Welcome artist in residence Cecilia Cornejo to Lanesboro, tour The Wandering House, and learn more about the project while enjoying a potluck dinner outdoors in Parkway Place, the gravel lot in downtown Lanesboro, on Tuesday, September 17 at 5:30 p.m. Feel free to bring a dish to pass! No advance registration is necessary, but feel free to get in touch with the artist by contacting Program Director Adam Wiltgen at adam@lanesboroarts.org or 507-467-2446. Rain site is the upper level studio at the St. Mane Theatre.
Northfield filmmaker Cecilia Cornejo is interested in exploring notions of home and belonging in collaboration with the Lanesboro community through The Wandering House, an ice-fishing house she retrofitted as a mobile audio-recording studio, as an artist in residence at Lanesboro Arts September 16 – October 7, 2019 and Feb. 1 – 8, 2020. As an immigrant woman of color who has lived in the Midwest for the past twenty years, Cecilia invites community members to record their oral testimonies as they reflect on the significance of home, a concept that some of us may take for granted but is in flux for displaced communities around the globe. The Wandering House is designed to encourage curiosity and reflection, engaging participants in the production of collective knowledge and mutual understanding, while amplifying more nuanced narratives of rural life.
A Capstone Presentation and Discussion for The Wandering House project will happen Friday, February 7, 2020 at the St. Mane Theatre. For more on Cecilia’s residency in Lanesboro, visit: lanesboroarts.org/cecilia-cornejo.
Cecilia Cornejo is a Chilean-born documentary filmmaker, artist, and teacher based in Northfield, Minnesota. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Communications Studies from The University of Iowa and a Master of Fine Arts in Film, Video, and New Media from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. With ties to both the American Midwest and the central coast of Chile, Cecilia’s work explores notions of displacement and belonging and is rooted in the experience of living in-between cultures. She uses a range of approaches and production methodologies—from the very personal and essayistic to the expansive and collaborative—to create works that move fluidly from the local to the global, and from the intimate to the openly political. Cecilia is invested in developing methods of collaboration with the people who take part in her work by transforming documentary subjects into active participants, co-creators of meaning, and architects of their representation. She teaches in the Cinema and Media Studies Department at Carleton College.
