All proceeds go to the Hetrick-Martin Institute for NYC and Newark’s LGBTQ Youth: http://www.hmi.org/
Anastasia Clarke
Max Alper/Camilla Padgitt-Coles
Julia Santoli
David Grubbs
For the 10th and final event of “Dreamlands: Expanded“, a series of expanded cinema events organized by Microscope in collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art as part of the exhibition “Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016“, the gallery is thrilled to present a new multi-projection and sound performance The Owl Flies at Twilight composed by the Optipus collective & orchestra in its largest configuration to date featuring 28 artists.
New York collective or “media laboratory” Optipus, led by Bradley Eros, hints at the historic demise of analog media and the wisdom resulting from this awareness in their new work titled “The Owl Flies at Twilight”, referencing G.W.F. Hegel’s famous quote. Three distinct movements examine specific connections between vision and sound: Psychedelic, liquid light, and other complex color compositions paired with electronics; Figurative and photographic images coupled with strings; Minimal uses of pure colors, flickers, and gels accompanied by percussion elements. The full list of film and sound artists in this expanding and contracting collective will be announced closer to the date of the performance.
Projections by: Bradley Eros, Lary Seven, Gil Arno, Katherine Bauer, Rachael Guma, Genevieve H-K, Kenneth Zoran Curwood, Joel Schlemowitz, Tim Geraghty, Sarah Halpern, Simon Liu, Alison Nguyen, Lily Jue Sheng, Antonia Kuo, Shona Masarin & Andrew Hurst
Sound by: Michael Evans, David Grollman, Gabriel Guma, Rachael Guma, Victoria Keddie, Scott Kiernan, Zach Layton, Jake Naussbaum, Laura Ortman, Rachelle Rahme, Kevin Shea, Richard Sylvarnes, Mia Theodoratus
About “Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016”
This fall, the Whitney Museum of American Art presents Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016, a landmark exhibition that focuses on the ways in which technology has created new forms of immersive experience using the moving image. Artists have dismantled and reassembled the conventions of cinema—screen, projection, darkness—to create new readings of space, optical form, and time. The exhibition will fill the Museum’s 18,000-square-foot Neil Bluhm Family Galleries on the fifth floor, as well as the adjacent Kaufman Gallery, and will include a substantial film program in the Susan and John Hess Family Theater, and a series of expanded cinema events organized by Microscope Gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn, in collaboration with the Whitney. Organized by Chrissie Iles, the Whitney’s Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator.
Lead Underwriting Support Provided by the Robert D. Bielecki Foundation.
Generous Support provided by J.J. Kasper, Paul Jost, and Natasha Reatig.
This presentation is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council of the Arts’ Electronic Media & Film Presentation Funds grant program, administered by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes.
Microscope Gallery Event Series is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).
Additional Support provided by Knockdown Center and Negativland.
Sponsored by Colorlab and The Bodega. Official Media Partner: The Brooklyn Rail.
This event is part of a fundraising series of music, performances, and workshops accompanying NASTY WOMEN exhibition, on view at Knockdown Center January 12-15th, 2017. Proceeds are in benefit of select organizations working towards women’s reproductive health and community health initiatives.
THICK
Towanda
Mean Siders
Protruders
https://protruders.bandcamp.com/releases
Psychic TV’s Genesis P-Orridge and Edley ODowd DJ the Ready Room
This event is part of a fundraising series of music, performances, and workshops accompanying NASTY WOMEN exhibition, on view at Knockdown Center January 12-15th, 2017. NASTY WOMEN evening programming can be experienced through the purchase of a $20 all-access pass that grants you access to every performance happening in the building that evening. Proceeds go towards select organizations working towards women’s reproductive health and community health initiatives.
LOUD & UNAPOLOGETIC: Setting the Tone for 2017 and Beyond
Join Tom Tom Magazine and the Oral History of Female Drummers for 10 min sets of loud and unapologetic drumming by female and gender non-conforming drummers. Throughout the day at Knockdown Center’s NASTY WOMEN Exhibition, 6 drummers will play and have their voices heard. the drumming will happen all throughout the space.
