Friday August 24rd, 8pm
Katherine Bauer
The End of Time and Emergence of The Subparticle Moons
Live expanded cinema performance
RSVP recommended to rsvp@microscopegallery.com
Courtesy of Katherine Bauer and Microscope Gallery
Microscope is pleased to present “The End of Time and Emergence of The Subparticle Moons”, a live expanded cinema performance by Katherine Bauer taking place in connection with her current exhibition Cinematic Death Moon Return: Impact Phase and within the title installation work. The event is the closing performance of the “Impact Phase” as well as the final ritual of the artist’s Cinematic Death Moon Return (CDMR) cycle.
The three-part CDMR is based upon a mythology created by Bauer: the moon was a part of Earth expelled in a volcanic explosion; the hole it left behind became a quarry from which minerals were mined and technology created including the materials and apparatuses of cinema; the magnetic pull of the technologies eventually drew the moon back to Earth (the “Impact Phase”).
Bauer will perform with 35mm projector Xenon bulbs, poke berry, popcorn power, “mashed” moon flowers and multiple projections onto the movie screen (Silver Screen), film platter (Moon Disc), and other areas of the exhibition. New 16mm film loops and 35mm slides made by the artist with many of those substances attempt to transmute the physical components of her installation into beams of light.
“This performance takes place after the Impact of the Moon with the Silver Screen; out of the Circle of Confusion, and the Xenon’s explosion, emerges the Subparticle Moon. See the transmutation of materials from the Cinematic Death Moon Return landscape onto flesh and then projected into the installation space. This ritualized embodiment of the narrative will conclude the bio-machinic lunorial phases”. — KB
Duration: approx. 30 minutes
Free admission
Limited Seating, RSVP recommended
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Katherine Bauer works primarily with celluloid film and the cinematic apparatus in works encompassing the practices of sculpture, photography, installation and live performance. Much of Bauer’s work involves mythologies, folklores, and narratives as told through the means of obsolete technologies. In addition to Microscope Gallery, her work has exhibited at Participant Inc., NY; Shoot the Lobster, Dusseldorf, Germany; Immanence Gallery, Paris, France, and others. Bauer’s solo exhibitions have been reviewed in Artforum, photograph magazine, and The Village Voice, among others. Her 2017 solo exhibit “Cinematic Death Moon Return: Forest Phase…” in Catskill, NY appeared in Artsy among their “Favorite Shows of 2017” and she was selected among the “Three Artists at NADA New York Who Are Reinventing the Photogram” in Artspace in 2015. Bauer received a ESP TV Unit 11 residency (2017), a Cité Internationale des Arts Paris Residency (2012-13), and a Carla Bruni-Sarkozy Foundation Fellowship (2012-13). She holds a BA in Film and Electronic Arts from Bard College and a MFA from NYU Steinhardt (2013). Katherine Bauer currently lives and works between New York City and Hudson, New York.
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Microscope Gallery Event Series 2018 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).
Microscope is pleased to present “The End of Time and Emergence of The Subparticle Moons”, a live expanded cinema performance by Katherine Bauer taking place in connection with her current exhibition Cinematic Death Moon Return: Impact Phase and within the title installation work. The event is the closing performance of the “Impact Phase” as well as the final ritual of the artist’s Cinematic Death Moon Return (CDMR) cycle.
The three-part CDMR is based upon a mythology created by Bauer: the moon was a part of Earth expelled in a volcanic explosion; the hole it left behind became a quarry from which minerals were mined and technology created including the materials and apparatuses of cinema; the magnetic pull of the technologies eventually drew the moon back to Earth (the “Impact Phase”).
Bauer will perform with 35mm projector Xenon bulbs, poke berry, popcorn power, “mashed” moon flowers and multiple projections onto the movie screen (Silver Screen), film platter (Moon Disc), and other areas of the exhibition. New 16mm film loops and 35mm slides made by the artist with many of those substances attempt to transmute the physical components of her installation into beams of light.
“This performance takes place after the Impact of the Moon with the Silver Screen; out of the Circle of Confusion, and the Xenon’s explosion, emerges the Subparticle Moon. See the transmutation of materials from the Cinematic Death Moon Return landscape onto flesh and then projected into the installation space. This ritualized embodiment of the narrative will conclude the bio-machinic lunorial phases”. — KB
Duration: approx. 30 minutes
Free admission
Limited Seating, RSVP recommended
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Katherine Bauer works primarily with celluloid film and the cinematic apparatus in works encompassing the practices of sculpture, photography, installation and live performance. Much of Bauer’s work involves mythologies, folklores, and narratives as told through the means of obsolete technologies. In addition to Microscope Gallery, her work has exhibited at Participant Inc., NY; Shoot the Lobster, Dusseldorf, Germany; Immanence Gallery, Paris, France, and others. Bauer’s solo exhibitions have been reviewed in Artforum, photograph magazine, and The Village Voice, among others. Her 2017 solo exhibit “Cinematic Death Moon Return: Forest Phase…” in Catskill, NY appeared in Artsy among their “Favorite Shows of 2017” and she was selected among the “Three Artists at NADA New York Who Are Reinventing the Photogram” in Artspace in 2015. Bauer received a ESP TV Unit 11 residency (2017), a Cité Internationale des Arts Paris Residency (2012-13), and a Carla Bruni-Sarkozy Foundation Fellowship (2012-13). She holds a BA in Film and Electronic Arts from Bard College and a MFA from NYU Steinhardt (2013). Katherine Bauer currently lives and works between New York City and Hudson, New York.
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Microscope Gallery Event Series 2018 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).
