Dancenoise I , I and Their Very Special Friends ¢~:"/' 7 'T Saturday March 26, 8:30 P.M

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t, ¢ Y DANCENOISE I , I AND THEIR VERY SPECIAL FRIENDS ¢~:"/' 7 'T SATURDAY MARCH 26, 8:30 P.M.

.. -¥\"', 'L '. They pull out machine guns and spray the au- .f , 1 )9 5 '» dience with fake bu/lets while to the ,~ _ they strip I ,

' .¢i_, _,;_f?fl5,,.A_" '° ' waist. To a insistent beat, then . r clamourous, spa.- .- ,I _,' gy/,;,:_'§$j_,';',5" _~_,_'(, t ,é` paint their naked chests silver twisting '--..._' {=~__' QQ '-5f"_ ,_ 7 ':\ W*-. Q themselves into a frenzied thrash of improvised , l» .f, _T . _'{1'_'fQ7 f __ _ ,, _ fa. . ., .x \ = ~#»- Andthe finale?A scene where the two . '. , . ', _ _ dancing. UQ wr- _ _:lj ' »_._»'§¢ "' él " a dolls shirt out its heart. We//, "A , rip open andpull _ 1, ` _ "{f' "' Nl" a chicken A/I this to the sound ,, heart, actually 123'

' ' of an amphetaminized version of the 605 chestnut, "Put a Little Love in Your Heart." ,5_*f,~1--=.< ` ' ' ' A `35'~`-" ' C B mb ' f.1,2§'»€"' IOS Zi`lZeiL'l 155; ._ Q, I

I ' 5" ' E , _.ba » DANCENOISE is Anne Iobst and Lucy f_§`~'f, _ been erformin . Sexton, who have p g . »~1»~ __ _'fx ' "t "ff together since 1983, largely on the ` circuit in New York (WOW ; nightclub "Tak- - /I' Cafe, 8 BC, The Palladium, etc.). from television, hardcore . p ing inspiration *f-"' our own ex- .1 music, show tunes, and I as women, we create shows ,_ _ L . periences " that are and ¢ I funny, absurd, entertaining,

- "III the con- K -v \` . unsettling," they explain. "Using g _ - / QQ \ I I 1 ventions of dance, performance, and _I we ex lore the contrast bet- . cabaret' p I I ¢ _ 1' `_ _ ' Ween the ima3es we are fed and our __ . _ _ own lives; a contrast which provokes _ r;' `' parody an d ra ge, h umor an d obsceni- and blood." Their taboo- Q 'nv ty, tap dancing shattering spectacles have led many critics to consider DANCENOISE (along _ _ _ \` , . . . ` artists like Karen Finle and Mimi ff* with Y

_\__ Y Goese) as the cutting edge of "the theater of transgression." BLOOD AND FOIL will give Buffalo a taste of this "transgression": an evening of unorthodox work by women whose onstage personas defy gender conven- tions. Accompanying DANCENOISE will be a host of their "very special friends," the brightest lights of the Downtown Manhattan club scene. This program is being assembled with the assistance of Lori E. Seid and is cospon- sored by UUAB Cultural and Perform- ing Arts.

Admission: $5.00/$3.00 Hallwalls members and UB students.

Anne Iobst and Lucy Sexton of DANCENOISE.

