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Michael Rakowitz, The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist (Recovered Missing Stolen Series), 2007. Courtesy Lombard-Freid Projects.

From custom-built inflatable homeless shelters to the replication of objects looted from the Iraqi National Museum, Michael Rakowitz's projects invite us to question our relationship to societies in crisis. His performances, interventions, and sculptures make visible the overlooked or ignored realities of our time.

Rakowitz is represented by Lombard-Freid Projects, is a contributing editor for Surface Tension: A Journal on Spatial Arts, and is an associate professor at Northwestern University. He has exhibited at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, MassMOCA, and the Tirana, Sharjah, and Sydney biennials.

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This event is associated with The UnConvention, a nonpartisan collective of citizens who have come together to create a forum in which to promote the democratic and free exchange of ideas on important issues. The UnConvention was initiated by Northern Lights, a Twin Cities-based arts agency with support from The McKnight Foundation. Lead partners for the UnConvention are Intermedia Arts and the Walker Art Center. Local participating organizations include Forecast Public Arts, Form + Content, The Liberty Parade, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, The Minneapolis Foundation, Sandbox Studios, Twin Cities Youth Media Network, Spark24, Spark Festival, The UpTake, the University of Minnesota, and The Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum. National Partners include Creative Time, a New York-based innovative public arts organization, and Provisions Library, a social change learning resource center based in Washington, D.C.