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Critical Spatial Practices St. Louis is a multi-platform convening that takes on the spatial politics of the city. Organized as an experimental, peripatetic conference linking a wide range of otherwise segmented institutions and audiences, CSPSTL constellates around a series of city-wide exhibitions addressing the entanglements between (sub)urbanism, landscape, and race.

As the second in the Divided City's Summer City Seminar, the conference brings together scholars and creative practitioners working at the intersection of spatial and political concerns, with a particular eye to the ways creative practice and historical research mingle in the fields of exhibition and institution building. Across a range of disciplines—art, architecture, geography, history, and urbanism—the participants all bring to the table a particular way of seeing, of responding to, and of communicating the imbrications of politics and space.

Central to the orientation of the seminar is building relationships among institutions, practitioners, and activists in St. Louis and beyond, and providing a platform for collaborative projects across the city. As a form of social practice itself, this paripatetic seminar will structure a convergence among institutions and projects in order to nurture critical dialogue around art, politics, and history in St. Louis. Our goal over the long weekend was to reflect upon, and to put into practice, a range of methodologies—historical, creative, architectural, geographic, etc.—that reorient our received ways of approaching the Divided City.

Toward Projective Institutions
The Vashon Museum


Care of the City
Michael Stone-Richards, Opening Keynote
Pulitzer Arts Foundation


   

Critical Spatial Practices St. Louis
Jesse Vogler
Kristin Fleischman-Brewer
with
The Divided City

Speakers and Panelists
Nicholas Senn Brown
Jennifer Colten
Lois D. Conley
Keller Easterling
Andres L. Hernandez
Walter Hood
Andrew Hurley
Aaron Levy
Gwen Moore
Calvin Riley
Michael Stone-Richards
Amanda Williams

Schedule
Care of the City
Michael Stone-Richards
Opening Keynote
Pulitzer Arts Foundation


Landscapes of Erasure
Jennifer Colten
Gwen Moore
and Nicholas Senn Brown
The Sheldon Gallery


Performance and the City
Abigail DeVille
David Hartt
Kelly Shindler
and Maya Stovall
Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis

Administrative Affect
Jesse Vogler
A performative/historical city processional
from Grand Center to St. Louis Place

Toward Projective Institutions
Lois D. Conley
Calvin Riley
Andrew Hurley
and Aaron Levy
The Vashon Museum


Building and Unbuilding the City
Amanda Williams
Andres L. Hernandez
and Walter Hood
in association with
A Way, Away (Listen While I Say)
A PXSTL Collaboration

Pulitzer Arts Foundation

Subtraction
Keller Easterling
Closing Keynote
Pulitzer Arts Foundation


Special Thanks
Jean Allman
Lyndon Barrois Jr.
Patty Heyda
Bruce Lindsey
Tila Neguse
Rebecca Wanzo

Support
Mellon Foundation
Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities