Thursday, October 11, 2012
Visual Arts Contemplating the 'Lonesome City' today at KSU
Posted by Debbie Michaud @DebsMichaud on Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 12:55 PM
- Kennesaw State University
- View of Matt Haffner's Walking Through the Lonesome City
Today Kennesaw State University and it's ever-ballooning arts program host two events worth the trek OTP to the collegiate compound. At 2 p.m. in the Onyx Theater, the Zuckerman Museum of Art is hosting a discussion on public art. The solid list of panelists includes Katherine Dirga, Atlanta Airport Art program, Eddie Granderson, city of Atlanta Department of Parks, Matt Haffner, KSU faculty artist, and Mónica Campana, Living Walls.
Immediately following the hour-long talk is the opening reception and artist talk for Walking Through the Lonesome City, Haffner's site-specific installation funded by an NEA Art Works grant. You might remember Haffner's work from, among other things, 2010's "Convergent Frequencies," a pop-up gallery at the corner of Krog and Irwin streets conceived around 45-foot-long, 4-ton steel shipping containers which Haffner covered with his streetscape wheatpastes. Walking Through the Lonesome City continues to build on similar narratives with, according to the release, "video portraits of working-class individuals will be projected over vinyl and aluminum cutouts that detail aspects of an urban environment. This visual narrative will be visible to anyone walking in or near the building, collapsing the distinction between inside and outside, art and architecture, and gallery and public space." The installation remains on view through March 29, 2013 in case you can't make it tonight, but you should try and make it tonight.
More photos after the jump.
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