The Walker Art Center's Target Free Thursday Nights in January are highlighted by a Contemporary Art in Conversation talk with JoAnn Verburg (January 24, 7:30 pm), in conjunction with the new exhibition Present Tense: Photographs by JoAnn Verburg (opening January 12).
The artist discusses her career with Walker consulting curator Siri Engberg and Museum of Modern Art photography curator Susan Kismaric. Also on view that evening from 6–9 pm in the U.S. Bank Orientation Lounge is a slideshow of JoAnn Verburg's photographs documenting the original theatrical performance of David Byrne and Robert Wilson's the Knee Plays, which premiered at the Walker in 1984.
Also featured in January are a screening of the film Frida Naturaleza Viva, directed by Paul Leduc, which chronicles Frida Kahlo and her encounters with the personalities of her time (January 3, 7 pm); the discussion Tino Sehgal's Art and Economy, led by University of Minnesota professors Jane Blocker and Richard Leppert, discussing how the work featured in the exhibition Tino Sehgal (opening December 12) conjures up questions about what we consider valuable in Western society (January 10, 7 pm); the discussion Performing Gender: Identity, Ethnicity, and Sexuality in Frida Kahlo and Onstage (January 17, 7 pm), during which Edén Torres, professor of Chicana feminist studies and chair of the Chicano Studies Department at the University of Minnesota, interviews drag queen/University instructor Esmé Rodríguez (a.k.a. T. Kupin) on the staging of gender and identity in her work and in the art and life of Frida Kahlo; and a screening of Jennifer Fox's Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman, Parts 1–3 (January 31, 7 pm), part of the Walker's Expanding the Frame series. -- www.walkerart.org
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