Reading, Book Signing, & Presentation on the Work of David Wojnarowicz

 

Cynthia Carr—under the by-line C. Carr—was for nearly twenty years a senior reporter, critic, and columnist for The Village Voice, specializing in performance art, artworld politics, and occasionally experimental theater. Her previous books of journalism and criticism include Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America (2007) and On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century (2008).

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, 700 Main St., 4th floor, November 2, 1983.