Walls and Bridges
Walls and Bridges is a 10-day series of performances and critical explorations uniting French and American thinkers and artists from social sciences, philosophy, literature and live arts.
Cynthia Carr
Cynthia Carr © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
JOURNALIST - WRITER
United States
Biography
Cynthia Carr is the author of three books, most recently Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz (2012), winner of a Lambda Literary Award for " Gay Memoir/Biography " and finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize awarded by Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University. Her previous books are Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America (2006) and On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century (1993). Carr chronicled the work of contemporary artists as a Village Voice writer (with the byline C.Carr) in the 1980s and 1990s, publishing numerous articles on such figures as Karen Finley, Marina Abramovic, and Guillermo Gomez-Pena. Her work has also appeared in Artforum, The New York Times, Modern Painters, TDR: The Drama Review, and other publications. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007.
