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In the fall of 2018, artists and researchers embarked on a year-long residency program through a partnership between the Target Studio for Creative Collaboration and the UMN Medical School. This exhibition and subsequent programming culminate this year of shared exploration known as Art and Health. The title of this exhibition—Walk Back to Your Body—summarizes the research and knowledge that artists and medical researchers have gained. It is also a call to action.

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Join us on December 5th for a conversation with the artists and their collaborators, Dean of the Medical School Dr. Jakub Tolar, the Vice Dean for Research of the Medical School Dr. Tim Schacker, and curator Boris Oicherman. Walk in, walk out, walk around, walk back.

Walk Back to Your Body: Dr. Timothy Schacker

Dancers of all ages who wear hospital gowns with plastic gloves attatched are watched by a seated audience in the Target Studio Gallery at the Weisman.

  Last fall, four artists and five medical researchers embarked on interdisciplinary collaborations that, like Shogren and Talley’s project, Lifelong Choreographies (pictured above), have led to new cultural perspectives on complex medical questions. This series of blog posts is meant to highlight their processed before the culmination of these collaborations, taking place in the Target Studio on December 5. More info about that event here >> Vice Dean for Research at the UMN Medical School Dr. Timothy Schacker established himself as a…

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Walk Back to Your Body: Alison Hiltner

Bowl holding pink jelly substance with white electronic probes.

Last fall, four artists and five medical researchers embarked on interdisciplinary collaborations that have led to new cultural perspectives on complex medical questions. This series of blog posts is meant to highlight their processed before the culmination of these collaborations, taking place in the Target Studio on December 5. More info about that event here >> After visiting the Medical School’s Visible Heart Lab and Systems Regeneration Lab, artist Alison Hiltner began her artist residency beside Dr. Paul Iaizzo and Dr.…

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Walk Back to Your Body

  What does it mean to be in conversation with your body? Many social, cultural, and political conventions we live by today discipline how we experience our bodies. They are often defined by their productivity, utility, fitness, and so on, but rarely through vulnerability and reflection. Through this series of collaborations between artists and researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School, we ask you to consider the ways in which your body features (or, perhaps, does not feature?) in…

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