“Instruments of a Beating Heart” follows a group of first graders in Japan who form an orchestra to play Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy,” as part of a welcoming ceremony for the incoming class of 6-year-olds ...

Presented in the book I Know How Furiously Your Heart is Beating (as well as four concurrent exhibitions in San Francisco, New York, Berlin and his native Minneapolis), the series at times focuses on ...