Chris Kallmyer | Artist Lecture

The lecture will explore Chris Kallmyer’s practice with a focus on the emerging relationships between audience and performer – artist and community – material and environment. Through this talk we will explore the creative strategies employed by futurist experimentalists, pre-enlightenment collectivists, and the artist’s ongoing site-specific projects on working lands.

 

Kallmyer’s lecture will launch CATTLELAND: a series of residencies by Kallmyer at Texas A&M that integrates the agricultural sciences, environmental studies, and the visual and performing arts utilizing live cattle, bells, and the rewilding of land they occupy. Throughout the year, CATTLELAND will foster a conversation about the significance of grazing lands through forums, rigorous inquiry, speculative proposals, exhibitions, sound installations, and handmade objects.

 

 

BIO

 

Chris Kallmyer is a musician working at the intersection of art, architecture, and design. Through his work he creates collective experiences driven by his interests in listening, landscape, and community. His multi-disciplinary projects have been exhibited and performed at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Walker Art Center, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and STUDIO TeatrGaleria in Warsaw among other spaces in America, Europe, and Asia.

 

In 2021, he founded the Furniture Music, a design studio that creates research-based sounding goods for architectural applications. Current projects include a new collection of wind chimes for the California luminaries Commune, a granite fountain to mark the home of a blind potter, and a redwood amphitheater for an elementary school. FM is a studio where each project aims to promote social well-being through sound and the principles of bioregional design.

 

Date and Time: September 26th | 7PM – 9PM

Location: Rudder Theatre

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