THE VAULT: BUFFALO UNDER SURVEILLANCE: OPENING RECEPTION
Presented at: Hallwalls
Julie Scher, The Vault: Buffalo Under Surveillance, 1992. Photo by Pete Nasvytis. Performer: Leslie Wahl.
Opening reception for THE VAULT, an installation by Julia Scher. Joint reception with VIDEO WITNESSES 3: NETWORKING IN THE 90s will also include a section of festival award winning tapes from VIDEO WITNESSES 3. Curated by Chris Hill (Video Curator, on leave), coordinated by Laura McGough (Acting Video Curator), installation technical assistance by Annie Fergerson & Lesley Wahl.
[VIDEO WITNESSES 3: NETWORKING IN THE 90s features such program titles as GUERRILLA TELEVISION; INTERNATIONAL POLITICS; NATIVE AMERICAN LAND RIGHTS; HOUSING, TAXES, AND UNEMPLOYMENT; and FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES AND CAMCORDER ACTIVISM, as well as the Buffalo premieres of FEED, the feature documentary on the 1992 elections to which Brian Springer has contributed satellite feeds, and SPRING OF LIES, chronicling Operation Rescue's failed attempt to shut down Buffalo clinics the previous April, produced by MCRR. Artists-in-residence include Tom Poole of Not Channel Zero and representatives of the Women's Workshop of the Tariagsuk Video Center in Igloolik, Northwest Territories. —E.C.]