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# The Luminary Launches Counterpublic, a New Triennial Exhibition
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/luminary-counterpublic-triennial-exhibition-st-louis-2019/
- Published: 2019-04-04T15:09:57.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:54:08.000Z
- Description: The triennial exhibition is scaled to a neighborhood in St. Louis and will include thirty-plus site-responsive commissions. On view from April 13 to July 13.
- Author: The Luminary
- Tags: Announcement, Exhibition Announcement, Missouri, St. Louis, The Luminary, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:34 (2019, 2020, part 1)

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NIC Kay, Pushit! \[Exercise 1 in Getting Well Soon\], (2018), at the TBA, Portland, Oregon, 11 September 2018 Courtesy: Portland Institute for Contemporary Art.

From April 13 to July 13, 2019, The Luminary opens [*Counterpublic*](http://bit.ly/2YJuNos?ref=hyperallergic.com), a new triennial exhibition set to animate the everyday spaces of a single St. Louis neighborhood with expansive artist commissions, performances, processions, and public programs.

Organized by [The Luminary](http://bit.ly/2FMrILx?ref=hyperallergic.com), a nonprofit platform for art, thought, and action, [*Counterpublic 2019*](http://bit.ly/2YJuNos?ref=hyperallergic.com) will bring groundbreaking contemporary art to the barbershops, bakeries, parks, and taquerias that anchor the neighborhoods surrounding Cherokee Street in South St. Louis.

The project centers on a series of thirty-plus site-responsive commissions in venues as divergent as a tea shop, punk club, former sanctuary, Buddhist temple, Mexican panaderia, and many more. Works will range from architectural interventions to community-led sessions, meal-based gatherings to dramatic public processions.

Major new commissions include a film and installation in a former sanctuary from Cauleen Smith, a series of fictional museums from Jon Rubin and Joseph del Pesco and a large-scale outdoor installation from rising St. Louis-based artist Kahlil Robert Irving. Indigenous Diné transdisciplinary artist [Demian DinéYazhi](http://heterogeneoushomosexual.tumblr.com/%22%20%5Ct%20%22%5Fblank?ref=hyperallergic.com)´ will engage Cherokee Street and St. Louis’s complex histories with indigeneity and erasure through performance, poetry, and wheatpasted posters. Additional projects include a series of film installations from Sky Hopinka, food and drink focused experiments with John Riepenhoff and Rodolfo Marron III, and a performative procession through the neighborhood by NIC Kay to close the project.

Across its three-month run, [*Counterpublic* ](http://bit.ly/2YJuNos?ref=hyperallergic.com)will be activated by a full range of weekly public programs, from residencies and conversations with leading artists, to educational workshops, walking tours, and a youth-led publication.

Co-founders Brea and James McAnally propose that the project is “a community-oriented revision of the triennial form that builds bottom-up from the complexities, conflicts, and opportunities within a single place and offers space to imagine new ways of living and working together.” [*Counterpublic* ](http://bit.ly/2YJuNos?ref=hyperallergic.com)invites visitors to experience St. Louis – a city undergoing an active creative renaissance – offering a responsive vision for forward-thinking art in the public life of the city.

**For more information, visit** [**counterpublic.us.**](http://bit.ly/2YJuNos?ref=hyperallergic.com)