EVENTS
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CONVERSATION
Luis Mejicanos + Rachel Collier
7/29, 5 PM
Join us for a conversation with Luis Edgar Mejicanos, The Cloud House’s current artist in residence, and Minneapolis-based artist Rachel Collier. Offering a poignant exploration of childhood longing, vulnerability, and the complexity of human emotion, Mejicanos's blend of sentimentality and vibrancy invites viewers to reflect on their own experiences of youth and self-discovery. Rachel Collier's materials are activated by a meditative and resilient process rooted in non-representational painterly tradition. While referencing the languages of maps and topography, Collier’s language deconstructs from the grid to imagine transcendent space.
Following the conversation, we invite you to join us for a reception with the artists and to view works by Mejicanos made during his residency. Paintings will be available for sale to benefit the residency. We look forward to seeing you there!
Luis Mejicanos. Pizarra, 2023 (detail). Oil on canvas. 50 in x 74 in. Courtesy of the artist.
OPEN STUDIO + BBQ
Luka Carter + Keioui Keijaun Thomas
6/7, 6–8PM
Join us for an open studio event with The Cloud House's Artists in Residence, hosted on Dreamsong's campus. Luka Carter and Keioui Keijaun Thomas will be sharing drawings, ceramics, apparel and photography in our Cinema. Outside, enjoy a backyard BBQ on Carter's ceramic grill! At 8pm, we will screen an excerpt from Thomas' Come Hell or High Femmes: Act 2. The Last Trans Femmes on Earth: Dripping Doll Energy, which imagines a lush and verdant post-apocalyptic world inhabited by surviving “dolls” — trans femmes so flawless they are no longer considered real. Through camouflage and metamorphosis, the artist reclaims what it means to be Black and queer in nature, forging new ways to exist in relation to the American landscape.
Keioui Keijaun Thomas photographed by Guillaume Ziccarelli. Courtesy of the artist.
SCREENING
Black Dreams &
Black Time
6/9/2023, 7PM
Black feminist performance artist Gabrielle Civil presents a selection of video work from across her two decade career. Taking its title from her latest performance memoir the déjà vu: black dreams & black time (Coffee House Press, 2022), this screening will include videoperformances, performance documentation, and live art action. Civil will flashback to her Twin Cities collaborations with artists Miré Regulus, Ellen Marie Hinchcliffe, Sayge Carroll, Moe Lionel, Rosamond S. King, and more. Civil will also preview Pilgrimage, her durational live performance premiering at Franconia Sculpture Park later in June. This event will close with a brief talkback and reception.
Photo: Sayge Carroll. Courtesy of the artist.
ARTIST TALK
Mañiañin
4/21/2023, 7PM
Join artist Pio Abad and curator and writer Erin Robideaux Gleeson for Mañiañinu: To appear as a reflection; to be mirrored, a live research session that meanders with Ivatan song and documentary photography through past, present and future wet migrations, partially shared language, indigeneity between colonial escape and national fictions, archeology as speculative reconstruction, and more. Followed by a light brunch inspired by Austronesian food cultures.
This event will conclude Pio Abad’s FD13 week-long residency in Minneapolis, following his celebration with and contributions to his aunt Pacita Abad’s solo exhibition, publication and programs at the Walker Art Center (April 15, 2023 – September 30, 2023). The materials and ideas engaging this live research are toward Abad’s new commission for Small World, the 13th Taipei Biennale (November 18, 2023 – March 24, 2024).
Documentary photographs by Pio Abad (2023). Left: Jade artefacts excavated in Hualien; Right: Tatala boats of the Tao (Yami) people, Lanyu Island.
WALKTHROUGH
Memories of Future Fires
8/3/2022, 5PM
Please join us for a walkthrough of Memories of Future Fires with the artist, Tali Weinberg.
Through weaving and sculpture, I trace relationships between climate crisis, extraction, illness, and sense of place; between personal and communal loss; and between corporeal and ecological bodies. In my newest work I interweave petrochemical-derived materials, plant materials, and landscape imagery to draw connections between climate crisis, fossil fuel extraction, and the buildup of toxic plastics in the earth, water, and our bodies.
Forest fires; smoke inhalation; microplastics in our ecosystems, blood, and lungs; loss of homes past and future. The hand-woven pieces in “Memories of Future Fires” each start with photos I took in a fire-decimated landscape in the Pacific Northwest. I reduce the trees in these landscapes down to their fundamental shapes before rematerializing them with petrochemical-derived monofilament. As I look to connections between the life-sustaining circulatory systems that are both internal and external to the human body, the abstracted tree forms also begin to evoke hearts and lungs. Up close, the transparent, porous, woven structures take shape as cells and flames.
Tali Weinberg, Arterial, 2022 (detail),Handwoven plant fibers, petrochemical-derived dyes and monofilament. 86 x 112 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
PERFORMANCE
Chaw Ei Thein
12/4/2021, 8PM
In solidarity with the multi-ethnic civil disobedience movement across Myanmar today, this new performance* by Chaw Ei Thein was developed for and during the artist’s FD13 residency in the Twin Cities, home to the largest community of Karen peoples in the United States. FD13 Director Erin Gleeson will open the event with a brief introduction to Chaw Ei Thein’s practice in relation to political and performance art histories in Myanmar. Following the performance is a reception with the artist. Masks + proof of vaccination are required.
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*Performance may contain violent content based on experiences of the artists/speakers.
Chaw Ei’s Thein’s FD13 residency is hosted by Dreamsong’s Cloud House Residency, which provides accommodations and support for visual artists who are developing, exhibiting or curating new work in the Twin Cities.
Film still of Chaw Ei Thein from Min Min Hein’s documentary film Listen (2017). Courtesy of the artist.
SCREENING + CONVERSATION
Anocha Suwichakornpong
3/15/2022, 7PM
Dreamsong is pleased to present a program of short films by the prominent filmmaker Anocha Suwichakornpong, visiting Cloud House Resident. The program features work made over the last 15 years that shape-shifts between genres by way of a deep engagement with the history of cinema. Blurring the line between fantasy and reality, the films confront historical trauma in striking, intimate narratives. Sharing an interest in myth, historical memory and marginalized communities, Suwichakornpong’s short films present insightful vignettes and character studies through a feminist lens.
The program features 6 short films and will be followed by a conversation with Anocha Suwichakornpong and Rebecca Heidenberg, and a Q&A.
Film still from Overseas (2012) co-directed by Anocha Suwichakornpong and Wichanon Somumjarn. Courtesy of the artist.