FIRST NIGHT: THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT

Presented at:
Hallwalls

Part of downtown Buffalo's New Year's Eve celebration. Performances by Heather Connor (LIVE! MS. BIRDIE LAYS SCRAMBLED EGGS FROM SATELLITE STAR); Steve Griffith (History and the Metric System); Fritz Bacher (Fritz Bacher DRINKS Himself to Death) with the accompaniment of his band The Royal Canadians. Performances also include dancer, Verneice Turner, and the East Buffalo Media Association. Videos screened include: BUZZ BOX (David Daniels); POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENTS: FROM EISENHOWER TO REAGAN (Marshall Reese and Antoni Muntadas); BLACK CELEBRATION (Tony Cokes)

Some publications related to this event:
November and December, 1989 - 1989

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GALLERY HOURS:
Tues.—Fri. 11-6
Sat. 11-2
Sun. & Mon. closed

IN THE GALLERY
from Nov. 9, 2019
through Dec. 20, 2019

Jacob Kassay
Footage

Jacob Kassay’s new works are made up of oriented strand board (OSB), an engineered wood similar to particle board. Here, flakes closest to the surface are photographed and reprinted atop the subject/substrate, and stand in for pixelated image data; the actual and the depicted are collapsed onto a single stratum that compresses source and secondary information into a kind of schism ...