Xochitl Plancarte + General Sisters, “Spreading out a woven blanket so that we can find each other here"
Date: Friday, June 9, 2023
Time: 7-9PM
Location: Carnegie Park
Details:
A gathering hosted by Xochitl Plancarte.
Please gather on a blanket with colors made from avocados and black beans, woven on a four harness loom. Carnegie Park, or more so a park that holds histories and fantasies of what we will make together. An invitation to soften a surface and inhabit this park. Where do we go to be seen? Where is the scene? How do we cultivate these spaces while also holding space for safety/nurturing/self-preservation/protection? Are there public spaces in St. Louis that resonate or are this for you? If these public spaces and languages for connection don't fully exist, let's talk about what they might be.
In Movement Transmissions, General Sisters collaborators Ginger Brooks Takahashi and Dana Bishop-Root invite visitors to explore open pathways constructed of words that suggest, but do not designate, routes. These pathways were designated in collaboration with four artists active in St. Louis’s justice movements—Dail Chambers, Dustin Gibson, Basmin Nadra, and Xochi Plancarte—and repopulate public spaces along Jefferson Avenue with memories of people, buildings, and actions that are no longer present. General Sisters also considers the plants that occupy those places: plants that also have stories to tell. Together, plants and people highlighted in Movement Transmissions co-narrate histories of displacement, carcerality, and environmental racism as well as joys found in communities and solidarity-building.
Xochitl Plancarte’s gathering is the first of three Movement Transmissions, formed in collaboration with General Sisters.
