Gavin Kroeber is an artist, writer, and head of the interdisciplinary curatorial office The Studio for Art & Urbanism. His projects and writings, which poach from visual art, urban theory, and performance, are concerned with cultural dynamics of power and their expression in the poetics of place. He is Artistic Director of New Cities, Future Ruins, a multi-year arts initiative exploring planetary crises of rapid urbanization, migration, and sustainability through the cities of America’s Western Sun Belt. He is co-founder of the nomadic curatorial platform Experience Economies and was producer at the New York public art presenter Creative Time from 2005- 10. He is recently based in St. Louis, where he initiated At the Edge of Everything Else, an interdisciplinary social space for artists, architects, and urbanists and is currently organizing The Autumnal City, a festival of art and ideas exploring urbanism and futurism in the context of the post-industrial Midwest.
This ART 158 lecture series event took place March 14, 2018, in the University of Utah Art Building, Salt Lake City, UT. Made possible through the generous support of the Carmen Morton Christensen Endowment, the Department of Art & Art History, the College of Fine Arts, and ASUU.