Photograph by Charles Steiner. EXHIBITION VIDEO

IN VIDEO VIEWING ROOM EXHIBITION DOUBLE A RDIST UALT POLITICS OF EXH c..|ON NFORMATION VISION Continuing through //larch 25 Videotapes are available for viewing during regular gallery hours, free. //larch 1988 UCK through 25, Organized by Barbara Lattanzi This exhibition examines functions of knowledge in the service of power. These AGRO tapes range from persuasive uses of information (for advertising, public relations, and lobbying efforts) to critical analyses of assumptions and tactics of network IOHN ALLEN television news and documentaries and their impact on current events. THE SHOE//lC //IULE Featured RICHARD RAMIREZ videotapes: ARMIIO Chuck Agro's installation includes paint- Atlacatl (1983), EI Salvadoran military tape. ings and objects which self consciously De Audacia (Time of (1983), El Salvadoran rebel forces tape. Tiempo Daring) I EMILY CHENG resemble Modern Art. Bold geometrics, Los Refugiados (The Refugees) (1985), by Michael Ach and Mark Brady. formulaic obsession with color, (The above tapes are part of a touring exhibition of Latin American work) EUGENIO ESPINOSA materials, and no-frills presentation, all Democracy in Communication, organized by Karen Ranucci. adds to the deja-vu. But this homage to for (1986), Tami Gold and Goldfarb. ALBERT CHONCI Prescription Change by Lyn the Moderns is in fact undermined by *Excerpts from Politics of the Electromagnetic Spectrum (1987), documentation humorous use of various time- of TYRONE MITCHELL Agro's talk given by Robert Horvitz at Hallwalls. tested formalist devices. Freedom of Information Tape 1: lean Seberg (1980), by Margia Kramer *Continuous Entertainment Lee and David Smith. HOWARDENA PINDELL Agro strives to expose the masculine (1987), by Murray bad to be it could be If If ,stereotypeswhich inform the male artists *lf its too true, DISINFOIQMQTION ,(1985),.by.lv1artha. TTI-WEENTRAMSARAN Rosler. urge to "produce" and "perform/' What *Race Prime Time David Shulman. initially appear to be slick, sculptural ac- Against (1984), by CARRIE YAMAOKA Will Zone Productions. coutrements to black "color-field" paint- They Say They (1987), by are of CHARLES YUEN ings simply pieces exercising ***VHS copies of asterisked titles are available for home viewing*** These equipment. mini-trampolines, VHS rental per tape: $2 (formembers) for members) bars, and the like, are never completely aestheticized and invite the viewer to physically engage with the work: to This event will include the of Fred Wilson, Curator "show his stuff." Of course, no one may screening 2 tapes featured in the current Video actually perform on this equipment, as POLITICS OF INFORMATION Room exhibition: Race Double Vision is an exhibition of works in the gallery context, it retains its iden- Viewing Against Part One Prime Time David and both by ten contemporary artists who draw tity as sculpture. by Shulman; their working aesthetic from elements of Wednesday, March 16 the English and Spanish versions of Zone Productions' Will. Follow- non-western culture. Rather than adap- 7:3 O P.M. Free They Say They the there will be a discus- ting their work to the narrow dictates of ing screening the prevailing 'American" aesthetic, these sion with members of the Revolutionary Communist the Maoist artists seek to recreate language and sym- P E T E R Party, organization which is the of bolism out of the visual, verbal, and subject They Say philosophical traditions of the lands They Will. where the majority of the world's people STEPHENS and live. think, create, ROMANCE A//D The painting, photography and sculpture Tapes from the current Video Viewing in this exhibition do not make overt ADVENTURE Room exhibition featured in this even- POLITICS OF INFORMATION political statements or confine ing's presentation include: three El Peter Stephens' new paintings combine themselves to topical issues. Theirs is a Salvadoran tapes from the touring exhibi- Part Two his earlier empathy toward images from subtle manifesto which seeks to recover tion Democracy in Communication, March 23 art historical sources with a new interest Wednesday, opportunities for cultural growth which Prescription For Change, Continuous in detailed renditions 8:00 P.M. Free have been lost in the wake of col- portraiture. Finely Entertainment, Freedom of information of dramatically posed friends are posi- onialism, eurocentrism, and United Tape 1: /ean Seberg, and lf it's too bad tioned in front of scrim-like backgrounds States-dominated global mass media. to be true, it could be DISINFOR- of cathedrals, pastoral landscapes, and Their art avoids the stereotypical cartoon MAT/ON. other similarly nostalgic subjects. In and the exotic appropriated image so order to heighten the "ancient" quality prevalent in the western view of "foreign" of these grounds and futher remove them lands for the simple reason that for them, from illusionistic space, Stephens these images are not foreign. It is precise- certain pictorial devices and because these artists are descendants employs ly I'oeil effects. Holes in the of non-westernpeoples that their work trompe appear surface aIIUElTng't6'@ a|il'de§1y[Eind rings true. lt is their consciousness of this ()-ELT-I£ luminous fields of color and gold leaf heritage that reinforces their need to provide a sensuous, decorative founda- create, and in particular to create this tion for the and architectural kind of work. landscapes motifs. N FORMATIO N Visiting Curaton Fred Wilson is current- The solitary portraits which hover on top ly Director of the Longwood Arts Project, of all this engage the PAINTING & PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT Bronx Council on the Arts. He is also a packaged history viewer in an entirely different manner. practicing artist. There is an illustrated Their realism in both style and attitude catalog available in conjunction with this confounds the comfortable distance we In with the current video ex- exhibition. conjunction maintain with the signifiers of grandeur hibition, the Video Viewing Room is ex- Double Vision has been made possible found in the rest of the painting. These hibiting paintings and photographs, in part by a grant from the Museum Pro- inspired portraits demand our emotional reflective of community issues and social gram of the National Endowment for the investment, despite the artifice of their values, by artists associated with

