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Oct 14 ❄️ Today's performance of THEM, an activation by artist Piotr Szyhalski, has been canceled due to the weather. Join… https://t.co/lDHCarHsW4

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These performances and activations will open the Target Studio Collaboration Culmination and Performance, which also features a Conversation on Performance and Public Art and Variations of Sounds Traveling Between a Barrel and a Heart.

Performances, installations and activations by the artist-fellows of the Target Studio for Creative Collaboration: Aniccha Arts and Pramila Vasudevan, Terry Hempfling and Rachel Jendrzejewski, Nooshin Hakim and Pedram Baldari, Marcus Young and his students at the Art for Social Change program at HECUA, Anna Marie Shogren, Peng Wu, Yuko Taniguchi, Alison Hiltner, Daniel McCarthy Clifford, and Monica Sheets.

Meet Boris Oicherman, WAM’s Cindy and Jay Ihlenfeld Curator for Creative Collaboration, for an informal conversation about the Target Studio for Creative Collaboration program.

Free and open to the public.

Target Studio for Creative Collaboration

The Target Studio for Creative Collaboration at WAM is a unique museum space dedicated to collaborations between artists and scholars. It is a workplace, a convening space, a laboratory, a gallery, and a classroom. It hosts workshops, discussions, exhibitions, performances, and symposia. It is dynamic, evolving, and unpredictable, as all true collaborations are. The program of the Target Studio does not stop at the museum walls. Its relationships spread across departments at the University of Minnesota and throughout the Twin…

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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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Lifelong Choreographies

Register to attend the culmination event of Anna’s work here>> Anna Marie Shogren is a dance artist in the Twin Cities whose uses dance and the language of contact in healthcare practices to enhance quality of life. Kristine Talley is an associate professor in the School of Nursing and director of the Center for Aging Science & Care Innovation. Together they examine how dancers and caregivers can collaborate on developing creative, innovative treatment and care practices to improve geriatric care outcomes and communities. In November,…

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