[imc-st.louis] Fwd: Update: Chautauqua Art Lab Series at Fort Gondo 5/3-5/7

[Ben West]

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From: Ben West <westbywest at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, May 3, 2009 at 9:40 PM
Subject: Fwd: (criticalmass) Update: Cherokee St Artist Parade and
Chautauqua Art Lab Series at Fort Gondo.

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From: em Hemeyer <em_hemeyer at hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 5:11 PM
Subject: (criticalmass) Update: Cherokee St Artist Parade and
Chautauqua Art Lab Series at Fort Gondo.
To:

Hello Everyone!!!

This
is the current update and calendar for the People's Joy Parade and
Chautauqua Art Lab Series. As with many open projects this one has
been evolving exponentially. All events are free and open to the
public. Participatory audience encouraged.


Collaborate! Make! Play! Costume wearers and float makers welcome until
the parade ceases. Everyone and anyone is welcome to join in the
festivities at anytime.

If you have something you want to say
or music you wanna make join the the Chautauqua Art Lab. Its a free
interactive lecture series and way more fun than your average
university. Sound collaboration on Sunday. Bring anything that makes
noise even your old plastic recorder.


HERE'S THE INFO:

People's Joy
Parade, as part of Cherokee St. Cinco de Mayo
----
Saturday May
2, Beginning at 1:11pm from Compton to Texas on Cherokee St.

A few new exciting
additions ...

*Roosevelt High School is in. All 42 of them will play!
*Ire
Moped Crew will have between 15-20 bikers.
*Fort Gondo float with graffiti
artists and break dancers!
*Radio Cherokee float featuring Skarekrau Radio
playing on back.
*Maya Escobar will be dressed as Frida Kahlo.
*Emily Hemeyer as the Musical Bicycle- Apocalyptic Pegasus.
*Gyspy Wagon by Cameron Fuller.

More
info: http://artwanderlust.blogspot.com/
Cinco de Mayo: http://cincodemayostl.com/



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 3-7th 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), Juan William Chavez (Boots
Contemporary), Nita Turnage and Hap Phillips (Artica), David Wolk (Cranky
Yellow & Crammed Organisms), Eric Woods (Firecracker Press), James and
Brea McAnally (Luminary Center), Stephen Brien (All Along Press), Open
Lot and APOP Records.

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 (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.

Calendar http://www.tinyurl.com/constellate

Facebook- Chautauqua Art Lab

People’s Joy Parade blog http://artwanderlust.blogspot.com



-- 
Ben West
westbywest at gmail.com