Fire in My Belly, A Work In Progress (1986-87). Un film de / A film by David Wojnarowicz.           Co-présenté par: The Program in Interdicisplinary Studies in Sexuality, the Concordia Research Chair in Sexual Representation and Documentary. VENDREDI 4 MARS 2011, 18H30 EV 1.605 1515 Ste-Catherine Ouest ENTRÉE LIBRE Co-commissaire de l’exposition Hide/Seek : Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, Katz discutera des enjeux du retrait controversé de l’œuvre de David Wojnarowicz A Fire in My Belly (1987) de l’exposition. Le champ d’étude de Jonathan Katz est à l’intersection de l’histoire de l’art et de la culture queer. Bien qu’il y ait un intérêt marqué pour ce champ il demeure peu étudié. Katz est le fondateur et directeur du Harvey Milk Institute, la plus importante organisation communautaire d’études lesbiennes et gais au monde. Il est directeur du programme doctoral en études visuelles à la State University of New York à Buffalo (SUNY). Il est l’auteur d’ouvrages et de nombreux articles parus chez Yale University Press, University of Chicago Press, Duke University Press, Routledge et Thames and Hudson. Il est, entre autres, co-commissaire avec David Ward de l’exposition Hide/Seek : Difference and Desire in American Portraiture présentée au Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery à Washington ( D.C.). Co-presented by: The Program in Interdisciplinary Studies in Sexuality and the Concordia Research Chair in Sexual Representation and Documentary. FRIDAY MARCH 4 2011, 6:30 PM EV 1.605 1515 St. Catherine West FREE ADMISSION Co-curator of the exhibition Hide/Seek : Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, Katz will discuss the censoring of the video A Fire in My Belly (1987) by David Wojnarowicz from the exhibition, and much more. Jonathan Katz works at the intersection of art history and queer history, one of the busiest intersections in American culture, and yet one of the least studied. He is the Founder and Chair of the Harvey Milk Institute, the largest gay and lesbian studies community-based educational institute in the world. He is the Chair of the Doctoral Program In Visual Studies at State University of New York, Buffallo and his writings have been published by Yale University Press, University of Chicago Press, Duke University Press, Routledge and Thames and Hudson. He curated, with David Ward, Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, a groundbreaking exhibition held recently at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Jonathan Katz will discuss the regrettable removal of David Wojnarowicz’s A Fire in My Belly (1987) from this exhibition, and much more.     RENSEIGNEMENTS / INFORMATION Thomas Waugh I waugh@alcor.concordia.ca

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