GutterHall was a concert venue situated in a very intimate room in SPACES Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio. As part of the exhibition Street Repairs, GutterHall was a conceptual art installation cultivating the notion that music and gatherings around music can contribute greatly to urban revitalization and social equity. As such, the space was activated with live band performances on select days during the run of the exhibition.

As lines between the visual arts and other disciplines are often blurred, it is not uncommon to see the hybridization of music, sculpture, and performance. GutterHall was just that, and as part of a theme-based exhibition, the work operated on a variety of levels depending on the specific encounter between the art and the viewer. Like any club-type establishment, there were hours of operation as well as closed times. Quite often, during daily gallery hours, the concert hall was "closed" and the viewer saw a rather static snapshot of a space that was visibly imbued with some other story - the concerts, themselves a performative collaboration between the bands, the installation, and the attendees. As concerts go, these events purposely forced intimacy between the performer and the audience. The very small size of the space combined with the constructed physical and conceptual simulation of a concert hall created an oddly schizophrenic shift in scale and context - a veritable maximized miniature.

GutterHall, as a performance, was a space where bands and fans enacted the 1950s pastime of seeing how many people can be crammed into a phone booth. It conjured remembrances of seeing your favorite group before they "made it big" - "I saw Sonic Youth when they were doing house parties…" GutterHall, as a wordplay on guttural, was also quite simply a gruff and raspy utterance of gritty rock noise cluster crank, jam-packed crazy close and full of frenzy. Ultimately, the installation and the performances provided a place where people got together, experienced art, and hopefully thought about community and making the world a better place to live.

The bands that played GutterHall:
Cobra Verde, Derek DePrator Trio, HA HA LA, Jerk, Kroch, Meladjusted,
Ohms Law, Self Destruct Button, Series. the Skavas,
Thee Scarcity of Tanks, Swell Bean, To be a High-Powered Executive