Matt Joynt + Josh Rios + Anthony Romero
Site: Love Bank Park
Josh Rios, Anthony Romero, and Matt Joynt present a newly commissioned performance and mobile sound monument for Counterpublic on Saturday, May 25th. Arising in resistance to legacies of over-policing in communities of color, specifically through noise ordinances, and the contexts of Cherokee Street as the center of Latinx culture in St. Louis, their mobile monument will fill the streets temporarily with an unruly sound installation roaming through the neighborhood as a siren sound evading capture.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Matt Joynt is a Chicago-based composer, artist and political activist whose work engages the multivalent political histories of sound, sonic archives, and sound as site. His composition projects for film have premiered at Sundance Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, IFC New York, SXSW Film Festival, and The Gene Siskel Film Center and have been featured extensively in media work for The New York Times, The New Yorker, and PBS Independent Lens. Collaborative projects - as a member of InCUBATE and with Josh Rios and Anthony Romero as Sonic Insurgency Research Group - have been exhibited at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Pulitzer Art Foundation, Smart Museum of Art, ICA Boston, The National Music Centre in Calgary, Luminary Arts in St. Louis, Autzen Gallery at Portland State University, the Devos Museum at Northern Michigan University, Center for Book and Paper Arts, The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and VPAM in Los Angeles. He won a 2017 Emmy for Outstanding New Approaches: Current News Award for his work on The Fight for Falluja with The New York Times. In 2019, he was shortlisted for an Oscar for the documentary Fire in Paradise.
Josh Rios is faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he teaches courses in visual critical studies and research-based practice. As a media artist, writer and educator, his projects deal with the histories, archives, and futurities of Latinx subjectivity and U.S./Mexico relations as understood through globalization and neocoloniality. Recent projects and presentations have been featured at The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha), the Blue Star Contemporary (San Antonio), and Konsthall C (Stockholm). Upcoming public activities include an exhibition at DiverseWorks (Houston), the Truth and Reconciliation Residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute (Santa Fe) and a catalog essay for an upcoming exhibition about the 1980s Artist Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America.
Anthony Romero is a Boston-based artist, writer, and organizer committed to documenting and supporting artists and communities of color. Recent projects and performances have been featured at The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha), the Blue Star Contemporary (San Antonio), and the Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Biennial (Calgary, Canada). Publications include The Social Practice That Is Race, coauthored with Dan S. Wang, and the exhibition catalogue Organize Your Own: The Politics and Poetics of Self-Determination Movements, of which he was the editor. He is a co-founder of the Latinx Artist Visibility Award, a national scholarship for Latinx artists produced in collaboration with artist J. Soto and OxBow School of Art, and a cofounder of the Latinx Artists Retreat, a national gathering of Latinx artists and administrators. He is Professor of the Practice at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston.
