Thursday, June 1, 2006
	Activity Resident Artist: Marcus Young Untitled Painting June 1 - 18, 2006
	Fashion Show Walker Un-Prom: Not Your Mama's Formal Thursday, May 25, 2006   7:00 pm
	Performance Open Mic: G.O.T. Mic? Target Free Thursday Nights Thursday, May 25, 2006   8:00 pm
	Discussion Memories of a World to Come: Conversations on Art and Utopia, Part 3 Sunday, May 21, 2006   2:00 pm
	Performance Resident Artist: Mankwe Ndosi Thursday, May 18, 2006   7:00 pm
	Activity Resident Artist: Matt Bakkom, Part 2 Inaugural Meeting of the Anagram Club of Minneapolis Saturday, May 13, 2006   2:00 pm
	Screening/Performance Mike Siv and Prach (Work-in-Progress) Thursday, May 11, 2006, 8:00 pm, Friday, May 12, 2006, 7:00 pm
	Performance Myra Melford/Dawn Saito/Oguri Thursday, May 11, 2006   7:00 pm
	Film The Wave: A program of short films from China Thursday, May 4, 2006   7:00 pm
	Performance Lab Tour with Performance Lab Target Free Thursday Nights Thursday, April 6, 2006, 6:00 pm, Thursday, May 4, 2006, 6:00 pm
	Performance Resident Artist: Gülgün Kayim and Skewed Vision Thursday, May 4, 2006   7:30 pm
	Performance Resident Artist: Abinadi Meza, Part 2 360º Concert No. 2: Unbuilding Thursday, April 27, 2006   7:00 pm
	Discussion Memories of a World to Come: Conversations on Art and Utopia, Part 2 Sunday, April 23, 2006   2:00 pm
	Performance Karaoke Battle/Open Mic Target Free Thursday Nights Thursday, April 20, 2006   7:00 pm
	Performance Resident Artist: Abinadi Meza, Part 1 360º Concert No. 1: Building Thursday, April 13, 2006   7:00 pm
	Workshop OPEN-ENDED Teacher Workshop Performance Art in the Classroom Monday, April 10, 2006   5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
	Discussion Memories of a World to Come: Conversations on Art and Utopia, Part 1 Sunday, April 2, 2006   2:00 pm
	Family Program What's Your Story? Free First Saturday Saturday, April 1, 2006   10:00 am to 5:00 pm
	Activity Resident Artist: Matt Bakkom, Part 1 The Society for Collective Investigation Thursday, March 30, 2006, 6:00 pm, Saturday, April 1, 2006, 2:00 pm
	Performance Ise Lyfe/Open Mic Thursday, March 30, 2006   7:00 pm
	Special Event Opening-day Event Saturday, March 25, 2006   1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
	Talk Rirkrit Tiravanija and Bruce Sterling Contemporary Art in Conversation Thursday, March 23, 2006   8:00 pm

Relational Architecture: Rirkrits Thai House http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2007/10/17/relational-architecture-rirkrits/ Walker blogs, Off Center: Architecture

A side project: Nothing (Nowhere) to Hide at the MN History Center http://blogs.walkerart.org/newmedia/2008/01/28/side-project-hide-mn-history/ Walker blogs, New Media Initiatives Blog: NMI Today

Museum Exhibition Title Graphics http://blogs.walkerart.org/design/2009/07/30/museum-exhibition-title-graphics/ Walker blogs, Design: Flat Files

Rirkrit Tiravanija http://visualarts.walkerart.org/detail.wac?id=2721&title=Articles Profile of Rirkrit Tiravanija, one of the artists creating a new on-site project for OPEN-ENDED.

Spencer Nakasako http://filmvideo.walkerart.org/detail.wac?id=2867&title=Articles

Ralph Lemon http://performingarts.walkerart.org/detail.wac?id=3003&title=Articles