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Water Acknowledgement, and Performance by The Wah.zha.zhe Puppet Theatre
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Join us at Sugarloaf Mound for a closing event of Counterpublic 2023 featuring a performance by The Wah.zha.zhe Puppet Theatre, a water acknowledgement with artist Anita Fields, and a conversation between Dr. Andrea Hunter (Osage Nation) and Fields, sited at her WayBack installation adjacent to the mound.
New Red Order and Cahokia Intertribal Noise Symposium Presents: "The Gathering"
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New Red Order and Cahokia Intertribal Noise Symposium Presents: The Gathering, an innovative live event format that splits the difference between the Gathering of Nations Pow Wow and the Gathering of the Juggalos. Combining public assembly, academic symposium, music festival, and film screening, the two day event will conjure new pasts and ancient futures of the-place-currently-called St. Louis. Artists, activists and academics share the line-up with rappers and noise musicians in order to present a discursive and hallucinatory trip towards collectively convoking crimes against reality.
New Red Order and Cahokia Intertribal Noise Symposium Presents: "The Gathering"
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New Red Order and Cahokia Intertribal Noise Symposium Presents: The Gathering, an innovative live event format that splits the difference between the Gathering of Nations Pow Wow and the Gathering of the Juggalos. Combining public assembly, academic symposium, music festival, and film screening, the two day event will conjure new pasts and ancient futures of the-place-currently-called St. Louis. Artists, activists and academics share the line-up with rappers and noise musicians in order to present a discursive and hallucinatory trip towards collectively convoking crimes against reality.
Raven Chacon "Drum Grid" Performance
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Raven Chacon’s Drum Grid is a composition for numerous drummers, each positioned on a street corner throughout the Benton Park neighborhood. Beginning with a single drum hit from one player, subsequent drummers imitate the sound of the previous drummer down the block, with the gesture evolving as it travels around the neighborhood.
"Dust" Performance with Kevin Beasley, Darrell Jones, Ralph Lemon, and Okwui Okpokwasili
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This performance will be held near the (imagined) site of Josephine Baker's childhood home. (Her home, among many, was included in the demolition of the Mill Creek Valley neighborhood.)
Mendi + Keith Obadike's "SlowDrag" Procession
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Experience Mendi + Keith Obadike’s SlowDrag, a sound installation consisting of cars moving through the St. Louis Place neighborhood playing numerous simultaneous remixes of a song (an interpolation of “Black Angel Blues”) created by the artists.
Their sonic procession relies on the shape and form of the neighborhood to determine the route. Curated by Allison Glenn and realized in part in collaboration with Muhammad “Mvstermind” Austin. Departing from St. Louis Place Park, the procession will last approximately one hour.
Raven Chacon's "Music for 13 Paths" Performance
Join us in Benton Park for a performance of Raven Chacon’s “Music for 13 Paths,” a new sound installation.