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| performance & literature winter spring 2005: March | april | may | |
 “Kathryn Davis’s books not only defy easy description, but tend to elicit inadequate book-chat clichés like ‘hypnotic’ and ‘haunting’ to convey their astonishing effects. Davis’s approach to novel writing is so original, and the results so magical, that trying to review her fiction in a thousand words on a tight deadline feels as doomed as trying to review … one of your own dreams.” — A.O. Scott, Newsday |
FICTION Monday, March 28, 2005 • 7:00 P.M. EXHIBIT X presents a reading by Kathryn Davis Hallwalls (Con) temporary Art Center (temporary storefront gallery) 700 Main Street, in the downtown Theater District FREE Kathryn Davis has received a Kafka Prize, the 1999 Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is also the author of the novels Labrador, The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf, The Walking Tour, Hell and Versailles. Davis teaches at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York and lives with her husband and daughter in Vermont. ÒDavisÕs writing is so extraordinarily visual that she is practically a video artist.Ó Ñ The New Yorker
ÒI like to think of Kathryn Davis as the love child of Virginia Woolf and Lewis Carroll, with a splash of Nabokov, Emily Bronte, and Angela Carter in the gene pool.Ó — Joy Press, Village
Voice
Exhibit X is a co-presentation of Hallwalls and the UB English Dept., which funds the ongoing series. Writers are selected and introduced by Christina Milletti. |
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 “Constructed in brutally perceptive and dazzlingly revelatory prose, [The End of the Story] is a stunning work.”
— Booklist |
FICTION Monday, April 11, 2005 • 7:00 P.M. EXHIBIT X presents a reading by LYDIA DAVIS Hallwalls (Con) temporary Art Center (temporary storefront gallery) 700 Main Street, in the downtown Theater District FREE Lydia Davis, a 2003 MacArthur Fellow, is the author of the novel The End of the Story and three volumes of short fiction, the latest of which is Samuel Johnson is Indignant. She is also the translator of numerous works by Maurice Blanchot, Michael Leiris, Piere Jean Jouve, and many others and was recently named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government. Her essay on close translation of Proust appeared in the April 2004 issue of the Yale Review. “Davis might be thought of as an erudite stand-up comedian, one who works philosophers’ conferences instead of nightclubs…. Samuel Johnson Is Indignant is Montaigne in a Minimalist mood.” — The New York Times
Book Review
“Among the true originals of contemporary American short fiction.” — San Francisco Chronicle Exhibit X is a co-presentation of Hallwalls and the UB English Dept., which funds the ongoing series. Writers are selected and introduced by Christina Milletti. |
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PERFORMANCE / LITERATURE MIXED METAPHOR & INNERVISION present frequencies Hallwalls (Con) temporary Art Center 698 Main Street, Downtown Buffalo $5 Frequencies is an intersection of literature, music, and media that encompasses the “workin’-it-out” space that all artists experience, a mixture of story and sound, of poem and pulse, of reading and rhythm, a gathering of increasing intensity. Instead of having a single focus, Frequencies exists as a free space driven by the energy of its participants. The experience is amorphous, and we remain committed to every event being a work in progress. Frequencies is brought to you by innervision sound production and mixed metaphor, a creative venture launched by transplants Kara Olidge and Erin Sharkey. This collaboration brings a new kind of party to the Buffalo soundscape. From writing to beat matching, Kara has touched just about every form of art. She attributes her love of creative expression to growing up in New Orleans and being hooked on post-colonial theory. Erin hails from the conjoined cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul where she started to write poetry by painting on walls and throwing rent parties to help her friends get by. Fellow poet Chantal Panepento and others will join Erin on the mike. Come share in the process. Join us this month at Hallwalls’ temporary downtown gallery space on a journey from ambient to rhythm-driven poetry to party. Frequencies will take place once a month somewhere. Just make sure that you’re in tune. All are welcome. Open-mike sign-up until 9:30 P.M |
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