Songs of Returning, Both Silent and Aloud (The Domestic Struggle Part Threee)

NCA "office," in the basement of Roots and Culture, in Chicago. Here I store many worldly posessions and when I pass through Chicago I sleep here. I have an informal arrangement with Eric May, the owner, $100 a month to maintain this base in Chicago. Another artist sometimes sleeps here when I am not in town. My intrepid, hearty, and beloved migration partner, Courtney Moran, operating the bush-hog at Little Bluff Farm, near Broadhead, Wisconsin. We worked here together for two weeks, assisting the horticultural Artist, Simple, among other projects. Here is our mobile pop-corn field tied to the back of my bike, by the Little Bluff Farm greenhouse. Courtney and I will travel with these plants all Summer (or until they become too unwieldy). Rhubarb from Henry's Farm, at the Evanston Farmers Market. Courtney and I will work for about a month on Henry's Farm beginning in late June. Courtney spent eight months interning there, until this past December. The MRCC Continental Drift visiting Tomahnous Farms, an organic, family farm near Mahomet, Illinois.

*DS3 BLURB* The Network of Cumulative Art, Radical Midwest Culture Corridor, and Art of This present: Songs of Returning, Both Silent and Aloud (The Domestic Struggle Part Threee) August 23-September 7 at Art of This 3506 Nicollet Ave., Minneapolis 612-721-4105 Opening Reception August 23 How do we touch the land and how does it touch us? There is a long, vibrant history of so-called "back to the land movements." But in fact we have never left the land. We have always been dependent on the land--and the people who work closely with it--for our survival. When we fill the tank, flip a switch, open a bag of chips, sit quietly in a comfy chair, or get on-line--even though we are largely unconscious of it--we are in relationship to the land. We are constantly touching the land and it is constantly touching us back. Songs of Returning is an occasion to appraise different relationships to the land. It is an opportunity to imagine how stolen land can be given back, how people are coerced with physical and economic violence to relate to the land in ways they would not choose for themselves. And it is an effort to make a home, nurturing, imaginative places for speech and acts that begin to erode the colonial pathologies that pervade in our culture--our relationships to the land. While the list of participants will never be complete, several cultural workers with intimate connections to different parts of the Midwest are contributing to the exhibition, as well as coinciding events, publications, and initiatives. Among the contributors are: Let's Remake! (Bonnie Fortune and Brett Bloom, www.letsremake.info), Dan S. Wang (www.prop-press.vox.com), Paul Durand, Jacob Chistopher Hammes, Aaron Hughes(www.aarhughes.org), Little Bluff Farm, Courtney Moran, Mike Wolf, Vanessa Smith, Midwest Radical Culture Corridor (radicalmidwest.blogspot.com). -----Preliminary Calendar of Events----- More events, meals, and video screenings will be added to this calendar. All events are at Art of This unless otherwise noted. Exhibition Dates: Aug 23-Sept 7 Aug 23: Opening Reception August 28: Domestic Struggle Part Threee Travelogue, images and stories of Midwestern driftings presented by Mike Wolf, dinner served at 6 pm, presentation at 7pm August 29: ARP! Release Party September 1: Post-Anti-War March Mixer at the Wolf Home (Anti-war march optional) please call Mike Wolf for information: 773-368-5875 Nov: Dakota Commemorative March