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She works with photography, video, performance, installation, and textiles, deconstructing dominant historical narratives that are shaped and perpetuated by science and education, architecture, and mass media. The publication was created in the context of exhibitions at the Barbican Art Gallery in London and the Kunstmuseum Basel and brings together, for the first time, a selection of the artist's writings, lectures, and conversations, which offer personal insights and demonstrate her engagement with the consequences of power, artistic appropriation, the significance of music as inspiration, historiography, and the normative role of architecture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCARRIE MAE WEEMS (b. 1953, Portland, Oregon) studied photography and folklore studies at the University of California, Berkeley, after training in dance. 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