HIJACK | HIJACK'S APARTMENT

September 17-19, 2026

HIJACK (Kristin Van Loon and Arwen Wilder) are making HIJACK'S APARTMENT — a fully improvised duet. This piece is the most hopeful survival strategy they can muster: Make it up again and again. Believe in body, dancing and each other. Listen, and try to do it differently than you ever did it before. The duo has been part of the Twin Cities experimental performance world for decades — and part of the Red Eye ecosystem specifically for nearly thirty years. Their KIN partnership is the continuation of a research relationship that long predates any formal commission. They are thought partners, experimenters, and co-builders of what Red Eye has become. The first to say yes to trying something new. Part of what this place is made of.

Red Eye presents KIN Artists Partnerships, a four part series of artists that pass through Red Eye with one animating principle: relationship. Enduring relationship.

Red Eye is part of a national network of artistic inquiry — and KIN is a significant step toward showing up to that conversation with intention and honesty. KIN is a response to the shifting needs of commissioned work, an experiment in interrupting the transactional way we value artistry.

Every artist that is a part of KIN brings something different — different resources, histories, forms of capital. Every artist has a relationship to real people, to Red Eye, Minneapolis, to the Twin Cities, to people and practices and communities that make this ecosystem what it is.

If KIN is about relationships– relationships to people and places - KIN is also about relationships to commissioning models, and artistic inquiry as transcontinental experimentation. KIN artists are sifting through the tethered immediacy of today. KIN is about queer tragedy, reflection, bending autobiography, and grief. KIN is about what is summoned through difficulty, what we owe ourselves, and what happens after collective life changing conditions. KIN is the most hopeful survival strategy we can muster: make it up again and again. Believe in body, dancing and each other.