Schedule of performances:
12:00pm
2:00pm
3:50pm
5:50pm
This event is part of a fundraising series of music, performances, and workshops accompanying NASTY WOMEN exhibition, on view at Knockdown Center January 12-15th, 2017. Day time performances are free and open to the public, while evening programming can be experienced through the purchase of a $20 all-access pass that grants you access to every performance happening in the building that evening. Proceeds in benefit of select charities working towards women’s reproductive health and community health initiatives.
This event is part of a fundraising series of music, performances, and workshops accompanying NASTY WOMEN exhibition, on view at Knockdown Center January 12-15th, 2017. NASTY WOMEN evening programming can be experienced through the purchase of a $20 all-access pass that grants you access to every performance happening in the building that evening. Proceeds go towards select charities working towards women’s reproductive health and community health initiatives.
A Deer A Horse
PRIMA
Ex-Girlfriends
Debbie Downers
This event is part of a fundraising series of music, performances, and workshops accompanying NASTY WOMEN exhibition, on view at Knockdown Center January 12-15th, 2017. NASTY WOMEN evening programming can be experienced through the purchase of a $20 all-access pass that grants you access to every performance happening in the building that evening. Proceeds go towards select organizations working towards women’s reproductive health and community health initiatives.
ROUSE is a monthly concert series featuring all-women curated line ups. Each month, 50% or more of the concert’s ticket sales will be donated to a select charity which supports women. ROUSE will rotate through venues throughout New York City, and will select charities to support based on the demographics of the venue’s neighborhood.
Emily Wells
Bio: So many have tried to define Wells’ one woman experience as future classical, down tempo hip hop, greased-up blues, spectral folk, etc. It doesn’t matter. By the time their creative label goes to print, Emily Wells is pouring gas on her former self and lighting the way. Classically trained as a violinist, Wells also performs using acoustic drums, synthesizers, and beat machines. In 2016 Wells released the critically acclaimed full length “Promise” on her label Thesis & Instinct and toured the US and Europe. She will release a follow up EP early 2017.
www.emilywellsmusic.com
Christina Courtin
Christina Courtin is a multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter living in Brooklyn, New York. She has released two solo recordings of original genre-bending music, one self-titled on Nonesuch (2009) and the other entitled ‘Varsity’ on Hundred Pockets Records (2013).
As a member of the neo-classical NYC ensemble The Knight’s, she has been a part of the release of 6 of their albums on Sony Classical records and shared a 2011 Juno award A Juilliard graduate in Violin Performance, she has written and performed music for national television and radio audiences, has strong regional followings in sophisticated hotbeds of music worldwide and has a dedicated NYC following for her work in voice, violin, viola, and guitar.
When Christina isn’t writing and singing her own material, she performs regularly as a side man and session musician in and around NYC. She has teamed up with Fun., Dirty Projectors, Sara Watkins, The Knights, Nick Cave, Paul McCartney, Breastfist, Nick Thune, Marianne Faithful, Yo-Yo Ma, Sufjan Stevens, Antony and the Johnsons, Marc Ribot, Iron and Wine, Sara Bareillas, and Teddy Thompson.
Julia Easterlin
Information: www.juliaeasterlin.com
WOAHMONE! An afterparty for the closing weekend of the exhibition Read My Lips. The evening will feature Nath Ann Carrera and Savannah Knoop spinning auditory HMONES and the Sumptuous Asstral Projections of Ethan Weinstock and Bleue Liverpool!
About Read My Lips
Read My Lips is a two-person show featuring work by Kerry Downey and Loren Britton that considers queer abstraction as an investment in indeterminacy, which allows for an expansive sense of embodiment, including but not limited to, the slipperiness of gender, affect, desire, and language.
Presented by Tinnitus and LPR
Photo by Estelle Hanania 2015
Detail from mural Vita – Emanuel Vigeland Mausoleum, Oslo
© Emanuel Vigeland Museum / ARS 2015