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Over the course of The Talking Cure exhibition, hundreds of visitors have contributed private responses to Rebecca Krinke’s participatory installation What Needs to Be Said?.

To mark the closing of the exhibition, Krinke will lead a burning of the private responses following the ArtWords and Ivory Tower launch party. University of Minnesota student dancers will lead attendees from the Riverview Gallery to the Coffman Riverbend plaza, located between Coffman Union and Washington Ave.

Join us for this ceremonial closure and ushering of new beginnings.

 

In dialogue with Rebecca Krinke

This past September The Talking Cure opened at the Weisman Art Museum combining the work of New York-based artist Melissa Stern with local artist, UMN faculty member, and 2016-17 Target Studio artist-in-residence, Rebecca Krinke. The Talking Cure features 12 sculptures by Melissa Stern combining found objects, written monologues, and digital recordings into personified archetypes of emotion. In addition to Stern’s sculptures, Rebecca Krinke was commissioned by curator Laura Wertheim Joseph to create an interactive installation allowing visitors to respond directly…

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Radical Listening, Pt. 3

On Gallery Guards and Audience Engagement While examining Krinke’s work I find a certain restriction in observing the visitor’s interaction with the piece. In this post, I hope to examine the indirectly look at the interactions of the visitors through an altogether different source, the gallery guards. I hope to spotlight the effort of the often overlooked force of the museum, the gallery guards, examining their interactions with Krinke’s piece and the visitors who activate it.  Since beginning this project,…

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Radical Listening, Pt. 1

Rebecca Krinke’s artwork, What Needs to Be Said, is a project within the exhibition The Talking Cure, located in the Target Studio for Creative Collaboration at the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota. In this post and those to follow, I will be reflecting upon the work’s location within the larger field of museology as well as its implications within the Weisman Art Museum and larger university community. The blog posts in this series are being written with advising and guidance…

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