Cherokee St Chautauqua Art Lab (CQAL) series at Fort Gondo 5/3-5/8

Cherokee Street Chautauqua Art Lab (CQAL)

Map the multi-verse with controversial artists/speakers, pots and pans music makers, and film bricoleurs constellating for the temporary art and technology project co-organized by artists Emily Hemeyer, Sarah Paulsen, and Eric Repice. The series of nightly collaborative educational gatherings is inspired by the historical Chautauqua adult education movement in the US and features participatory panels, music soundscapes, and video screenings.

May 3-7 each night, 6:30 PM -10:00 PM

Fort Gondo, 3151 Cherokee Street, St. Louis, MO, USA

Learn, Include, Collaborate, Constellate. “Chautauqua is the most American thing about America”-- Theodore Roosevelt


Calendar of Events

Sunday, May 3: “Sound Improvisation and the Collective Consciousness.” Guests include: Dr. Keith Sawyer author of Group Genius, Diminished Capacity (Anna Lum and Rich O’Donnell), Ghosts I Have Been w/ recordings by Ghost Ice, and MMMelt (Daniel Shown). Followed by a recorded improvisational collaboration. Bring electronics, toys, gadgets, found objects, organic instruments and make noise!


Monday, May 4: “Local Go-getters and How They Began.” Public Forum Q & A
with presentations by Matt Strauss (White Flag), BJ Vogt (MAPS), Nita Turnage and Hap Phillips (Artica), David Wolk (Cranky Yellow & Crammed Organisms), Eric Woods (Firecracker Press), Open Lot, Luminary Center, All Along Press, and APOP Records. Music by Nate Henricks and friends.


Tuesday, May 5: “Expanding Personal and Collective Practices that Investigate Notions of Space, History, and Public Goods.” A discussion highlighting mapping, tagging, blogging, virtual studios, and YouTube as art spaces featuring Eric and Michelle DeLair Repice (Wash U), Michael Allen (Ecology of Absence), Ben West (WASABINET), Jordan Hicks (Open Lot), and live animation by Sarah Paulsen.

Wednesday, May 6: “Artist Viewpoints: Innovations and Boundaries in Community Art Practice.” Works and commentary by Cindy Tower, Lyndsey Scott, Keith Bucholdz (Fluxus), Peat Wollager, Maya Escobar and Anna Fullproof (Miss Rockaway Armada). Music by Bangerang.

Thursday, May 7: ”Exploratory Film Night: Time based art/video shorts exploring the use of found/appropriated images, collage and archives.” Including films by Jodie Mack (Chicago), Emily Foster (San Francisco), Tom Bussmann/Ken Brown, Jeremy Kannapell, Mike Pagano, Emily Hemeyer and more. Music by Kevin Butterfield and -Flowers. All proceeds benefit CAMP-Community Arts and Media Project.

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