The BodyCartography Project was founded in 1998 and is co-directed by dance and video artists Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad. We investigate the relationship between the body and space in urban, domestic, wild and social landscapes through dance, performance, video, and installation, workshops and festivals. Our works range from intimate solos for the street or stage, to large community dance works in train stations, short experimental films in national parks, to complex works for site or stage amidst installations of video and sound in collaboration with scientists.

In 2010 we created three new works. We collaborated with physicist Bryce Beverlin II and composer Zeena Parkins on ½ Life that addressed the impact of nuclear issues around the Pacific from a scientific, cultural and environmental perspective and manifest as an installation and performance. Symptom, a collaboration with visual artist Emmet Ramstad and composer Andrea Parkins, explored the gaps between seeing and knowing, inspired by the works of Dan Graham and Bruce Nauman. Mammal, a commission for Lyon Opera Ballet, explored the edge between nature and culture with Zeena Parkins and Emmett Ramstad.