Filmmaker/provocateur, humorist, art collector and all-around pop-cultural icon John Waters is coming to Cincinnati on Oct. 11 as part of the opening-week programming of the FotoFocus Biennial 2014. He will be at Memorial Hall, performing This Filthy World about his long, rewarding career. Additionally, Waters’ photograph “Inga #3 (1994)” is part of a FotoFocus exhibition, Stills. The theme of FotoFocus is “Photography in Dialogue.”
FotoFocus has released this (edited) list of other Memorial Hall events for its first week of programming:
Wednesday, October 8
Performance by Berlin-based filmmaker Martha Colburn, with a Cincinnati ensemble led by Tatiana Berman and the Constella Ensemble
Thursday, October 9: Photography in Dialogue
Film: Gerhard Richter Painting (2011)
Featured speakers: Gallerist Deborah Bell, New York; Gallerist Howard Greenberg, New York; Director and Chief Curator Raphaela Platow, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; Art Critic Richard B. Woodward, New York; and FotoFocus Artistic Director and Curator Kevin Moore.
Friday, October 10: Landscapes
Film: Somewhere to Disappear, with Alec Soth (2010)
Featured speakers: Curator and Art Dealer Damon Brandt, New York; Artist Elena Dorfman, Los Angeles; Artist Matthew Porter, New York; Artist David Benjamin Sherry, Los Angeles; Associate Curator Elizabeth Siegel, Art Institute of Chicago; Museum Director Alice Stites, 21c Museum Hotel; and FotoFocus Artistic Director and Curator Kevin Moore.
Keynote Speaker: Jeff L. Rosenheim, Curator in Charge, Department of Photographs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, on photography and the Civil War.
Saturday, October 11: Urbanscapes
Film: Bill Cunningham
Featured speakers: Architect José Garcia, Cincinnati; Curator Steven Matijcio, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; Photography Director Ivan Shaw, Vogue, New York; Associate Curator of Photography Brian Sholis, Cincinnati Art Museum; and FotoFocus Artistic Director and Curator Kevin Moore.
Sunday, October 12: Forum
Featuring presentations and panel discussions by local participants, such as Artists Jordan Tate and Aaron Cowan.
For complete details about the FotoFocus 2014 Biennial visit here.
This article appears in Aug 20-26, 2014.