Last Address Tribute Walk: East Village

LAST ADDRESS TRIBUTE WALK
3:00 - 5:00 PM, Sunday August 17 2014
Starting at Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Ave, NYC

TRIBUTING ARTISTS WHO DIED OF HIV/AIDS AT THEIR LAST ADDRESSES.
Starting with a screening of Ira Sachs’ touching Last Address (2010, 9 min.) at Anthology Film Archives, the event will move to the streets of the East Village where writer and curator Alex Fialho will lead a tribute walk honoring artists lost to AIDS. At each stop of an artist's last residential address, a drawing by Win Mixter and rose will be left in tribute, and a special guest will share a reading related to the artist.

In a spirit of lively remembrance, Joshua Lubin-Levy will read at the last address of Jack Smith (21 1^st Avenue); Wendy Olsoff will read at the last NYC address of Martin Wong (141 Ridge Street); Riley Hooker will be reading at the last address of Arthur Russell (437 E. 12th Street); Bryn Kelly will tribute Valerie Blitz by reading at ABC No Rio (156 Rivington Street); Narcissister will read at the last address of Klaus Nomi (103 St. Marks Place); and Lyle Ashton Harris and Alex Fialho will read at the last address of Peter Hujar and David Wojnarowicz (189 2^nd Avenue).

Though these may be the last addresses where each artist lived, the life of their work continues to address, inspire, and live with a new generation today.The constellation of readings and roses, drawings and doorsteps of the tribute walks is a site for community based on both remembrance and response.

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Read about last year’s Last Address Tribute Walk on the Visual AIDS blog.