June 10 Poetry Reading & Discussion

June 10, 7:30 pm
You are invited to attend a night of poetry readings and a conversation about New Orleans, urban apocalypse, grief and the poetics of space

featuring photoraphs by Stephen Hilger
Readings by Rickey Laurentiis and Nicole Cooleywith a discussion moderated by Gregg M. Horowitz
In conjunction with BACK OF TOWN,
photographs of Stephen Hilger
showing at Berl's until June 16

May 20 Art Opening for BACK OF TOWN, photographs by Stephen Hilger

You are invited to attend the opening for

BACK OF TOWN
Photographs by Stephen Hilger

May 20, 7:30 pm

Hilger's photographs chronicle the razing of more than 200 homes nearby Charity Hospital in New Orleans. The doomed neighborhood came to be called “Lower Mid-City.” Earlier recollections place it in the “Back of Town.” Architectural gems were boarded up, invaded by Cat’s Claw. Sidewalks, were overgrown and littered with debris. In a last-ditch effort to preserve the neighborhood, historic homes were moved out, although the former residents had already been forgotten.

Stephen Hilger is a photographer based in Brooklyn. Hilger’s photographs trace historical memory in the social landscape. He has shown widely in the U.S. and abroad including exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, and the Muse Center for Photography and the Moving Image. Hilger chronicled Lower Mid-City, a historic New Orleans neighborhood, as it faced its demolition and erasure between 2009-2012. A book reflecting on the disappearing neighborhood entitled, “Back of Town,” is in the works and photographs from the project will be on view at Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop during May and June 2014. He received his B.A. and M.F.A. degrees from Columbia University and participated in the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program. Hilger also writes about photography and contemporary art and curates exhibitions including solo shows by Lee Friedlander and Andy Warhol. He currently teaches at Pratt Institute where he is the Chair of the Photography Department.

Come view their story captured in these photographs. "There goes the neighborhood."

Opening May 20, 7:30

Poetry Reading & Discussion with Rickey Laurentiis, Nicole Cooley, Stephen Hilger, and Gregg M Horowitz, June 10, 7:30

Show closes June 17

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