Dail Chambers + Jen Everett, Ecology Archive
Date: Saturday, June 24, 2023
Time: 11AM-1PM
Location: MSD: Green Roof Pavilion, 2350 Market St. St. Louis, MO 63103
Details:
Water is life. The public will join together to honor/heal the water, water systems, and Mississippi River through sound art and ritual. Chambers will lead the healing experience. In this site-specific ekphrastic response, Chambers attempts to encapsulate the movement of people, water, and nature through sound.
Notes for attendees:
Participants should wear white and consider something they would like to release in preparation for this experience.
This is an outdoor event, drinking water will be available onsite.
Dail Chambers works with ancestors, the environment, and tradition to reclaim and transform public spaces of neglect, pollution, and mistreatment. Chambers is a mother, artist, healer, and environmentalist that practices social sculpture. Her work is deeply connected to her southern roots, expressing the American Black Migration, Native lands and people, women's issues, and emerging economies. She is a doula, coach, permaculturist, and more.
Jen Everett is an artist from Southfield, Michigan, currently based in Saint Louis, Missouri. Her practice moves between lens and time based media, installation and writing. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally at art spaces including Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Krannert Art Museum, SCAD Museum of Art, Kunsthall Stavanger, Seattle University’s Hedreen Gallery and Flux Factory. Jen has been an artist in residence at the Fire Island Artist Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Atlantic Center for the Arts and ACRE. She was a 2021-22 Duke University DocX Archive Lab fellow. Her work is in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) at Columbia College - Chicago.
