Art Hounds: 'Uncreativity,' pop art and collaboration

This week art hounds enjoy some pop art humor in St. Peter, take in a music-dance-art collaboration at Public Functionary, and attend an "Uncreativity Festival" at Bryant Lake Bowl.

Laura Cederberg is impressed by how Public Functionary reinvents its gallery space for each new show. For its latest exhibition "In Which..." the space is hosting an immersive art experience featuring the art of Liz Miller, the music of Brute Heart, and the dance of Super Group. This weekend is the final weekend of performances — the art is up through April 10.

Emily Gastineau plans to attend the "Uncreativity Festival" at Bryant Lake Bowl this weekend. In the art world "uncreativity" is the process of making art using found texts and materials. As part of the festival, performance artist Billy Mullaney will perform "SEMESTER," a word-for-word and equation-for-equation delivery of MIT's relativistic quantum mechanics lecture "Quantization of the Free Scalar Field." Gastineau says Mullaney has no real understanding of the material he's performing, nor do most of his audiences, so the experience becomes more about rhythms and images than words and meaning.

Sara Buechmann recently happened upon a charming exhibition at the Arts Center of St. Peter by Amanda Wirig. The mixed media paintings are inspired by music and pop culture — especially the Beatles — and they often contain a joke for the music literate. The show runs through April 19.