Bradley Eros is an artist working in myriad media: experimental film & video, collage, photography, performance, sound, text, contracted and expanded cinema & installation. Also a maverick curator, composer, designer & investigator. Concepts include: ephemeral cinema, mediamystics, subterranean science, erotic psyche, cinema povera, poetic accidents, catalyst / critique, and musique plastique.
Exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, NY; The American Century at the Whitney Musuem, NY; MoMA, NY; MoMA PS1, Queens, NY; The Kitchen, NY; New Museum, NY; Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA; Performs09, Exit Art, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), NY; The New York, London & Rotterdam Film Festivals, Millennium, Light Industry, Issue Project Room, White Box, Microscope Gallery, Participant Inc, Cabinet, ABC No Rio, Pacific Film Archives, SF Cinematheque, No.w.here in London, Lightcone in Paris, Arsenal in Berlin, Image Forum in Tokyo. He has collaborated with the Alchemical Theater, the band Circle X, Voom HD Lab, expanded cinema groups kinoSonik & Arcane Project, and currently Optipus (film group).
Selected Exhibitions & Screenings
2012
Catalysts : Dervish Machine exegesis, Anthology Film Archives, NYC
ccc: collage cassette covers with audio, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn NY
Looking at Music #3 – The Atom & Eve of Destruction, MoMA, NY
Optipus: Spectrum, Séance, The Owl of Minerva, The Kitchen, NY
a lab is a lab is a lab, The Kitchen, NY
Camera Darling, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn NY
Independence Returns, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn NY
Arcane Project: Chinese Nightingale, MONO NO AWARE, Lumenhouse gallery, Brooklyn NY
fff!!! (Futurist Film Funeral), for Performa09, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn NY
Issue Project Room: Darmstadt, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn NY
2008
VOID for Film: imageless cinema, Anthology Film Archives, NYC2007
a lab is a lab is a lab, The Kitchen, NYC
2006
OptoSonic Tea – Musique Plastique: contracted film performance, Diapason Gallery, Brooklyn NY
Voom HD Lab – Rite of the Black Sun: digital video, Anthology Film Archives, NYC
2005
Aerodynamics of the Hovering Hummingbird, Millennium Film Workshop, NYC
2004
Ocula: trilogy of paracinema works: spidery, Aurora Borealis, Deliquescence, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, NYC
2003
Filmmakers’ Co-Optical: film, zine, curation, Anthology Film Archives, NYC
burn (or, The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics), Scanner: New York Video Festival, NYC
2002
Aurora Borealis, Osmosis: films, London Film Festival, London UK
Views of the Avant-Garde – Osmosis: film, New York Film Festival, Lincoln Center, NYC
2001
Robert Beck Memorial Cinema program & Ocularis program: Imitation of Kiss, Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh PA
2000
American Century – Dervish Machine: film (+ curation), Whitney Museum, NYC
1999
Pacific Film Archives – RBMC – torqued ellipsis: film & video, found & made
San Francisco Cinematheque – Robert Beck Memorial Cinema – films & expanded cinema
1998
RBMC – Subterranean Science: synaesthetic films, Collective/Unconscious, NYC
1996
Big as Life : A History of 8mm Film – Dervish Machine, Pyrotechnics, Hystery: films, MoMA, NY
1995
Opium Den – Subverted Horseplay: chamber film performance, Exit Art, NYC
1992
Mediamystics: films, video & performance, Arsenal, Berlin
1990
Soma Sema: film, Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge MA
1988
Erotic Psyche: retrospective – films & performances, San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco CA
1987
The Oracle: film-sound performance, Exit Art, NYC
1986
MetaBody exhibition: drawing, collage, film, performance, Hallwalls, Buffalo
1985
Erotic Psyche: film, video, sound, performance, Collective for Living Cinema
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