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Lead & Coal: A Sounding
Please join us for Lead & Coal: A Sounding, a sound performance by NNN Cook, Nokosee Fields, and Josh Levi, with video by Gavin Kroeber and Aaron Owens.
This performance is one part of a wider, eponymous sound art and critical spatial practice project exploring Ozark mining landscapes, initiated in St. Louis’ constitutive hinterlands: the Old Missouri Lead Belt and Southern Illinois Coal Belt. 19th-century St. Louis can arguably be understood as an extractivist war machine: digging up Illinois coal, melting Missouri lead, producing armaments for the St. Louis Arsenal, and provisioning the genocidal military forces at Jefferson Barracks. Over the past year, artists NNN Cook, Nokosee Fields, Gavin Kroeber, Josh Levi, and Aaron Owens have been visiting these post-industrial territories and performing “soundings”—sonic experiments conducted on, in, at, with, and for the land. During this performance, Cook, Fields, and Levi will mark the culmination of the wider project with a new improvised sound composition, drawing on their work together in the field. Video by Kroeber and Owens will accompany the performance and copies of a new limited edition vinyl record by the artists, released by Cook’s Close/Far Recordings label, will be available for sale.
Friday, November 7th
Tulsa Artist Fellowship Project Space
205 East Archer Street Tulsa, OK 74103
Doors 6:30pm | Performance 7pm
Free
Vinyl edition preorders at www.close-far.com
The following day, Saturday November 8th, the artists have invited a group of OK-based sound practitioners and other invested community members to gather in the former lead mining town of Picher, OK for a day of sonic experimentation. Interested members of the public are invited to join for all or part of the day. More information and a registration link will be shared closer to the event.
Funding for Lead & Coal: A Sounding was provided by The Luminary’s Futures Fund, a regional regranting initiative made possible by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and Tulsa Artist Fellowship, a place-based, durational award dedicated to supporting visionary arts practitioners.
