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BodyCartography Project celebrates 20 years of making dances
BodyCartography Project celebrates 20 years of making dances
with a new
commission for Te Papa’s permanent
collection and an immersive installation for
the
Performance Arcade in 2018.
Body Cartography Project was
founded in 1998 by New Zealander Olive Bieringa
in
Wellington and San Francisco with Otto Ramstad (USA).
Together they have
created performances, installations,
films, workshops, talks, festivals and
curatorial
projects around the world.
Honors include a grant from the
Foundation for Contemporary Art in 2015, the
Twin Cities
City Pages Dance Company of the Year award in 2013 and
multiple
NZ Fringe Festival awards between 1998 and 2003
for the site spectacle Lagoon, amongst other works.
(http://bodycartography.org/portfolio/frank-kitts/)
The
mission of BodyCartography Project is to engage with the
vital materiality of our bodies to create live performance
that facilitates a re-enchantment of
embodiment,
relationship, and presence.
In March 1998 they presented
23 projects around the Wellington waterfront. In
March
2018 they will present a 13 hour performance installation
felt room at the
Performance Arcade, alongside a new
performance commission for the permanent collection of
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa as part
of
Abstract Aotearoa. In March they will also present
work at SFMOMA in San
Francisco as part of the Robert
Rauschenberg Erasing the Rules exhibition. In
the summer
of 2018 they will present four projects at the Weisman Art
Museum
in
Minneapolis.
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