Instructions for Peace

Thursday, July 11, Free  •  Public Program  7pm-7:30pm  •  Reception  7:30pm-9pm

Ananya Dance Theatre will perform around Lourdes Cue’s “Flotilla for Peace” that includes hundreds of origami boats in different sizes, made from old maps and Atlases. Hear the sounds from the shores of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans mingling with the flowing waters of the Mississippi River

Where:
Katherine E. Nash Gallery
Regis Center for Art, East
University of Minnesota
405 21st Avenue S. | Minneapolis, MN

KFAI radio’s Janis Lane-Ewart will play music selections from Collective Eye as her curated radio version of the show. Ananya Dance Theatre will perform around Lourdes Cue’s “Flotilla for Peace.” Filmmaker Jan Selby (“A Circle and Three Lines”) is leasing a peace rock activity.

Exhibition Dates
June 25 – July 20, 2013

Exhibition Description
Instructions For Peace is a touring public art and gallery exhibition of interactive multimedia art installations containing people’s instructions for peace in the twenty-first century. The project was conceived and curated by Minneapolis-based new media arts curator Marlina Gonzalez. The exhibition was first installed at Togonon Gallery in San Francisco, as a parallel exhibition to the 2009 01SJ Bienniale in San Jose, California. The Katherine E. Nash Gallery presents an expanded version of Instructions For Peace. This exhibition integrates selections from the San Francisco exhibition with new or commissioned works by Minnesota-based artists. The Department of Art has an ongoing partnership with the FAIR School, a K12 arts magnet school with branches in Crystal and downtown Minneapolis. Instructions For Peace offers a unique opportunity to explore the relationships of art, academics, and peace as a lifetime pursuit that spans generations.

Artists in the Nash Gallery Exhibition
Mina Blyly Strauss, Lourdes Cue, Colette Gaiter, Anita Glesta, Wing Young Huie, betto limon, Fang-Yu Lin, Rebecca McDonald, Hend Al Mansour, John Noltner, Phira Rehm, Roberto Rivera, Jan Selby, Niccu Taffarodi, Missy Whiteman

Katherine E. Nash Gallery 
The Katherine E. Nash Gallery is a research laboratory for the practice and interpretation of the visual arts. We believe the visual arts have the capacity to interpret, critique and expand on all of human experience. Our engagement with the visual arts helps us to discover who we are and understand our relationships to each other and society. The Katherine E. Nash Gallery will be a center of discourse on the practice of visual art and its relationship to culture and community — a place where we examine our assumptions about the past and suggest possibilities for the future. http://nash.umn.edu/

Related article: “Instructions for Peace” opens at Katherine E. Nash Gallery, by Sheila Regan, City Pages, July 10, 2013