The Movement-Image is an exhibition and performance series curated by Lecturer in Visual Arts Colleen Asper. It unspools the motion picture to situate performance in a continuum with film.

In Performing Remains, Rebecca Schneider describes the ways in which media studies, “conflates the invention of the still with the invention of the camera, too often forgetting the long history of precedent living stills.” The Movement-Image likewise sees across disciplinary divides to a long history of movement. The six artists presented in the exhibition understand the living body as a force of continuous invention.

regular degular is a cinematic response to the disparate architectural, economic and historical tensions that surface in St. Louis, Missouri. These conflicts are embodied along the historic Jefferson Avenue and exist because of, and are constantly reproduced by, an anti-Black formation of American cities that raze or renew neighborhoods based on their racial and economic make-up. Thus, multiple understandings of time and narrative share geographic space but are not in active conversation. This temporal and architectural non-communication becomes an opportunity to invent a narrative structure that connects these dynamics. regular degular is a short stop-motion film that seeks to tell a new story of a place that respectfully and playfully acknowledges these local conditions.