Originally published on March 17, 2021 7:46 pm
The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis’ new Stories of Resistance exhibit takes a multifaceted approach to depicting resistance and its many forms across the world. It includes video, photography, drawing, sculpture and painted installations by 19 artists.
It also includes the museum’s first podcast. “Radio Resistance” is an 11-episode production that features conversations between exhibiting artists, local activists, scholars and politicians delving into St. Louis’ role in activism, and activism more broadly.
“My job as an educator is really to think about how to help people connect, and in particular, in the exhibition Stories of Resistance, how to listen to those stories,” explained podcast co-producer Michelle Dezember. “We wanted to really think about how to hear those rich connections to the history and context of resistance and protest work here in St. Louis. And so we really thought about the form of radio as b
Stories of Resistance explores forms of resistance across the world
Guadalupe Maravilla. Disease Thrower #4, 2019. Mixed media. Courtesy of the artist and P·P·O·W, New York.
ST. LOUIS, MO
.-The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis presents Stories of Resistance, a major group exhibition that explores artistic forms of resistance from across the world. Through visual narratives, the artists amplify and bring to focus the multitude of conditions that ignite and inspire people to resist. Resistance emerges from both within and outside of governmental, corporate, or institutional structures and systems of power. It takes shape in labor movements, protests, and in speaking out about injustice. Resistance is as loud as shouts, drums, and mass marches in the streets, and as quiet as hands sifting through archives, recovering and rewriting histories that had been erased. Stories of Resistance is on view from March 12 through August 15, 2021.