lauri stallings

i came to explore the sun, of something more permanent, the moves are maps
2025-05-03 - 2025-05-04
Intervention. Organized by Sandrine Lacoste, project director.
Marais de Bonnefont Marsh Reserve, Old Tool Conservatory, and various public spaces.
Mayrinhac – Lentour, Bordeaux, France.

Atelier Artist Residency
2025-04-12 - 2025-04-26
Artist in Residence, research and intervention support. Village Saint Ceneri, France.

Rite Works (Rite of Spring)
2025-01-29 - 2025-02-02
Work for the stage. A commission of Maestro Robert Spano and Ft. Worth Symphony.
Opening January 28 – February 2, 2025, Bass Center.
Works in Process, Atlanta, November 2024
Works in Process | Artist Talk, The Kimbell Art Museum, Ft. Worth January 2025

The Traveling Show
2024-09-08 - 2024-11-03
Long – term project to the rural South.
2024: Coffee County, GA.
Made possible with support from Olivia Coley – Pearson, JustICE Pops, and Georgia Council for the Arts.

People Movement Shops at the High Museum of Art
2024-05-15 10:00 - 12:00, 2024-04-17 10:00 - 12:00 UTC
People Movement Shops
feeling together by moving together.
A space of experimentation where we aim to feel together by moving together. Join this wonderful experience of delving into small and big acts, available to us so much, to explore textures and sounds in the environment of the space, and most importantly deeper connections between us. With these ephemeral actions, the participants collectively built a new environment—an ideal city generated from the movement of participants.
3rd Wednesdays of the month beginning April 17
10am-noon
High Museum of Art
free and public to all
Most of the workshops will be held inside the museum that is surrounded by various sculptures and trees, allowing for different qualities of light to filter into the environment as the workshop progresses. Workshops will be informed often by the light, noting the ways in which it interplays with the textures and atmospheres of the space.
These workshops are a sharing of systems which inform glo platforms recent live art/ works as well as research connected to my practice amidst offerings of reimagination. stallings tends to focus on “mapping,” referring to our constantly unfolding world that resists finality.
Come with pleasure and excitement in a space built for free experimentation and joyous movement research!
Shops are for everyone no previous experience required/ the shops are free.
Thank you to Erin Dougherty Associate Director of Public Programs, Education, and High Museum of Art.

Rite Works (cycle II)
2024-03-15 19:30 - 2024-03-17 23:00

Research + Process Residency: National Center for Civil and Human Rights
2024-01-26 12:00 - 2024-06-15 17:00
lauri is a research/process resident artist at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in 2024 to support her work across the Deep South, and research spiritual rhythm and aspects of life there.Starting with the premise that all people belong, stallings research concerns the spiritual significance of the rhythms through which humans live. The six-month residency extends support for generative process with lauri and glo moving artists Zandia Covington, Mary Jane Pennington, and Mechelle Tunstall. A series of Works in Process are offered to the public in May and June.

work in process: A new Rite
2023-11-30 12:00 - 13:30
Please join glo for a Work in Process, Thursday, November 30, at noon. A place for somatic spiritualisms and communing, Rite is our new collaborative live art work with Maestro Robert Spano. With care, and love, and ideas about what it is to be pulled into a ritual, we join across communities and practices for a beautiful journey with you over the next year.
Location:
rehearsal hall, Atlanta Symphony Hall
1280 Peachtree St. NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30309
enter at Production entrance, Arts Center Way & 15th Street
Free and open to all
From the bottom of my heart, thank you Atlanta Symphony for an ongoing space residency.

Topography of Relations: Jule Museum
2023-10-26 11:00 - 20:00
Topography of Relations ( in process) Jule Museum
Thursday, October 26, 11am – 8pm
Auburn, AL
free and public

Topography of Relations forages movement to continue lauri’s exploration of social choreographies as a toolbox for mapping through the regenerative environments of the Deep South. The works research alongside American artist Sam Moyer’s foraging practice has strengthened our conviction to living as we do-on the edge-and a particular way of seeing reality- looking both from the outside in and from the inside out, in love.

Topography of Relations is organized by Randi Evans, and Chris Molinski, with support from Asia Bender.

Love and light to this beautiful Topography of Relations team: artist Sam Moyer, social practice choreographer lauri stallings, Praxis Associate Mechelle Tunstall, Artistic Associate Mary Jane Pennington, moving artist PhaeMonae Brooks, moving artist Kristi-Ann Lungren-Walker, and glo general Manager Richard Carvlin.

