Chris Kallmyer

PROJECTS

COMMONFIELD CLAY

Earthenware bell from the banks of the Mississippi River. Cathartic noise - occupying space - artists and activists holding open rehearsals on instruments made from common brick clay found underneath the soil in St. Louis, MO.

The project embodied a kind of diagonal hyper-regional future-folk music through local materials and communally authored music. The ceramic chimes were used in a workshop and performance for 250 local people who came to listen, reflect, watch the moving light within Tadao Ando’s building in central St. Louis.

GRATITUDE to the performers and craftspeople who worked on this project - especially Dan Barnett who taught us about local clay and how to make it a part of our work.

2015

INQUIRE

The gallery functioned as an open and rehearsal space — part laboratory and part sanctuary — made active by a tight cohort of artists, activists, poets, and urban planners.

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