2006: The Interviews

A quick look back at interviews posted here or at the Walker blogs:

• Stephanie Kinunnen, cofounder of NEED magazine

• Mark Ritchie, founder of the voter registration project November 2, founding president of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, and, as of tomorrow, Minnesota's Secretary of State

• Thomas Hirschorn, artist

• Doryun Chong, Walker Art Center curator, on the work of Rirkrit Tiravanija

• James Howard Kunstler, environmentalist and author (The Long Emergency)

• Alec Soth, photographer

• Aiden Enns, publisher of Geez magazine ("Holy mischief in an age of fast faith") and founder of BuyNothingChristmas.org

• Cameron Sinclair, founder of Architecture for Humanity and editor of Design Like You Give a Damn

• Kinji Akagawa, sculptor

• Philippe Vergne and Chrissie Iles, co-curators of the 2007 Whitney Biennial, on "America"

From the archives:

Robert Storr, dean of Yale's art school and curator of the 2007 Venice Biennale
Rirkrit Tiravanija, Thomas Hirschhorn, Hou Hanru, and others, excerpt on the question "Can art change the world?"
Philippe Vergne, Walker chief curator and co-curator of the 2006 Whitney Biennial, with artist Todd Norsten
Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, artists
Kalle Lasn, publisher of Adbusters
Siva Vaidhyanathan, author, communications professor
Robin Rimbaud a.k.a. Scanner, musician/artist
Craig Baldwin, filmmaker/activist