Faculty member Moyra Davey premieres her film Notes on Blue at the Walker Art Center in the conference Super Script: Arts Journalism and Criticism in a Digital Age.

The Walker’s Bentson Commission series premieres with Moyra Davey’s new-28 minute film, Notes on Blue. This ongoing series invites six artists to respond to the inspirations, inquiry, and influence of artists in the Ruben/Bentson Collection—including, in the case of Davey and fellow commission recipient James Richards, responses to artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman. Notes on Blue is a lyrical film essay that interweaves various biographies (including those of Jarman, poet Anne Sexton, and the artist herself) to explore the subjective experience of mortality, color, and identity. After its Superscript premiere, Notes on Blue will launch online on the Walker Channel.

Moyra Davey, a Canadian-born artist living in New York, is a writer and visual artist known for the convergence of photography and film. Davey’s art is in the collection of major institutions including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among many others.