I AM: mounds and Edens
2023-07-24 08:00 - 2023-08-06 17:00
A synthesis of bodies, movement, spoken word, and sound intertwine in a sensory space. I AM is an immersive art experience for the stage, and film, created in Atlanta.
July 24-August 6, 2023
I AM is a commission of BrightStar Pictures production.

Barefoot Island
2023-05-21 08:00 - 2023-07-05 17:00 | Cochran Mill Park
Barefoot Island is a social sculpture, an abundant oasis of blooming edible plants and public art on a small reclaimed deck that hosts a new project where people can come and pick food for free and engage in community programming at the intersection of social service, movement, and well-being.
How can art function to bring about tangible change in the world? These are concerns I share with my close collaborators Janelle Dunlap, Keif Schleifer, and Kebbi Williams. Barefoot Island advances our individual practices of choreography, architecture, visual art, and music, to have an absolutely clear citation of the people who move us: our community. It feels less like it is about art. The art, in this case, is about a deep belief in the power of human beings to become our best selves, biodiverse, living whole treasures.
Like art, and the river, the work points to restoration, and maybe paradise, it suggests, can be regained as we confront the relationship between humans and our impact on the world. A sound installation of atmospheric rhythms and a pulsating hum—similar to the flow of water—along with artist-led workshops, and research | pedagogy, aim to reflect on how similar we are to water and how it breathes just like we do—if we only decide to listen to it. With Barefoot Island, we set out to provide a solution to the question, how can we consider art, food, and the river as a common right and resource in Fulton County.
Cochran Mill Park
6875 Cochran Mill Rd, Palmetto, GA 30268
Project launch May 21- July 5, 2023
The launch of Barefoot Island is made possible through the Atlanta Contemporary/Nexus Fund Regranting Program, with support from the Andy Warhol Foundation.

17th Street Prairie: cycle III
2023-04-25 08:00 - 2023-12-31 17:00
Reimagined from a yet-to-be-developed 2.5 acre lot, 17th Street Prairie creates the illusion of being on a prairie in the middle of the city. My approach to Land Art is the same as our choreographic thinking- a hybridity of forms emphasizing interconnectedness, solidarity networks, and art making as a care system.
April-December 2023
Midtown Atlanta
Made possible with major support of Jaimie Dewberry and the Dewberry Foundation.

The Traveling Show: rural Alabama
2023-03-27 08:00 - 2023-06-01 17:00
research | residency one
The Traveling Show long-term project to rural South communities
various public sites and outdoor spaces, Wilcox County, Alabama
We are elated to offer the first of multiple residences to this deeply spiritual community.
processional choreographies along the deepest mixed forests
dirt sidewalk dances on paths of love and compassion
black Belt prairies
washed in and settled to the sea bottom some 70 million years ago
our unique embodied vernacular exists in supple dialogue
with, and in homage to the quilters.
like Gee’s Bend, my practice, glo aesthetic grew out of an ethos
of self-reliance and communal care:
will, of the spirit, what keeps us going
will is power, direct action maps our bodies in action
(you asked us yesterday about our arrows, mine is often will, and that strength is passed down to me and I use it, thank you, and I continue it on)
what does this yield?
in service to Gee’s Bend people
in service to Camden people
in service to Selma people
land
movement
to love places wounded, for regrowth
a return of kindness
The Traveling Show depicts people and more than humans searching, extending, and praying–but also surveying, making life, art, and holding onto each other under the pressure to come apart.
Thank you, NEA, for your support of The Traveling Show 2023.

WE'RE NOT UNREACHABLE, WE'RE NOT UNREACHABLE
2022-02-14 05:00 - 12:00 | Goat Farm Arts Center, 1200 Foster Street, Atlanta, GA, 30318, United States
research project (2010-2022)
a compilation of detailed catalogs for social practice choreographies of a variety of species, memories, plumb lines, spirit levels, and moves; a sort of reverse archaeographer excavation attempting to access bodies, viscera, illusion and reality, all bound into one. when i arrived on the farm a long time ago i was baffled by her intricacies; those complexity remains downright terrifying. glo complete works have activated many sites but never corner studio, so i’m really very humbled for this call in of our beloved community to this sacred space you’ve provided us on this journey. also, our neon studies initiative is currently distributed throughout the rural south for the exception of no. 7. large-scale in a brilliant gold, i wish to offer this art piece, and her message- beautiful stranger thank you for coming– as a a vision that extends the skies like big ass cosmos- in tandem with the goat farm’s re/construction.
glo’s departure from the farm has been determined for February 15.