' r --»- Arts. tension - "=1~ The resultant be- -. _ .s_"_ "at a art .I ' ' surroundings. T" 1 , community-based 'Lt u ef '><-_ MollyOlga, ` I -' -. ` tween these elements re- '~. N*-s ' in Buffalo. Featured artists incongruous " organization -. . ° c - §`kf 2, Hours: 12:00 we our to 'g Q, -5 Gallery Tuesday Friday, quires that examine response 5 g include: `> ' gg ' ' 32-' - :"a - .=I "'|,;_ 6:00 1:00 5:00 the real and the fictional. ' Saturday ~. s. . Duncan Bethel ..,3~` ivtl. f`,c;._ ~_,b¢§;a '§5Z»._v ' ,_.:~`f 1 X* :L 1 ~`,- . Lenore Bethel _ ,_ ` .t.~.,1 ' ' / »» 7 ._ , ~'i`r-, X 51%

'f -` - S' ". . _,ig It ,sash-' 21, Juan Cavazos = _ ' is -Eff' 55 " All visual artists are invited to bring in 'f ,Y ' ='-Ps Huey Mei Chang . slides of new work for an of slide = , evening Q __ _

» . 1 _ Kenneth _ '§ Cooper : review and discussion with Catherine L ' Howe Hallwalls Curator and The Artists 131 Terresa Ford ARTISTS TALK f" . Gonzales Advisory Board We are currently plan `ft?.?"i~ Ricky next season and this Eric McEntire exhibitions for ` ning " . _ `

V V V' open format should be an exciting way Curtis Robinson - ' i O N A R T _ to consider artists for the , I" - v program. . Terry Simpkins A ca I I fo r new wor k I ,ix `jf L`,F` ji Artists who wish to present their slides g ,L_ si' . _ 72. 1 March21 s ' Monday , should meet in the main gallery at 7 I OO `

_ _ 7 : OO P M Free PM. . Portfolios or small works may be Painting by luan Cavazos presented if an artist does not have ade quate slides NGIITII AMERKAN NEWM||$|¢ FESTIVAL

- MUSIC BENEFIT MARCH 19, 1988 HALLWALLS 9 MARCH Music for Downtown March 74 EDNESDAY/ Monday PL. Works by Sellars, Kurtz, Ganz, Roe, 12:10 and 1:10 P.M. Free THEATRE Buffalo and Erie Public CAFE I 100 Doerrfield and Deak. County Fl/E/ALFAMADORE Library Auditorium, Lafayette NEW Music FEATURING AN EVENING or Square SCHMIDT LEv\RE' PAUL 1 . CARTER Etuon IESSE Monday March 74 EERRANDEZ john A Lecture on 4:00 RM. Free ROBERT ' Cage: Anarchy ABE AND ~ 1 _ C and afestival pass, Slee Concert Hall ~ ' .__ dseatingi reception . 8 00 PM -_ ticket and recepllon . I I Concert r I in te S' SISITGSIB/riponer and $ll)t0 P ._/-wf ".:""I"fT I listing Pahrgrgltt `

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, March 74 ':;f= _ ' 5.3 ' ' f ~ Monday ff '=-»-.; r _ " " < "` 553. 5 _f ;,! S §@¥ E.i§"'iiv:3;". 8:00 RM. $3.00/$1.00 and Hauer Cage, Scelsi, Burchfield Art Center 1300 Elmwood Ave.

john Cage Speaks About His Tuesday March 75 ' Music 4:00 P.M. Free Elliott Carter in Conversation with Thursday March 70 Baird Recital Hall jan Williams, Yvar Mikhashoff, 4:00 P.M. Free jesse Levine, and joel Chadabe. Baird Recital Hall

New Music From California Tuesday March 75 Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Thursday March 70 Works by Zappa, Milo, jarvinen, 8:00 P.M. $3.00/$1.00 Guest Conductors jesse Levine and 8:00 P.M. Fernandez, Francois Baird Recital Hall David Felder works by Chadabe, $12/$6.00 students and members Carter, Feldman and Torke. Slee Concert Hall Otto Laske Leads a Discussion of Wednesday March 76 Computer-Generated Music with 4:00 P.M. Free john Hassell Speaks About His Friday March 77 Barry Truax, Martin Bartlett, Serge 327 Baird Hall Music 4:00 P.M. Free Arcurri and Richard Teitelbaum. 227 Baird Hall

Music and the works March 76 MUSIC FOR WORDS Computer by Wednesday Laske, Arcuri, Truax, Bartlett, 8:00 P.M. $3.00/$1.00 Works by jon Hassell, Elizabeth Friday March 77 Teitelbaum. Slee Concert Hall Swados, Philip Glass, Mark Ben- 8:00 RM. $3.00/$1.00 net. Featuring actor Paul Schmidt Pfeifer Theatre directed by Peter Sellers. David Felder and jon Gibson Thursday March 77 Discuss Music and Video 4:00 P.M. Free EVENINGS FOR NEW MUSIC Friday March 77 B33 Baird Hall james Emery Solo Guitar Works 11:00 P.M. Free Stage Left Lounge 710 Main St.

