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Great article in today’s Strib:

“The Republican convention is in the Twin Cities this week, but unless you’re someone special, you haven’t been invited to that party.

“Hoping not to be left out, the Twin Cities arts community has devised a plan for “unscripting the political process.” Hence its plan for what is being called the UnConvention.

“As the name implies, it’s an unconventional way to look at political issues through a week of concerts, parades, art exhibitions and various participatory events. Under the UnConvention umbrella are individual artists as well as such larger organizations as the Walker and Intermedia Arts. While it’s definitely political, its organizers have set out to be nonpartisan.”

Nightlife: Political party
By TOM HORGEN, Star Tribune
Last update: August 28, 2008 - 4:28 PM

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Great article in Sunday’s NYT about The UnConvention - and Dialog:City the UnConvention’s Denver counterpart - including this closing comment from artist Sharon Hayes:

“These conventions are one of the most active places where the two parties reach into the space of the cultural imagination, . . . And that is a place that we as artists have a claim to and also have a responsibility to be present to.”
–Sharon Hayes, in Julie Bloom, “Your (Nonpartisan) Message Here,” NYT, Aug. 18, 2008

Sharon Hayes’ Revolutionary Love 2: I Am Your Best Fantasy is being presented by Creative Time with the Walker Art Center and the UnConvention. Revolutionary Love 2: I Am Your Best Fantasy was a part of Democracy in America, a national public art initiative organized by Creative Time.

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