Kemper Live: Collective Futures

Join us for the annual performance event Kemper Live to celebrate the exhibition Seeds: Containers of a World to Come through music, dance, and art-making.

Free and open to the public.

2–4 pm | Planting Microgreens and Art Activity with Seed St. Louis

Decorate your own container and get your hands dirty planting microgreens to cultivate at home.

2:15–2:30 pm | Museum Lobby

Juan William Chávez: Imaynatataq Papawan Sumaq Ch’in Chisi
(How to Spend a Nice Quiet Evening with a Potato)

Featuring experimental sounds from the Peruvian Andes, this 15-minute performance is complemented by video projections celebrating the ancestral significance of the potato, which was originally domesticated by the Indigenous peoples of the Andes approximately 7,000 to 10,000 years ago. The performance’s title draws inspiration from the American botanist and geneticist Edgar Anderson’s essay “How to Spend a Nice Quiet Evening with a Potato,” which was published in the Bulletin of the Missouri Botanical Garden in 1955.

2:45–3 pm | Barney A. Ebsworth Gallery

Lourdes del Mar Santiago Lebrón and Tess Angelica Losada-Tindall: Mangle

Dance artists Lourdes del Mar Santiago Lebrón (MFA 2025) and Tess Angelica Losada-Tindall (MFA 2025) present an embodied exploration of the intersections between the environmental fragility of the Caribbean mangle (mangrove) and the diasporic grief that stems from forced migration. The mangle mirrors diasporic migration through the displacement of its seedlings, which drop from its branches—in a process akin to live birth—only to be swept away by the currents of the waters in which it grows.

3:15–3:30 pm pm | Museum Lobby

Juan William Chávez: Imaynatataq Papawan Sumaq Ch’in Chisi

(How to Spend a Nice Quiet Evening with a Potato)

3:45–4 pm | Barney A. Ebsworth Gallery

Lourdes del Mar Santiago Lebrón and Tess Angelica Losada-Tindall: Mangle