Introduction BodyCartography Project (BCP), a Minneapolis-based dance collective of Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad, celebrate their twentieth anniversary with a tour that concludes at the Weisman Art Museum (WAM) in Minneapolis in the summer of 2018.  It began in the Performance Arcade festival in Wellington (New Zealand), and continued in SFMOMA (San Francisco). During this tour, Te Papa, the national museum of New Zealand, acquired BCP’s piece Walk with me as their first ever intangible dance acquisition—an extremely rare…

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This artist talk by Target Studio artist-in-residence Brooks Turner is a recording of the virtual event held on Oct. 28, 2020 and is available as part of WAM On Demand via the Weisman’s YouTube channel.    With the Teamsters Strike of 1934 and the success of the Farmer-Labor Party, Minnesota established itself in the 1930s as a U.S. center for progressive thinking and action across the political spectrum. At a distance, the Minnesota gubernatorial election of 1938 might appear as a simple synecdoche…

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This artist talk by Harriet Bart Brooks Turner was recorded live at an event held at Weisman Art Museum on Feb. 12, 2020 and is available as part of WAM On Demand via the Weisman’s YouTube channel.    Listen in on a conversation between Harriet Bart and exhibition curator Laura Wertheim Joseph, PhD: they talk about the artist’s life, work, and 2020 retrospective at the Weisman, Abracadabra and Other Forms of Protection. The Weisman’s exhibition is Harriet Bart’s first retrospective, Abracadabra and Other Forms…

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