lauri stallings

17th Street Prairie: cycle III
2023-04-25 08:00 - 2023-12-31 17:00 UTC
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.
