Laumeier Sculpture Park opens new center and asks what a fair world would look like

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As Laumeier Sculpture Park opens its Adam Aronson Fine Arts Center to the public, exhibited works will be designed to bridge international and local communities. Among those whose work is featured in the first show, which opens Friday, is Raqs Media Collective.

“They’re kind of setting the tone for the international scope that we have for the next five years,” said exhibit curator Dana Turkovic, “It’s more about representing these different voices from different areas of the world.”

The Raqs exhibit features an outdoor component “If the World is a Fair Place Then…” and indoor component “Art in the Age of Collective Intelligence.”

The outdoor aspect consists of laser-cut metal bands of words wrapped around trees scattered throughout the grounds. The words were culled from more than 500 responses to the request to finish the phrase: “If the World is a Fair Place Then…” from which the show draws its name.

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1. Very cool!

I have been going to this place since I was a teenager. It is interesting because it is always different, depending on the time of day and the season. I like the angle of this exhibit because of that. Looking at things in a different light with different perspectives.