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July 14, 2020 Due to COVID-19, WAM is closed until further notice.

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Target Studio: Incubator Project

You are invited to the inaugural broadcast of Radio Rhizome: a radio station dedicated to immigrants’ rights, created by Nooshin Hakim Javadi and Pedram Baldari. The event will be centered around an open conversation between the audience and the collaborators, to learn more about their process while in residence at the Target Studio.

Developed in collaboration with the U of M Law School’s Center for New Americans, Javadi and Baldari will generate a broadcast program of interviews, storytelling, and sound performances. The event will be co-presented with Deepinder Mayell, the executive director of the James H. Binger Center for New Americans and director of the Center’s Education and Outreach Program of the Law School. Supported by Stardust.

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Incubator Project | Radio Rhizome

Nooshin Hakim Javadi and Pedram Baldari created a mobile radio station that acted as a platform for connecting with researchers of immigration, mobility, and trauma. The Center for New Americans and the University’s Law School and the Target Studio served as their bases. They developed a program of broadcasts—interviews, storytelling, and sound performances—and established a discursive program of engagement with academic and immigrant communities. Javadi and Baldari hope to use the radio transmission as a tool and as a metaphor, envisioning…

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Target Studio for Creative Collaboration Spring 2019 Incubator Residencies

ACT×4 When artist Marina Abramović famously declared The Artist Is Present, the immediate follow-up question that could be asked is: “present to what end?” Can we think of a physical presence of an artist in a gallery as having a goal? Presence is an action: performance is the most affordable form of making, the most direct form of engagement with space, surroundings, and society. And the first thing to do is to dispel the expectation that the term “performance” has…

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Collaboration Incubator Program

Eight headshots of eight different artists, arranged in two rows of four images. Clockwise from top left: Amoke Kubat, Shanai Matteson, Brooks Turner, Rebecca Merblum, Monica Sheets, Wafaa Bilal, Rosy Simas, and Gudrun Lock.

Artists in the Collaboration Incubator program commit to short-term projects intended to lay the foundation for a longer term relationship of the artist with academic collaborators. Artists are given a stipend and a project budget to spend time in the University, establish networks, use the Target Studio to advance the project, and prepare project proposals to seek future funding.  The ultimate goal of the program is to establish a collaboration that will evolve into a long-term relationship.   PROJECTS | SPRING…

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