Following the April 2018 launch of "The Centers of Somewhere," filmmaker Sky Hopinka's contribution to the Walker Art Center's Artist Op-Eds series, the museum has scheduled a special evening with the artist. Join me and assistant curator/archivist Ruth Hodgins on September 13, 2018 for a screening of Hopinka's short films, followed by a discussion with the artist. Pick up a free copy of the op-ed pamphlet, and join us all for a post-event reception at Minneapolis' Bockley Gallery.

Hopinka's op-ed is also reprinted in a beautiful new editioned book, Around the Edge of Encircling Lake, published by Milwaukee's Green Gallery Press. It includes several of Hopinka's essays, poetry, images from his experimental films, and links to a few of his moving image works.

“A difference between learning and knowing is little more than asking questions without the entitlement of an answer, and honoring the vulnerability in saying and hearing, ‘I don’t know.’” In his Walker Art Center Artist Op-Ed, experimental filmmaker Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk/Pechanga) ruminates on power, privilege, and identity—including his own—as he responds to the burden of representation and authority placed on groups of traditionally oppressed people. Hopinka's op-ed, like all 12 in this ongoing series, is accompanied by a print-on-demand pamphlet. Like Postcommodity's op-ed of 2017, Hopinka's pamphlet will be released during a September artist talk at the Walker (details to come).

All 12 Artist Op-Eds, with Hopinka's—featuring a still from his film Dislocation Blues (2017), shot at Standing Rock, on the cover—on top.