CHANT Collaborative

CHANT is a collaborative of artists and community health equity leaders with a common commitment to creative interdependence that emerges from research and praxis at the nexus of Culture, Healing, Art, Nature, and Technology. CHANT centers equity and justice in an ethics that relates all living beings within an ecology of reciprocity and redistribution. As a catalyst for creative interdependence, CHANT shapes a space for individual and collective wholeness. Our research questions consider the relationships between wholeness and health, presence and connectedness, and the fluid permutations among Culture, Healing, Art, Nature, and Technology that engage art as our primary modality. 

Within this emerging ecology of practice we share a recognition that we each thrive in the interplay between creative and scholarly research, cultural and technical ways of knowing, and modes of participation and engagement that do not require that we parse ourselves into distinct disciplinary domains or practices.  We are committed to a collaboratively led, emergent, creative process to co-generate experiential modes of art that engage people in each of the three collaborative geographic nodes, Minneapolis Minnesota, Columbus Ohio, and New Orleans Louisiana, as well as a multi-sited collaborative form that embodies our creative cycle of reciprocity and redistribution.

CHANT Collaborators: Diane Willow (University of Minnesota), Amy Youngs (Ohio State University), Doo-Sung Yoo (Ohio State University), Calvin Stalvig (University of Minnesota Alumni), Anna Clowser (University of Minnesota Alumni), Sarah Abdel-Jelil (University of Minnesota Alumni), Mai Tran (University of Minnesota MFA)