Artist-in-Residence @ Weisman Art Museum’s Target Studio for Creative Collaboration
Rebecca was selected as the Weisman Art Museum Target Studio for Creative Collaboration Artist-in-Residence from 2016-2017. Rebecca worked with curator Laura Wertheim Joseph, PhD, to conceived events and programming centered on the multimedia installation The Talking Cure by NY based artist Melissa Stern.
The Talking Cure featured an interactive art piece by artist-in-residence Rebecca Krinke titled What Needs to be Said? The work was inspired by Japanese tokonoma. The tokonoma is a raised alcove space often found in traditional Japanese architecture and used to comment, question, or illuminate aspects of existence. Krinke’s tokonoma of sorts poses the question “What needs to be said?” asking viewers to respond on provided sheets of paper and to choose to either pin their response to the sculpture, allowing for it to be read, or to deposit it in a frosted glass vessel where it was eventually burned. The piece provides a platform for the visitors to explore, what curator Laura Joseph calls, “the cathartic possibilities of speaking up.” According to the artist, the work emerged in response to a “tremendous need for new places and objects to address our emotional lives.”
The Target Studio for Creative Collaboration is a large gallery space within the Weisman Art Museum, located on the University of Minnesota campus. The sculptural, stainless steel clad building, designed by Frank Gehry, has a prominent setting along the Mississippi River.
