OVERFLOW

In 2019, an extensive network of artists brought all their senses to the Mississippi River, paddling downstream in canoes, venturing up multiple tributaries, clambering over collapsing infrastructures, trudging in its muddy banks, and experiencing the river's seasonal pulse. From the Headwaters in Minnesota to the Bird's Foot Delta in New Orleans, we set up research hubs, delved deep into written and oral histories, and created works of all kinds, including guided tours, performances, pamphlets, lectures, shared meals, and temporary shows for visitors and local inhabitants. Our concerns ranged across river ecologies, Indigenous, Black and settler-colonial histories, agriculture, urbanization, engineering, state and corporate violence, and the overflowing of liberation struggles that continue today. How to put all that into a single retrospective? What we've developed is an artist-run exhibition curating both new and existing works, gathering energy with an opening in Minneapolis before setting out on meanders further downstream. Love and chaos are the keys. Welcome to the OVERFLOW.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Kayla Anderson, Sara Black, Jeremy Bolen, Nick Brown, Jennifer Colton, Adam Crosson, Annie-Laurie Erickson, Beate Geissler, Amber Ginsburg, Ryan Griffis, Derek Hoeferlin, Brian Holmes, Sarah Kanouse, Jenny Kendler, John Kim, Brian Kirkbride, Emily Knudson, Sarah Lewison, Margarida Mendes, Marlena Novak, Steve Rowell, Oliver Sann, Michael Swierz, Joe Underhill, Monique Verdin, Joslyn Willauer, Paul Wu, Andy Yang, Jay Alan Yim

This event takes place in the 2nd floor gallery at the Q.arma building and is a companion art exhibition to Many Waters.