Hallwalls - Steve Kurtz Lecture

A Project for Documenta 13: Steve Kurtz & Critical Art Ensemble

$5 general, $4 Hallwalls members, UB Students FREE

A Buffalo-based artist whose work is staged and celebrated around the world, Steve Kurtz, Chair of Visual Studies at the University at Buffalo, will address his four major projects of this year.

Kurtz is a founding member of Critical Art Ensemble, one of the most significant art collectives today, which explores the intersection of art, technology, and political activism.

Unusually, the group completed two projects for the festival: “A Temporary Monument to Global Economic Inequality” (pictured below) and “Winning Hearts and Minds.” In addition, their contestational ecology project “New Alliances” was featured at Parco Arte Vivente in Turin, Italy. 

A large illustrated text of major Critical Art Ensemble projects entitled “Disturbances” was published this year. It will be available for purchase and signing following the talk.

Hallwalls - Sabine Gruffat, I Have Always Been a Dreamer

Sabine Gruffat

I Have Always Been a Dreamer

$8 general, $6 students/seniors, $5 members

(2012, 16mm/HD, 78min)

Globalized Urban Imaginaries
A screening series organized for the Urban Image Research Workshop by Carl Lee, Miriam Paeslack and Carolyn Tennant; co-produced by Hallwalls and the UB Humanities Institute. All screenings will take place at Hallwalls and are suggested donation, unless noted.

A documentary travelogue and portrait of two cities in contrasting states of development: Dubai, UAE and Detroit, U.S.A. Sabine Gruffat is an artist living and working in North Carolina, experimenting with the technologies and conventions inherent in media.

 

Hallwalls - C. Carr on David Wojnarowicz

Cynthia Carr

Reading, Book Signing, & Presentation

on the Work of David Wojnarowicz

$5 general, $4 Hallwalls members, UB Students FREE

Author of Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz
(Bloomsbury, 2012)

 

Cynthia Carr, under the by-line C. Carr, was for many years a senior critic and columnist for The Village Voice, specializing in performance art and experimental theater. Carr last visited Hallwalls on November 6th, 1988 (24 years ago this month) as a featured presenter in the first biannual Ways In Being Gay festival, and delivered a talk entitled GREAT MOMENTS IN SPECTATING: QUEER THEATER, RONALD REAGAN, & THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA. Tonight Carr will read from her critically-acclaimed 2012 biography Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz (Bloomsbury), and give a presentation on the artist's work based on her research. (Wojnarowicz himself performed at Hallwalls with musician Ben Neill in the second Ways In Being Gay festival in 1990, in a performance entitled ITSOFOMO—In the Shadow of Forward Motion.) Talking Leaves…Books will provide books for purchase and signing following the author's presentation.


An excerpt from Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz, the new book by Cynthia Carr (Bloomsbury, 2012). This reading took place at Hallwalls November 2, 1983.


Writers Gary Indiana & David Wojnarowicz at Hallwalls, November 2, 1983

WNYBAC Exhibition Opening

A Buffalo Alphabet: A-Z

On View November 2nd – December 1st
Opening Reception on November 2nd from 6-9pm

The Western New York Book Arts Center is pleased to announce the opening of its latest exhibition, A Buffalo Alphabet: A-Z by Dana Jenkins. The opening reception will take place at The Western New York Book Arts Center gallery, 468 Washington Street in downtown Buffalo on Friday, November 2nd from 6-9pm.

A Buffalo Alphabet: A-Z is a beautiful, alphabetized watercolor series celebrating countless aspects of the Queen City; from realistic representations of Buffalo landmarks, to the exploration of profound concepts such as diversity, steadfastness, and heritage. According to Jenkins, “this series is about a straightforward place that has a history worth exploring.”

Jenkins worked with WNYBAC Studio Director, Chris Fritton, to letterpress print the letters “A” through “Z” onto the series of 26 watercolor paintings. The font featured in this series is Winchell, a lead typeface originally designed in Buffalo in 1893, later digitized by WNYBAC founder Richard Kegler, and re-created in wood type by Chris Fritton.

WNYBAC LOCATION AND HOURS

468 Washington Street
Buffalo, NY 14203
(716) 348-1430
info@wnybookarts.org