Join projects+gallery for an evening inspired by current exhibition “sky every day,” featuring sound performances by local artists Nathan Cook, Alex Cunningham and Kevin Harris.

Doors open at 7:00PM and performance starts at 7:30PM.

“sky every day,” titled after a 1968 poem by Aram Saroyan, is a group exhibition of work in which materials function literally rather than metaphorically — locating the expressive gesture in principal choices, processes and forms rather than the illusionistic tradition of descriptive marks. Artworks here communicate across disjunctive gaps within the gallery similar to spare, enjambed lines of Minimalist poetry — a formal genre in which words, punctuation and syntax become primary media.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Nathan Cook

close-far.com / nnncook.com / @nnncook

Multi-disciplinary sound artist, visual artist, and graphic designer, Nathan Cook’s work often considers the acoustic and spatial qualities of physical settings as he utilizes sound as a transient, duration-based medium that encourages extended and focused listening. He believes this approach fosters patience, concentration, and introspection.

Cook runs the Close/Far Recordings experimental music label which publishes cassettes, zines, and art prints. Past commissions include the Laumeier Sculpture Park for Site/Sound, the World Chess Hall of Fame for a performance of John Cage’s Reunion, the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis for Audible Interruptions, a residency with High Concept Laboratories (Chicago), a performance for the Oscillations series at Experimental Sound Studios (Chicago), and a commissioned composition for Alarm Will Sound (NYC) for the opening of the Public Media Commons in 2014.

He has been documenting the work of St. Louis sound artists and experimental musicians over the last six years by publishing the Rhizomatic St. Louis compilation. For the past five years Cook has also been running a bi-monthly concert series called Bruxism which focuses on presenting St. Louis sound art, jazz, noise, free improvisation, electronic, ambient, and avant-garde music.

Alex Cunningham

alexcunninghamviolin.com

Alex Cunningham is a violinist, improviser, and visual artist based in St. Louis, MO. Their work explores free improvisation, drone, noise, and minimalist composition. Cunningham’s current ongoing collaborations include a duo with electronic musician Kevin Harris, a trio with saxophonist Bob Bucko Jr (Dubuque, Iowa) and drummer Alexander Adams (Chicago, Illinois), and the free improvised duo Apathist! with guitarist Chris Trull (Yowie, Grand Ulena). Past collaborations include the groups Vernacular String Trio, Hess/Cunningham Duo, and Hardbody.

Cunningham’s collage work has appeared on various album covers and concert posters. He was named St. Louis’ “Best Concert Poster Designer” by the Riverfront Times in 2015. His visual work has been shown at Hoffman LaChance Contemporary, Resident Arts, Blank Space, and the Thomas Dunn Learning Center and has been featured on bus stops in St. Louis as part of St. Louis Metro’s “Arts in Transit” initiative.

Kevin Harris

kevinharrisart.org/

Based in St. Louis, multimedia artist, curator, composer, and electrical engineer Kevin Harris’s practice seeks to create communal conditions by which to explore experimental psychology, fictitious interactions and emotions, and time-scales outside the perception of typical human experience. His most recent work uses video, performance art, and transistors to explore elemental aspects of progressively occurring media relationships as they relate to content and form.

In 2016, Harris designed Octarrarium, A multi sensory media environment housed inside the Regional Arts Commission. He was artist in residence at The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis in 2014, where he curated the sound art series, Audible Interruptions. Prior to that, he ran and curated the St. Louis performance space Floating Laboratories. He is currently program director at the non-profit arts organization, Hearding Cats Collective and holds a BA in music and an MFA in sculpture. His work has been shown nationally in many small galleries and group shows.