Artists-in-Residence

	untitled 2006 (demo station no. 5) March-June 2006 Rirkrit Tiravanija set the stage for the Walker Art Center's exhibition OPEN-ENDED (the art of engagement) with his untitled 2006 (demo station no. 5), a re-creation of the two-tiered Rraumbühne (space-stage) designed by Viennese... read more »

	Radio Re-Volt: One Person.ooOneWatt December 2003-October 2004 This project originated from a desire/idea to match and contest the wattage of the most powerful radio broadcasting company of the Twin Cities: Clear Channel. Operating with over 50,000 watts, the Clear Channel’s broadcasting power dominates the airwaves—a public domain by definition—in... read more »

	Christian Marclay Christian Marclay September 2003 - June 2005 Why is it that politicians might say "look" to emphasize a point, when they really mean "listen"? And why would we confirm "I see" to instructions given over the telephone, when we really mean "I hear"? For more than two decades, Christian Marclay has been creating artworks that explore and exploit... read more »

	Garden Project 2002-2003 Sam Durant has been interested in Native American history and politics since he was a young boy growing up in Boston, so it was no surprise when he decided to focus his residency project on that specific Twin Cities community. The American Indian Movement (AIM), a civil-rights group, was founded in... read more »

	Skyways & Icehouses 2001-2002 When the Walker Art Center invited Catherine Opie to be an artist-in-residence, she immediately knew that she wanted to continue her investigation of American cites by photographing two vernacular architectural elements particular to the Twin Cities: ice-fishing houses and the downtown skyways. In... read more »

	Minneapolis and St. Paul Are East African Cities 2001-2002 During her first visit to the Twin Cities in February 2001, Julie Mehretu immediately noticed the sizeable population of East Africans in the metropolitan area. Of Ethiopian descent herself and familiar with the complex histories of the region, she was curious about how these new immigrants were... read more »

	Rites-of-Way 2000 As a Walker artist-in-residence, Nari Ward held storytelling workshops over the course of six months with people from several different Twin Cities communities and asked them to describe “home.” The answers he received—from Hmong immigrants, African American and Korean seniors, homeless... read more »

	Coloring: New Work by Glenn Ligon 1999-2000 Glenn Ligon’s residency had two distinct elements that nevertheless shared a common theme of “sampling”—the contemporary method of cutting and mixing existing material and ideas to create something dynamic and new. Fascinated by the complicated histories—social, cultural, and political—that... read more »

	Urban Messages July 1998 Barry McGee’s residency brought the artist together with Minneapolis teenagers in a variety of activities intended to give expression to the energies of youth. Because his work is heavily influenced by “street art,” it seems only fitting that one of his residency activities sent teens into the... read more »

	Catalogue (Back of Postcard Reads) Memories 1996-1997 Residencies often precede an exhibition of the artist’s work and feature the piece(s) created during that period of time as the basis for the show. Sometimes the opposite is true. In July 1996, more than a year after the exhibition Economies: Hans Accola and Rirkrit... read more »