Lost Caves of St Louis

WHITE FLAG PROJECTS IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE ITS NEXT EXHIBITION:
EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF/
GOD AGAINST ALL

Curated by Hesse McGraw

Featuring artists Tim Hyde, Jill Magid, Lilly McElroy, Eric von Robertson,
Zachariah Rockhill, and Marco Boggio Sella

EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF/GOD AGAINST ALL is concerned with the state of being out of place and the process of becoming a stranger. The artists and films included highlight both the experience of the stranger and the native. The spaces explored by these artists are often contested and their works celebrate the tension between belonging and the unexpected guest. It’s irrelevant whether one perceives these places as arrival or departure, these works strip hierarchy, defer the right to property, blow out the boundaries of the city and forgive urgently. There is no hubris, only complete reciprocation and rampant trespassing. EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF/GOD AGAINST ALL seeks out spaces actively trespassed and forgiving of trespassers.

 

Installation at White Flag Projects  , based on an extensive network of karst systems that exist under downtown St. Louis and surrounding suburbs. This process retraced a book that mapped out entrances and former access points throughout the city, most of which remain invisible today. 

lighting scheme - show cave install

Lighting display adapted from typical show caves featured in the Ozarks region 

Lost Caves - install

Stalactite model and lounge

caves-stolen-cars

 

Lost Caves Stolen Cars


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Eric von Robertson works under the conceptual framework of CARL – The Center for the Advancement of Recreation and Leisure. As Robertson says, “CARL is a destination, a way of locating and rerouting the world around us, through a process of excursions and sculptural prototypes.” These prototypes are tossed into a series of field studies that travel between remote and urban landscapes – places where a large inflatable cushion of air is uncontrollably swept through the streets, to a pack of stray dogs sporting custom designed textiles that offer new routes and intersections for ‘City Guides’. As CARL’s excursions continue to meander through the Lost Caves of St Louis or across deserted islands in the Maldives, these places and misadventures become models in tourism and personally reflected souvenirs in the pursuit of recreation and leisure.

 

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