The Piers: Art and Sex along the New York Waterfront
C. Carr
Ivan Galietti
Uzi Parnes
Jonathan Weinberg
Thursday 12 April, 2012
6 - 7:30pm, $0/Rsvp
New York University, Fales Library
70 Washington Square South, Floor 3
In conjunction with the exhibition The Piers: Art and Sex along the New York Waterfront at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art (April 5 - May 10), The Fales Library of New York University will host a panel on the depiction of the piers on film. Jonathan Weinberg, curator of the exhibition will moderate the panel, which features critic and David Wojnarowicz biographer, Cynthia Carr, and the artists, Ivan Galietti and Uzi Parnes.
The Piers: Art and Along the New York Waterfront is the first museum exhibition to focus exclusively on the uses of the Hudson River docks by artists and a newly emerging gay subculture. It presents over 70 works of art that demonstrate how the gay liberation movement--spurred by the 1969 Stonewall riots--transformed the cultural and social landscape of New York. For the first time such seminal works of the New York avant-garde as Vito Acconci's Untitled Project for Pier 17, Gordon Matta-Clark's, Day's End and David Wojnarowicz's Rimbaud in New York, are being shown alongside little known photographs of the gay cruising scene by Leonard Fink, Frank Hallam, Lee Snider, and Rich Wandel.
Panelists to date:
Cynthia Carr (C.Carr), columnist and arts writer for The Village Voice from 1984 until 2003, specializes in experimental and cutting edge art, especially performance. Her biography, Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz, will be published in July by Bloomsbury. She is also the author of On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century (Wesleyan University Press) and Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, A Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America (Crown).
Ivan Galietti is a filmmaker, photographer, and actor who works in Italy and the U.S. In the 1970's in Rome he worked with Sandro Chia, Federico Fellini, and Jack Smith, who inspired his move to New York. There he continued to work with Smith and became part of the '80s East Village art scene. His film-in-progress POMPEII NEW YORK, PART 1: PIER CARESSES, featuring, among others, David Wojnarowicz, was shown at the Torino Film Festival in Italy and at the Downtown NY Film Festival at 8BC (1985), The New Museum's "East Village USA" in NY (2005), the Sulmona Film Festival in Italy (2007), the Oberhausen Film Festival in Germany (2010), the Museum of Film in Vienna (2010), and the Hebbel Theater in Berlin (2011).
Uzi Parnes is a filmmaker, photographer and actor working in New York's art and performance scene since 1980. His recent work includes the slide show I Shot Jack Smith, and an installation, Allium Chandalier, a Day of The Dead Altar for Jack Smith featuring his "Glamour" photos of Jack for LIVE FILM: Jack Smith at the Arsenal in Berlin. His expanded cinema collaboration with Ela Troyano The Silence Of Marcel Duchamp premiered as a work in progress at The Berlin Film Festival in February 2010. I Shot Jack Two, a new live film collaboration with Ela Troyano premiered at the Wrocklaw International Film Festival in July 2011. Uzi's film and video work will be shown in a retrospective at Berlin's Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art in June 2012 at The Sony Center, as part of The Living Archive series.
Jonathan Weinberg, Ph.D. is a painter and art historian. He is the author of Male Desire: the Homoerotic in American Art; and Ambition and Love in Modern American Art. He teaches at the Rhode Island School of Art and Hunter College. A one-man retrospective of his paintings was on view at the Leslie Lohman Foundation in 2009.
The Piers: Art and Along the New York Waterfront is the first museum exhibition to focus exclusively on the uses of the Hudson River docks by artists and a newly emerging gay subculture. It presents over 70 works of art that demonstrate how the gay liberation movement--spurred by the 1969 Stonewall riots--transformed the cultural and social landscape of New York. For the first time such seminal works of the New York avant-garde as Vito Acconci's Untitled Project for Pier 17, Gordon Matta-Clark's, Day's End and David Wojnarowicz's Rimbaud in New York, are being shown alongside little known photographs of the gay cruising scene by Leonard Fink, Frank Hallam, Lee Snider, and Rich Wandel.
Panelists to date:
Cynthia Carr (C.Carr), columnist and arts writer for The Village Voice from 1984 until 2003, specializes in experimental and cutting edge art, especially performance. Her biography, Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz, will be published in July by Bloomsbury. She is also the author of On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century (Wesleyan University Press) and Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, A Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America (Crown).
Ivan Galietti is a filmmaker, photographer, and actor who works in Italy and the U.S. In the 1970's in Rome he worked with Sandro Chia, Federico Fellini, and Jack Smith, who inspired his move to New York. There he continued to work with Smith and became part of the '80s East Village art scene. His film-in-progress POMPEII NEW YORK, PART 1: PIER CARESSES, featuring, among others, David Wojnarowicz, was shown at the Torino Film Festival in Italy and at the Downtown NY Film Festival at 8BC (1985), The New Museum's "East Village USA" in NY (2005), the Sulmona Film Festival in Italy (2007), the Oberhausen Film Festival in Germany (2010), the Museum of Film in Vienna (2010), and the Hebbel Theater in Berlin (2011).
Uzi Parnes is a filmmaker, photographer and actor working in New York's art and performance scene since 1980. His recent work includes the slide show I Shot Jack Smith, and an installation, Allium Chandalier, a Day of The Dead Altar for Jack Smith featuring his "Glamour" photos of Jack for LIVE FILM: Jack Smith at the Arsenal in Berlin. His expanded cinema collaboration with Ela Troyano The Silence Of Marcel Duchamp premiered as a work in progress at The Berlin Film Festival in February 2010. I Shot Jack Two, a new live film collaboration with Ela Troyano premiered at the Wrocklaw International Film Festival in July 2011. Uzi's film and video work will be shown in a retrospective at Berlin's Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art in June 2012 at The Sony Center, as part of The Living Archive series.
Jonathan Weinberg, Ph.D. is a painter and art historian. He is the author of Male Desire: the Homoerotic in American Art; and Ambition and Love in Modern American Art. He teaches at the Rhode Island School of Art and Hunter College. A one-man retrospective of his paintings was on view at the Leslie Lohman Foundation in 2009.