Music and Video works March 77 A DAY WITH ELLIOTT CARTER by Thursday Barlow. 8:00 RM. $3.00/$1.00 this series will feature the Arditti Weidenan Gibson, Felder, Slee Concert Hall String Quartet from London, Saturday March 72 England performing all the Carter 2:00 P.M. $3.00/$1.00 String Quartets, as well as duo and Nina Fruedenheim An Gallery ensemble works with some of EVENINGS FOR NEW MUSIC Thursday March 77 western New York's finest jon Gibson Solo Works 11:00 P.M. Free musicians. Stage Left Lounge 710 Main St.

A DAY WITH ELLIOTT CARTER Saturday March 72 5:00 P.M. $3.00/$1.00 Lou Harrison Speaks About His Friday March 78 Hallwalls Vault Music 4:00 P.M. Free 227 Baird Hall

A DAY WITH ELIOTT CARTER Saturday March 72 March 78 8:00 P.M. $3.00/$1.00 Friday Mauricio About His 7:00 PM. Free Slee Concert Hall Kagel Speaks Music Tralfamadore Cafe 100 Theatre Place EVENINGS FOR NEW MUSIC Songs from a Random House with Music For Words Friday March 78 Steven Swartz and Alan Drogin Saturday March 72 Works by Kagel and Bussotti, 8:00 P.M. $3.00/$1.00 playing selections from their new 11:00 P.M. Free directed Pierre Audi Tralfamadore Cafe record and from the movie "RAIS- Stage Left Lounge 710 Main St. by 100 Theatre Place ING ARlZONA."

The Arditti String Quarter Works by Felder, Speach, Nash, Sunday March 73 Friday March 78 Hoyland, Ferneyhough. These 1:00 RM. Free The Music of Ben Neill 11:00 PM. Free compositions were all written for Albright-Knox Art Gallery Stage Left Lounge 710 Main St. the Arditti Quartet.

The East Buffalo Media Association Sunday March 73 Gamelan Son Of Lion performs Saturday March 79 Premier of "SAURS'f Music By 5:00 RM. $3.00/$1.00 works by Cornen Liden, Goode, 2:00 P.M. $3.00 Don Metz, Text By Michael Hallwalls Vault Benary, Simons and Harrison Lancaster Opera House Basinski. 21 Central Ave., Lancaster

March 19 Music From Latin American Sunday March 73 Saturday An Evening With Lou Harrison 8:00 P.M. $3.00/$1.00 Works by Ortiz, Leon, Garcia, 8:00 P.M. $3.00/$1.00 Holy Trinity Lutheran Church Schwartz, Sierra, Lorenz. Hallwalls Vault T080 Main St.

Festival passes are available: General Admission Pass, $10.00; University at Buffalo Faculty/staff and Alumni $8.00; Senior Citizen Pass $8.00; Student and Members $6.00; Passes are not valid for Buffalo Philharmonic and Gamelon Son of Lion concerts. Selected work from the RAYMOND RED 1988 THOMAS A.

