So much of why I initially fell in love with St. Louis was the omnipresent invite to collaborate — making music, team-teaching, cameos in performances, draw-swaps.  The backdrop of our crumbling and rebirthing city is fodder for many epic co-creations.   Pictured here are:   *A concert in a dumpster, idea via then Wash-U student Dwyer Kilcollin who was brilliant at catalyzing collaboration outside of the university walls  * The Dissonettes (Celia, Jenna Bauer, and me) — a girl group that spouted stacked disonnance — backing up Jason Wallace Triefenbach in a performance at Radio Cherokee.  *“Whatyougondowithalldatjunk?” — an experimental visit to the arch with a stuffed booty on Valentine’s Day with Lezlie Silverstein, exploring race, identity, tourism, and attachment * “G – L – O – R – I – A ” … a night of attending art openings dressed and acting like Ladies of the Night with Shannon Knox, exploring permissible behavior and public mores within the ever beloved Art Scene.   *Maidencrone - the gateway greeter at Kelsey LaPoint’s X.P.O.E.Animal performance, who gave each audience member a ‘familiar’ stuffed animal, some of which were implanted with electronics that activated midway during the show.