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UB Poetics Program Poets Theater presents Konrad Steiner & Jen Hofer The Cinema Cabaret FREE Film with live narration by performance poets from San Francisco, Los Angeles, & Buffalo Writers' engagement with popular cinema has long been limited in the popular imagination to the industry of screenplay writing leading to film production. Recently an inversion of this mode of production has captured the imaginations of poets and audiences. Using a form of live film narration inherited from practices in Japan and Korea during the silent film era, scenes from popular films are shown muted and re-narrated live with new language. These hybrid performances are satirical, critical, poetic, and analytic ways of "talking back" to the talkies. Konrad Steiner (SF) and Jen Hofer (LA) will present some background and conceptual framing about this new take on the movies and perform their own work along with writer/performers from Buffalo who will premier their own live cinema narrations. |
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UB Humanities Institute and the Department of Visual Studies Johannes Zits Performing the Body: A Selection of Video Works by Johannes Zits  Johannes Zits is a Toronto-based artist whose work combines digital imaging, collage, photography and painting to focus on the body and its relations to space. His work intends to draw attention to both the conventional image-making process as well as the ways images from mass media are disseminated and consumed.  Zits's work has been shown internationally in locations including London, Berlin, and Shanghai. In January 2008 he presented a major solo exhibition highlighting his many disciplines at the Centre D'Art Contemporain de Basse Normandie, Caen, France.  |
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Shine Louise Houston Champion FREE 
In conjunction with UB's Humanities Institute Research Workshop for Queer Theory, hosts of the conference "At the Limits: Porn and the Humanities" (March 26th&27th), Hallwalls will present Bay Area director Shine Louise Houston. Heralded by The Advocate as "Dyke Porn's New Mastermind," Houston will screen her latest film Champion, winner of the Feminist Porn Awards 2009 Movie of the Year and nominated for the 2010 AVN Awards Best Video Feature (the Oscar of Porn). |
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Beyond/In Western New York 2010: Alternating Currents  This biennial, multi-venue exhibition will present the work of outstanding artists from Western New York and Southern Ontario, responding to the regionally relevant theme Alternating Currents and its undercurrent of utopian power, both literal and metaphorical; reclamation or use of natural assets; visions of the future and the past; technological progress or intrusion; and the diverse demographic and social constructs of this region. A curatorial collaboration of twelve regional museums and galleries, Beyond/In Western New York 2010: Alternating Currents will, for the first time, feature the work of artists from outside the region, blurring the local with the global and challenging the assumptions of what these distinctions mean today, when all artists are both. Visit www.beyondinwny. |