\ 1 P I Tuesday, March 15 - its EDISON BLACK 8:00 PM. $3/$1 members

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MARIA FILM & Raymond Red will be present to screen and discuss a selection of his short films, including IDEO FESTIVAL Raymond Red. The Eternity (Ang Magpakailanman), presented by lohn Columbus, festival director The commercial film industry of the 1983, 25 min. Considered a classic of Philippines is in a sorry state after years contemporary short films, The Eternity has under the Marcos regime. Major directors been extensively screened and pas- like Lino Brocka, Mike de Leon and sionately praised at international film March 8 Tuesday, Ishmael Bernal are finding it hard to get festivals, and in the pages of Cahiers du 8:00 PM. $3/$1 members work. The last four years, however have Cinema, Sight & Sound, and numerous seen the rise of an alternative cinema other It is a tale of a man in The Thomas A. Edison-Black Maria journals. movement: a group of young, indepen- search of eternal life after he has commit- Film & Video Festival is one of the coun- dent filmmakers (gathered under the aegis ted a crime. most forums for new grave try's highly regarded of the Moewlfund Film Institute - which "experimental" work by independent Enemy (Kabaka), 1983, 23 min. Years ago, also publishes the quarterly magazine media artists. This annual festival and the story goes, a school was established Movement) who are working prolifically touring exhibition originates out of the atop a mountain to train dedicated young on Super-8 and video. Foremost amongst Thomas A. Edison National Historic Site men to become Guardians of the Stars of them is Red. Red - 22-year-old Raymond in West Orange, New jersey and com- the Eastern Skies. The Stars were believ- and his more immediate colleagues such memorates Edison's many contributions ed to be in danger from an unknown as lan Victoriano and joey Agbayani are to film history; his "experimental" film "enemy" who might one day steal them concerned with creating images that can studio (known as the Black Maria) was away. Sure enough the "enemy" strikes in return a new conception of the social the world's first structure designed entire- a blaze of white light, and the Guardians fabric they inhabit. Red, in particular feels ly for movie-making. are defeated. Only two of them sur\/ive the need to remain faithful to relatively in a hut, remembering their lives Included in this evenings' presentation conventional narrative forms within this hilltop and the events leading up to the arrival are: context, although his own background is of the "enemy." in and he is at ease with more Present Tense (16mm, 28 min.), by jack painting abstract constructions. The Kawn 15 min. An Walsh (Ang Hikab), 1984, astonishing vignette about a sleeper and Mayhem (16mm, 20 min.), by Abigail "Red has enough imagination to fire a an insomniac, which manages to evoke Child space shuttle and enough technical skill both Beckett and Borges in the space of Other Reckless Things (16mm, 20 min.), to produce precisely denoted images (a a quarter houn by janis Crystal Lipzin seedy rented room in the 1950s, a Two Pieces (videotape, 8 min.), by Bruce tumbledown shack in the mountains) that Kind (Kamada), 1984, 25 min. Music stu- Baillie have apparently limitless connotations. dent julian, in search of a quiet lodging With These Hands (16mm, 33 min.), by Far from the western stereotype of 'Third where he can write and practice the Chris Sheppard & Claude Savvageot World' values, these films offer fantasy violin, rents a room from Mrs. Siling. But [une Brides (16mm, 10 min.), by Cathy without a trace of escapism. They're also the room already has an occupant: a man Cook & Claudia Looze almost preternaturally beautiful." (Tony whose name may be Pedro, who never Spiral (16 mm, 12 min.), by Emily Breer Rayns, Sight & Sound) speaks, but has an ominous cough. and Your Face (16mm, 3 min.), by Bill Plympton Raymond Red will present an additional program of his films at Squeaky Wheel (585 Potomac, near Elmwood), on Thursday, March 17 at 8:00 RM.

SU FRIEDRIC presents presents The Ties That Bind& Totem ofthe De-

Damnedlf You Dvnft - nra@d,§< -Blond Voodoo

Saturday,March12 Friday, March 25 8:00 RM. $3/$1 members 8:30 pM' $3/$1 members

Cuban-born Ela Troyano has been an active presence in New York's lower East Su Friedrich has produced numerous side scene for at least the last decade, presiding over Club Chandelier (with Uzi

short films since in . annual Downtown Film Festival Tessa ' the 1978, ' (with Hughes- "experimental" ~ "f Parnes), co-founding . \ addition to fiction and for ` and her own "extended-cinematic" at a varie- writing essays 3.33 /g /' 5 Freeland), presenting performances Heresies: A Feminist /ournal on Art and ty of nightclubs and galleries. Her equally-notorious sister Alina Troyano (a.k.a. , sfga. .f-' V - . Q; and film criticism for The , a at Cafe where Ela recent- Politics, : _E Carmelita Tropicana), is frequent performer the WOW Downtown Review She is the of her own C/amcracker Suite Uzi Parnes). Ela has been recipient » ly presented (with Troyano ,~=l I numerous grants and awards, and was the awarded a writing residency at New York's lNTAR for the past three years, and

