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“Territorial Practices: A Conversation”: Monday Oct 5, 5-7pm

Territorial Practices:
A Conversation About Art, Sound, Land, and WaterWith Gavin Kroeber, Kole Galbraith and Warren Realrider, as well as local practitioners
Monday, October 5, 5-7 PM (light meal served afterwards)
Can you make art, not just for, but literally with the birds? Can such work be “brought back” to the gallery? What is territorial art, and what is the role of representation – particularly video and photography – within such practices?
Join visiting artists Kole Galbraith (Sinixt, Peoria), Warren Realrider (Pawnee, Crow) and artist-curator Gavin Kroeber (St Louis) for presentations of their recent work, as part of their travels through Illini Confederacy sites along the Illinois River. This exceptional conversation also serves as an opening or prequel to Four Days in the Illinois Country, a program of events and activities at Counterpublic in St Louis. Here in Chicago we hope to unfold the potentials of our own engagements with the Illinois River Valley and to imagine new or reactualized relationships with the local territory, with inputs from Ryan Griffis who just organized When the Landscape Recognizable Today was Shaped at Watershed Art & Ecology. This discussion will be held in the library, with the exhibition Watershed Cairns, by Libby Reuter and Joshua Rowan, on view in the gallery.
Guests

Kole Galbraith (Sinixt/Peoria) is a multi-disciplinary artist who focuses on sound, audio-visual, and found object installation. Based in Seattle, Washington, Kole Galbraith has been active in the underground experimental music community for the past decade performing throughout the West Coast of the United States and Europe. Sonically his sonic studio compositions are informed by musique-concrète, metal, jazz and contemporary composition. Thematically, the compositions are influenced by interior Salish folklore, and contemporary indigenous experience. Galbraith mixes using materials found in nature with electronic techniques to uncover both hidden sonic capabilities and their latent histories. Galbraith has worked with musicians including Lori Goldston, Greg Kelley, Jessika Kenney, Steve Moore, Raven Chacon, alyené vinokurova, Warren Realrider, Nathan Young, Catherine Guesde, Sean Waple, Jason Lazer, Patrick Wurzwallner, Maja Osojnik, morher and Noel Kennon.

Gavin Kroeber creates gatherings, excursions, and collaborative projects that explore the relationships between art, landscape, and cultural power. Working across visual art, curatorial practice, and performance, he brings interdisciplinary communities together to examine place through decolonial, ecological, and speculative frameworks. A 2025–2027 Tulsa Artist Fellowship Awardee, Kroeber is also a Creative Capital Awardee and an Andy Warhol Foundation Curatorial Research Fellow.

Warren Realrider is an interdisciplinary artist focusing on sound, site, and material to convey the intersecting time and ecological cycles moving through contemporary plains existence and Pâriru’. He is a Pawnee descendent and is a member of the Crow Nation of Montana. Warren received a bachelor’s degree in painting from the University of Oklahoma in 2000. He is currently in the 2024-2026 cohort of the Tulsa Artist Fellowship and Bemis Center for Contemporary Art’s Summer 2026 Sound Art + Experimental Music Artist-in-Residence.
Presented by Counterpublic and Tulsa Artist Fellowship
Previous shows and special events
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Video night: Living Museum of Watersheds, 7pm, Sept 23
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Journey to the Mississippi, August 21-23
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When the Landscape Recognizable Today was Shaped, Aug 29 – Sept 26
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A Weekend with a Wetland, June 12-14
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PERFORMANCE MIXTAPE #4, Sat, May 30, 7pm
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The Silent Claims of the Demon of Art: May 16 and 23 only
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Fereshteh Toosi: Dawn Soundcamp 2026, May 2, 5 AM!
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Lecture by Daniel de Paula: Mãe (2025), Saturday, April 11, 5pm
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Steve Rowell: “NATURAL STATE”, Friday, March 13 – Saturday, April 4
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Live performance: “CETACEAN” Feb. 12 & 13, 7pm
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Guild Literary Complex presents: “Mojo&Muse,” Feb. 7, 6pm
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Screening: Sille Kima, “Brilliance” (25′ 9″), January 11, 6 pm
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Chang-Ching Su: “Jigging Green” | Rhett Tsai: “Luring Bad,” Jan. 10-31
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Kao Ra Zen, “Hippy Holy Daze #8,” Dec 13
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Marie Lorenz: “Undertow,” Nov 8 – Dec 6, 2025
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Anthropocene Campus Chicago, Oct. 22-26
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Ro(b)//ert Lundberg: “by-passing-upon,” October 10-12
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PERFORMANCE MIXTAPE #3, Sat, Oct 4, 7pm
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Marina Resende: “Ground Value,” September 4-8
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Kim Nucci and AC Diamond: “Heart/Time,” Sunday, 7:30pm
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Under the Sun, As it Were – Thursday June 26, 5-9pm
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Tarot and Mermaids, June 20, readings 6:30 to 8:30
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PERFORMANCE MIXTAPE #2, Saturday June 14, 7pm
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Felipe Macia, “Practices of Place,” May 10 – June 7
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Saturday April 18: Brian Massumi in conversation with Matthew Goulish
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Spill Paint Not Oil: Poem for Entangled Living, March 23-29
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Roger Peet: Dig Up the Sun, April 12 – May 3
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Introducing Metabolic Rift
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Faheem Majeed and Southside Community Art Center
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A. LAURIE PALMER
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Dance performance: Elise Cowin and Josh Hoglund, June 6 – 7 – 8
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BADS_lab – Black Arts and Decolonial Sciences, May 10 -20
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Nina Elder and Alexis Elton: Performance, Sunday, April 28, 3-5pm
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Kishwacokee Kinship: Reimagining Relatives, March 16 – April 13, 2024
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Jeremy Bolen and Brian Holmes, February 17 – March 9, 2024
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David Nasca, Bleached Out Reef, January 13 – February 10, 2024
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A Devil and a Witch Make a Nail, December 2 – January 6
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Justine Kurland: September 16 – October 21, 2023
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Jeanne Dunning – September 10 – October 29, 2022
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OVERFLOW – the Mississippi in every state imaginable
