Performative Lecture: GANGWAY

In GANGWAY, Athens-based artist, Keith Wilson, presents a live documentary performance about a 106-year-old San Francisco gay bar. Before its closure in 2018, The Gangway was the site of police raids, queer community organizing, early AIDS activism, and general joy-making. Combining archival material, 3D models and performance, this immersive piece explores new models for experiencing lost places and the creation of future narratives.

Keith Wilson is a filmmaker and artist based in Athens, Georgia whose work has screened at Sundance, the Berlinale, the U.S. National Gallery of Art, documenta14, and the Museum of Modern Art. He is currently a Creative Producing Fellow with the Sundance Institute for the feature documentary I Didn’t See You There, which premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. His short film The Tree screened at MoMA's 2019 Doc Fortnight program, DOC NYC, and was exhibited as a storefront installation at Artist Television Access in San Francisco. He was the producer, director of photography and editor of Water Makes Us Wet, a documentary feature directed by Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens that premiered at documenta14 in Kassel, Germany. Keith was the director of photography and producer of INTERIOR. LEATHER BAR., which premiered at Sundance and was released theatrically by Strand Releasing. He is a member-owner of New Day Films, a 40 year-old documentary distribution cooperative.

Wilson was a 2019 Monroe Fellow at Tulane University's New Orleans Center for the Gulf South for The Most Beautiful Beach, a photography project on the architecture of Panama City Beach, Florida. In addition to solo shows in Austin, Texas and Berkeley, California, his artist book Every Building on Burnet [burn-it] Road was exhibited at the Gagosian Gallery and the Brandhorst Museum. His photography books See I Saw (2014) and Hyde Park Apartments (2010) are published by Publication Studio, and, with Shannon O'Malley, he is the co-creator and editor of Gay Men Draw Vaginas. Wilson currently teaches in the Entertainment & Media Studies Department at the University of Georgia, has an MFA in film production from the Radio-TV-Film Department at UT-Austin, and grew up on a cul-de-sac in suburban Atlanta.