of a recent at the If received a Film Production Grant from the New York State Council on retrospective f subject . recently T Whitney Museum of American Art. She 2 the Arts to begin work on The Carmelita Wopicana Story Ela will be present to \. *rg` _ lives and work in New York City. <'l~ 3* screen and discuss her films. The evening will be introduced by Dancenoise (who will be the following evening). Sue Friedrich will be present to introduce Su Friedrich and her mother in a scene performing and discuss her most recent films. from The Ties That Bind. Totem of the Depraved (1984, multi-screen she has begun to transfer that material to The Ties That Bind (1984, 16mm, 55 min.) 35 min.) features the infamous Nick film, as well as to create entirely new Friedrich's newest film, Damned If You film, a story of an "or- Zedd (a.k.a. Orion jericho, Frank Zodiac) "moving" images - which can be com- presents compelling Don't (1987 16mm, 43 min.), weaves four woman (the filmmaker's mother) who makes love to a succession of will- bined into numerous multi-screen per- dinary" basic elements: footage from Michael the times of Phoebe mutations. This she will present living through extraordinary Powell's classic film Black Narcissus (1947) ing victims, including Legere, evening Nazi instead of mak- and - in a Blond Voodoo (1987), a in- Germany. However - james Richardson, disgusting psychotropic which pits a "good" nun against a ing a traditional documentary Friedrich pervision of the "boy and his dog" motif cantation for the new fashion-victim. "bad" nun; spoken exerpts from the text chose to use her own cinematic techni- - smooches with a named Immodest Acts: The Life ofa Lesbian Nun frantically dog on on (such as words scratched Warhol's ef . ques directly in Renaissance /taly; expressive imagery Spike. Loosely-based My ,Q f gfix the and "wild-sound" interviews) to and the film, of waterfowl in a zoo and whales in an Hustler; inspired by improvisa- rather than illustrate the text, tional genius ofjack Smith, Totem of the explicate aquarium tank; and fragments of a fan- and to create a conversation between the lives up to its title admirably. lv.; tasized erotic encounter between a nun Depraved V tlr jé 2 ll images and the soundtrack. f ,» (Peggy Healy) and a woman artist (Ela For a number of years Ela Troyano has ti ' Sfglfl The fi/m is an original: a moving and Troyano). The result is a 43-minute lyrical been presenting psychedelic light shows 3 .~, < ;~"' courageous tribute from a child to a evocation of the mystery and the develop- at clubs throughout New York. Tired of mentois®identity.(AmyTaubin,The The and an ever- mothe/fs beleaguered memory identity. (Amy Taubin, hauling slide projectors

- David Edelstein, The Wllage \oice Wllage \.bice) increasing volume of slides around town, 1 s_..ss i Hallwalls & The Latin American Writers which merges the genres of slave narrative and the 18th-century picaresque novel to hilarious effect, notwithstanding its highly erudite readings of Plato, Institute present Schopenhauer, and Hegel. A caitoonist as well as a writer, he created the PBS series "Charlie's Pad," a 52-part how-to of cartooning, and wrote scripts for such PBS dramas as Charlie Smith and the Fritter Tree (1978), the fictional biography of a 136-year-old black man brought to this country as a slave, and Booker (1986), YOLANDA BLANCO starring LeVar Burton. His current work-in-progress, Rutherford's Travels, is "an Odyssey-like adventure about a man trapped on a slave clipper," which johnson calls "a microcosm of America." johnson is Director ofthe Creative Writing Pro- oscAR HIIUELOS gram of the University of Washington at Seattle. His new book, Being and Race: B/ack Writing Since 1970, recently published by Indiana University Press, will be the subject of a colloquium organized by the English Department of SUNY IA ME MA|\|R|Qu|5 at Buffalo in conjunction with the author's appearance at Hallwalls. A BILINGUAL READING OF FICTION & POETRY Clarence Major, recently scored points Sunday, March 6 with the staid New York Times Book

_ Review for his latest Such Was The y 6 novel, 8 : 0 O P . M _ F r e e 'fs g I Season, which reviewer Al Young called ` at La Palma de Oro/ The in' t " . "an old-fashioned, straight-ahead nar- Yolanda born in has Golden Palm Blanco, 1954, rative crammed with action, a dramatic her in in = 11 » published poetry Spanish . _ _ _ ' and characterization 381 Busti corner of _ storyline meaty Avenue, several 1' books and in her l~1`»» anthologies > § Y unlike his fiction, which was Hudson St. a previous native Nicaragua and in Venezuela, in- t 9' K unstintingly experimentalf' One suspects Asi cuando la lluvia cluding (Leon, 1974), the Times editors-long the contras of the Poesia escogida de mujeres .ga literary struggle-of putting it in their nicaraguenses (Leon, 1975), Ceramica sw book reviewers' contracts that must ~ they Sol (Leon, 1977), en » Penqueo Nicaragua I seize every available opportunity to stick 1981), and (Managua, Aposentos Clarence Major Photograph by Pamela it to experimental writing and celebrate Translations of (Caracas, 1985). her Major. the traditional virtues. Obligingly, Young

