Are Humans Disappearing?: A Photography Exhibit by Orin Langelle Opened May 5th
By photolangelle on April 30, 2017
Note: Ironically I am posting this on the Langelle Photography web page on May Day minus 1, 2017 in Barcelona, Spain; the city where this exhibit was photographed in 2008 – OL
An Opening Reception was held MAY 5th – 6 to 9 p.m. on First Friday at the ¡Buen Vivir! Gallery for Contemporary Art, 148 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo.
Wine and Hors d'Oeuvres were available
Exhibit closes May 26th
About the exhibit, from photographer Orin Langelle:
"I first exhibited this in Copenhagen, Denmark during the UN Convention on Climate Change in 2009 at the Klimaforum. It can be interpreted in many ways but my original take was on climate change and then others likened it to the fleeting movement of our existence. I've been urged by several artists to display the exhibit in Buffalo because they feel, as do I, in the age of Trump, we are in an existential crisis and the concept of humanity is rapidly disappearing.
"I shot the exhibit in Barcelona, Spain in 2008, in two nights while I stood on a balcony ledge photographing the people who passed by on the avenue below."
Spree Magazine Previews: Are Humans Disappearing?
ON View/ Langelle at ¡Buen Vivir!
Categories: ¡Buen Vivir! Gallery, Climate, Exhibit
Critical Information Collective Photo Exhibit at World Social Forum 2016
By photolangelle on August 4, 2016
Featured Langelle Photography home page slider (right) was taken by Langelle during a protest march in Durban, South Africa during the United Nations Climate Conference in 2011. Langelle has six photographs in this touring show
Critical Information Collective Exhibit – World Social Forum 2016
Indigenous protesters at UN climate negotiations in Cancun (2010) Photo: Luka Tomac
Montreal, Canada – A photographic exhibit, Climate Change: Realities and Resistance, will be shown at the World Social Forum 2016 in Montreal from 9 – 14 August. This is the Canadian premier of Critical Information Collective's touring exhibition.
The World Premier took palace in Paris, France during the United Nations Climate Conference in 2016 and the North American debut was at the ¡Buen Vivir! Gallery for Contemporary Art in Buffalo, New York, 1 March through 29 April 2016.
CIC's photos in Buffalo, Climate Change—Realities and Resistance, were part of the show Climate Change, System Change, Personal Change. Langellle Photography and ¡Buen Vivir! Gallery Director, Orin Langelle's portion of the show in Paris, Buffalo and Montreal is entitled Struggles for Justice.
The exhibition in Montreal will include new panels focusing on the theme of industrial livestock farming and its impact on climate change and biodiversity.
Categories: ¡Buen Vivir! Gallery, Activism, Climate, Earth, Exhibit, False solutions, Uncategorized
Tagged: climate change, Critical Information Collective, Langelle, Montreal, World Social Forum
Press Release: Ashley Powell Confronts Environmental Racism in Artist's Talk on First Friday April 1
By anneepetermann on March 23, 2016
Under Attack: Environmental Racism for Economic Benefit and Convenience
First Friday Artist's Talk by Ashley Powell on April 1 at 7 p.m.
Buffalo, NY (March 23, 2016) – Controversial artist Ashley Powell [1] will discuss her exhibit, Black on the Ground, White in the Air, on First Friday, April 1 at 7 p.m. at the ¡Buen Vivir! Gallery for Contemporary Art [2], 148 Elmwood Avenue in Buffalo.
Powell will talk about her exhibit and its relation to environmental racism, a topic of special relevance right now in light of rising awareness of lead poisoning in children of color and from low-income families in Flint Michigan, as well as right here in Buffalo. Powell's installation challenges people to think about the impacts of environmental racism and classism.
Powell says:
"Once again, we find ourselves attacked, and this attack isn't physically immediate or verbally abusive, but it certainly is sinister, covert, and ongoing. Its onset is slow but the damage is long lasting. We are being attacked with environmental racism and classism. This type of racism doesn't thrive off of foul words and violence, and this classism doesn't inspire juxtapositions of economic disparity and grotesque frivolity. Instead, it is a type of racism and classism that perpetuates a system that lawfully allows for low-income and non-white peoples to be deliberately subjected to debilitating pollution, toxicity, and degradation, all for economic benefit and convenience."
The Opening for Climate Change, System Change, Personal Change, March 4, 2016 PhotoLangelle.org
Powell's Black on the Ground, White in the Air, is part of a the show Climate Change, System Change, Personal Change which also includes: Climate Change—Realities and Resistance, by international photographers from the Critical Information Collective makes its US debut after hanging at the UN Paris climate summit in December
The artist's talk will be held on First Friday, April 1 at 7 p.m. at the ¡Buen Vivir! Gallery for Contemporary Art, 148 Elmwood Avenue in Buffalo. The gallery will be open for Allentown's First Friday from 6 – 9 p.m. Wine and hors d'oeuvres will be provided.
This event is free and open to the public.
Gallery Hours: The gallery is open Tuesday through Friday, 1:30 to 4:30 p.m., Friday evening 6 to 8 p.m. and Saturday afternoon 1 to 3 p.m., and by special appointment. The show runs through April 29.
Contact: Kip Doyle, Media Coordinator, <[email protected]> +1.716.867.4080 buenvivirgallery.org
Notes to Editor:
[1] Ashley Powell is a graduate student in the art department at the University of Buffalo. She made national headlines last fall when she executed a controversial art project on campus consisting of "White only" and "Black only" signs on elevators, restrooms and benches around campus. See New York Times article: 'White Only' Signs in Art Project at SUNY Buffalo Draw Concern.
[2] The ¡Buen Vivir! Gallery for Contemporary Art presents visual art in diverse media. The gallery sets itself apart by presenting work with thought-provoking messages in this quickly changing and challenging world of politics, ecology and economy.The gallery was founded to present an historical look at movements for change, struggle and everyday life. It is designed to counter the societal amnesia from which we collectively suffer—especially with regard to the history of social and ecological movements and issues, and to inspire new generations to participate in the making of a better world.
The name of the gallery, ¡Buen Vivir!, is a concept stemming from Indigenous and other cultures of the Southern Americas. ¡Buen vivir! means life in harmony between humans, communities, and the Earth–where work is not a job to make others wealthier, but for a livelihood that is sustaining, fulfilling, and in tune with the common good.
Tagged: art exhibit, Ashley Powell, classism, climate change, environmental justice, photography, racism