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Watershed art & ecology

Watershed art & ecology

  • Previous Shows
    • Jeanne Dunning – September 10 – October 29, 2022
    • Overflow: artworks from “Mississippi: An Anthropocene River”
  • Calendar
  • About Us
Watershed art & ecology
Watershed art & ecology
  • Calendar
  • Jeanne Dunning – September 10 – October 29, 2022
  • Justine Kurland: September 16 – October 21, 2023
  • About Us
  • Previous Shows
    • OVERFLOW: the Mississippi in every state imaginable

In 2019, an extensive network of artists brought all their senses to the Mississippi River, paddling downstream in canoes, venturing up multiple tributaries, clambering over collapsing infrastructures, trudging across muddy banks and experiencing the river’s seasonal pulse. From the Headwaters in Minnesota to the Bird’s Foot Delta in New Orleans we set up five research hubs, delving deep into written and oral histories and creating works of all kinds, including guided tours, performances, pamphlets, lectures, shared meals and temporary shows for visitors and local inhabitants. Our concerns ranged across river ecologies, Indigenous, Black and settler-colonial histories, agriculture, urbanization, engineering, state and corporate violence, and the overflowing of liberation struggles that continue today.

How to put all that into a single retrospective? What we’ve developed is a collectively organized exhibition curating both existing and new works, gathering energy with an opening in Minneapolis, then setting out for further meanders downstream. Just follow the water to the latest edition: from the Mississippi up the Illinois, to the North and South branches of Chicago’s Backward River. Co-Prosperity and a newly opened space, Watershed Art & Ecology, are the ports. The artistic research group Deep Time Chicago is the host. Love and chaos are the keys.

Welcome to the OVERFLOW

Also see:

Website from the Minneapolis version, with descriptions of individual works.

Map of "Mississippi: An Anthropocene River."

Anthropocene Curriculum website, for documentation of the entire project.

Justine Kurland’s show can be seen on Saturdays 2-7 pm, September 16 through October 21, 2023. Or by appointment — just text or email to make arrangements.

Watershed Art & Ecology
1821 S. Racine Ave, Chicago 60608
text: 773.383.9771
watershedartandecology@gmail.com

Justine Kurland will be present at Watershed for the opening on September 16. She will speak at Parlor Room, SAIC, Sharp 327, September 18 at 5:30 pm.