Y ` have in ` the Ti" poems appeared january on come home to touch ms; '_ goes to say that "the avid avant-gardiste has himself : I 1987 issue of IKON of which i.. _ Y magazine, that continue to nourish and the lives 2 base with the blues and spirituals express H she was an assistant editon in to Open of those people he writes about so knowingly." Be that as it may, it is for nearly the a of Latin Sun, bilingual anthology two decades of far-out fiction that Major is best known, from his early novels American women edited \s. poets by Daisy A/l-Night Visitors (1969), NO (1973), Reflex and Bone Structure (1975), and Zamora and Ixok AmarGo: An- (1981), Emergency Exit (1979) to his recent, award-winning My Amputations (1986). He of Central American Women thology has also published work in nearly forty anthologies and as many periodicals Poets for Peace (Granite Press, 1987). She worldwide, eight books of poetry, a collection of short stories, the Dictionary resides in New Yolanda Blanco. Photograph by Robert currently jersey City, of Afro-American Slang (1970), and The Dark and Feeling: Black American Writers Walker. jersey. and Their Work (1974). His forthcoming novel, Painted Turtle: Woman with Guitar is being published by Sun & Moon in 1988. A Professor of English at the Univer- Oscar Hijuelos was born in 1951 in New York City of Cuban parents. He studied sity of Colorado at Boulder, Major is currently Visiting Professor at SUNY at with Donald Barthelme and Susan Sontag in the Master's program in creative Binghamton. writing at CCNY and has been the recipient of fiction fellowships from CAPS, the NEA, and the New York Foundation for the Arts (1986). He is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Our House in the Last World (1984), which received the Rome Prize in Literature of the American Institute of Arts and Letters in 1985-86.

jaime Manrique is an American citizen born in Barranquilla, Colombia in 1949.

' His published books include a collection \, V _I "s~i~ of film criticism, Notas de cine: confe- L ._ siones de un critico amateur (Bogata, ~ f¢_ 1979), a book of poetry, Colpe de Dados ROBBIE MCCAULEY (Bogata, 1979), a collection of stories, E/ cadaver de 1980), and a 4 papa (Bogata, " novel of the cocaine trade, Colombian v

' Gold: a Novel of Power and Corruption, I published as an Avon paperback in 1984. ,Ol'€S€l'IfS

He has completed an unpublished novel, . .

_ _ __ . and is on a third novel >- 1 Soledad, working March 4 entitled The W Friday, Interpreter jaime Manrique. Photograph by Star 8:30 PM. members ~. \ Black. $5/$3

l V! .\ ' . / This program was guest-curated by David Unger and Isaac Co/demberg and co- sponsored bythe Latin American Writers Institute, a non-profit organization pro- "Robbie McCauley is one of those rare ltiilllw '~" moting the work of Latin American and Hispanic writers in New York State. Both performance artists who have figured out Q, a' the Institute and the Fiction program are funded in part by the Literature Pro- how to turn personal and family history , New York State Council on the Arts. gram of the outward, using it as a lens for wider O social criticism," writes Alissa Solomon \ of the Village Voice. INDIAN BLOOD is I '\ _._ the latest installment of ,_ McCauley's g serial Confessions `§"' \ ongoing performance, 'ax ofa Working Class Black Woman. In this

" ` work, she combines storytelling, slides, "wwf, ~ ARLES "~=--..._,,,,_~,,L-*ik IOHNSON video, and live music by an onstage jazz ensemble to examine race, class, and the Robbie McCauley in performance. & CLARENCE MAIOR American myth of freedom. Photograph by Vivian Selbo.

March 14 free afternoon Monday, McCau|ey's workshop is Performance Workshop to the and will the 8:30 PM. $4/$2 members open public explore March 5 connections between autobiography, Saturday, politics, and performance. 2:00 P.M_ Free Two of the most distinctive and impor- tant voices in contemporaiy American fiction, as well as contemporary Black literature, will read together in this very

event a . special which initiates spring » V 1988 series of readings by Black authors. *JJVr/~~ A PERFORMANCE HOCKEY

Charles johnson is the author to date of ___» Americas favorite is now a biweek- two highly regarded novels, Faith and the sport ll own R event! your musical in- Good 1974) and Oxherd- ly Bring Thing (Viking, A March 6 Sunday, struments, media and ing Tale (Grove Press, 1984), as well as g f " equipment, body and to these the recent collection of stories steeped Sunday evening improvisation

