Fatigue Performance
The Buffalo Correspondance School and the Burchfield Penney Art Center are proud to present Fatigue Performance, an immersive experiential event blending poetry, music, and art. This unique collaboration will take place at the Burchfield Penney Art Center on Friday, October 24, 2025.
The evening will feature poet and culture worker Noah Falck performing new poems from his upcoming collection Fatigue Performance alongside the musical group Plant Water (Kevin Cain, guitar/loops; Patrick Jackson, bass; and Ryan Campbell percussion/drums). The unfolding sonic experience will be engulfed by projection artwork and design by Ariel Aberg-Riger.
Featured Artists
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Ariel Aberg-RigerVisual StorytellerAriel Aberg-Riger is a visual storyteller who believes in the power of melding forms and morphing mediums to tell expansive narratives. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, MIT Technology Review, and Teen Vogue, and her debut book America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History met with critical acclaim (2023 Kirkus Prize, 2024 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction finalist, multiple Best Book of the Year as well as Best Book of the *21st Century* lists). Beyond the page, she’s performed her visual stories with the Kronos Quartet at Carnegie Hall, projected them onto the side of an abandoned grain elevator, exhibited them in galleries, painted them throughout towns as murals, and mailed them across the country as the co-founder of the Buffalo Correspondance School. She lives with her wife and two kids in Los Angeles, California.
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Noah FalckPoet, Culture WorkerNoah Falck is the author of Exclusions (Tupelo Press, 2020) finalist for The Believer Book Award for poetry and the recent chapbooks Prerecorded Weather (co-written with Matt McBride) winner of the James Tate Prize for Poetry and normal normal (Foundlings Press, 2022). His work has appeared in the Kenyon Review, Literary Hub, Poetry Daily, Poets.org, and has been anthologized in Poem-A-Day 365 Poems for Every Occasion. He works at Just Buffalo Literary Center and in 2013 founded the Silo City Reading Series, a multimedia poetry event series inside a 120-foot-high, 100-year-old abandoned grain elevator.
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Plant WaterBandPlant Water is a Buffalo-based musical dialogue between Kevin Cain, Ryan Campbell, and Patrick Jackson. Each performance is based on enacting a sonic experience for the audience to feel rooted in the present moment.
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