Northern Studies: Two Weeks Left!
Only two weeks left to come check out Justin Newhall’s exhibition, Northern Studies. While you’re here, spend some time with Richard T. Walker’s conversation with an unmoving landscape, page through Newhall’s strikingly elegant Dene Village Portfolio and listen to Glenn Gould’s The Idea of North at our listening station.
Need more encouragement? Check out this spotlight from the Star Tribune/Vita.MN, or see a preview on Justin’s website.
Can’t make it until the last day? We’ve got a wonderful Last Look event in store for this exhibition. After a long journey of phone calls, emails, and much sweat and finger-crossing, we are able to confirm the screening of The Idea of North here on that day, a seldom-seen docu-drama based on Gould’s experimental radio works. The film enacts of the Idea of North radio documentary with live performances by the piece’s interviewees, filmed in their natural habitats, and Gould himself discussing his fascination with contrapuntal radio while traversing across the snowy tundra of Churchill, Manitoba.
Filmed in 1970, this amazing film has only viewed publicly a handful of times since then, and we’re lucky enough to have the opportunity to see it right here in our Screening Room on January 22. The screening will be accompanied by live music by two University of Minnesota classical music groups. Stay tuned for more details. What a day! Save the date!