, at its g March 20 sessions. in voodoo folklore, The Sorcerer's Ap- \' ` Sunday, Participatory performance f, finest: no winners, no losers, no prentice, nominated for a PEN/Faulkner 5:00 P.M. Free puck. Newcomers are always welcome. Award for Fiction in 1987 Oxherding Tale Charles johnson. Photograph byjoseph in particular is an extraordinary novel Freeman. HALLWALLS STAFF IDEO Christine Tebes Executive Director |vA|c|| was Alan Sondheim Artistic Director Barbara Lattanzi Technical Director and Associate Video Curator EDITING Diane Wiedenbeck Office Manager/Publicist Ongoing Cheryl jackson Education Coordinator & Exhibition Technical Assistant SUITE Catherine Howe Exhibitions Curator DOUBLE VISION Edmund Cardoni Fiction Curator Our facility is available Monday- Steve Gallagher Film Curator Individual Artists Exhibitions: Friday 10:30 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. Access Don Metz Music Curator to the Suite is by proposal and Ronald Ehmke Performance Curator Chuck Peter Chris Hill Video Curator Agro and Stephens depends upon prior knowledge of the equipment. Armin Heurich Video Editing Coordinator Video Viewing Room Donna Kapa Video Editing Coordinator Basic editing workshops are held bi- POLITICS OF INFORMATION monthly on our system. Upcoming PROGRAM ASSISTANTS Wdeo Room Basic Workshop dates will be: Jacqui Barcos Film Viewing Brown Film Thursday, March 10 Byron Patrick Mills Exhibitions PAINTING AND PHOTOGRAPHY Tuesday, March 22 Dawn Dumpert House Manager & EXHIBIT The workshops run from 6-9 p.m. The lnterarts Grant workshop fee is 5.005.00 Coordinator March 25 Michael Huber Performance through Friday, Once a month we will offer an Ad- vanced which will focus on Workshop Hallwalls' programs of contemporary art are made NORTH AMERICAN NEW MUSIC any new equipment. The Advanced possible by grants from the National Endowment for Workshop date is: the Arts, Washington, D.C., a federal agency; the FESTIVAL March 9-I9 New York State Council on the Arts; the New York Wednesday, March 30 Council for the Humanities; Erie County, NY.; the 4 Performance: of Film/Video con- Friday The Workshop will be from 6-9 p.m. City Buffalo; Arts, NYC; and by Robbie McCauley 8:30 RM. The workshop fee is 50.50. tributions from corporations and foundations including: Action Data Systems, Cameron Baird 5 Saturday Workshop: Capacity for the Workshops is limited Foundation, Buffalo Foundation, Graphic Controls so advanced registration is en- Greater Buffalo Press, Half n' Half with Robbie 2:00 P.M. Corporation, McCauley couraged. Trading Co., The Seymour H. Knox Foundation, 6 Performance: Eckel Florist, M & T Bank, Metropolitan Life Foun- Sunday For more information on Workshops dation, Rockefeller Foundation, Tops Friendly Performance 5:00 and use of Hallwalls' Hockey RM. Editing Suite, Markets, and the Margaret L. Wendt Foundation. contact Hallwalls' Editing Suite Coor- Hallwalls is a member of the National Association Fiction: Yolanda Blanco 8:00 P.M. dinators. of Artists' Organizations and Media Alliance. Oscar Hijuelos at La Palma laime Manrique de Oro 8 Tuesday Film: Black Maria Film ANNOUNCEMENT and Video Festival 8:00 P.M. The Board of Directors of Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center is pleased to announce the election of its officers. They are: Frank I. Colantuono as President. Mr. Colantuono 12 Saturday Film: Su Friedrich is President of Independent Health and also serves on the Board of Studio Arena. Tony in person 8:00 RM. Conrad, a media artist and professor at SUNY Buffalo Center for Media Study is Vice President; R.D. Pohl, a writer and of the Hearthstone Manor is and 14 Monday Fiction: Charles lohnson manager Secretary; as Treasure; Mary Collins Demske, who is a stockbroker with Harold C. Brown, Inc. and Clarence Major 8:30 P.M. Newly elected Board members include Ellen DuBois, jackie Felix, Allyn Gallup, Biff 15 Tuesday Film: Raymond Red Henrich, Gary ludkins, Arlene Kaukus, Paul Martin, Kathleen O'Hara, and Marshall in person 8:00 PM. Wingate. The balance of the Board includes Armand Peter Thelma 16 Wednesday Video Viewing Room ]. Castellani, Campbell Flickinge; Hardiman, Duane Hatchett, Elveta Lee, and lames E. Rolls. These individuals represent #1 Screening 8:00 P.M. a blend of both the business and art sectors in Western New York.

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