Walker Museum Response -Jackie Jessen
The Walker Art Museum is my new favorite art museum. Most times art museums are fun for about five minutes for me. I liked how this one was so different. I could have been entertained there for hours. There was a mix of pictures, sculptures, videos, and all sorts of things. I loved playing with the thing where the cameras from the ceiling sensed your hands picking up the little people on the screen; it amazed me. I also like the one room where there were videos playing on three of the walls. They switched around from an alcohol bottle production place, a grocery store, a lady walking in the road, and other random things. It didn’t seem to portray a certain story, but it’s weird to think that all these things are happening at once, but you never would see them at the same time. None of the videos themselves would have been interesting, but together it just seemed really neat. There were nice comfy bean bag chairs to sit in to watch, which was extra nice. Then of course there was the big white room with nothing but a man at the other end rolling on the floor. This was one of the first things I saw, and I really didn’t know what to think. At first I thought something was wrong and he needed help, until I realized that he was actually art. It was hard for me to take it seriously at first. It felt awkward to actually walk all the way into the room, so I just kept peeking inside the doorway. But then at the end of the museum experience I returned to the rolling man, walked farther into the room, and just stared for awhile. I think performing art is the best kind of art. It is more memorable and gets people talking more.