{"id":10878,"date":"2013-05-15T02:21:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T06:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/?page_id=10878"},"modified":"2013-05-15T12:18:04","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T16:18:04","slug":"10878-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/?page_id=10878","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday May 18, 7pm<\/strong><\/span>
\n THE BLACK BIRD<\/strong><\/span>
\n live moving image and sound performance by Sarah Halpern<\/span>
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\n\u00a9 Image courtesy of Sarah Halpern
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\nMicroscope Gallery welcomes Sarah Halpern back to the gallery for a special evening of moving image and sound performances. For “The Black Bird”, Halpern reappropriates iconic imagery and written texts through the use of cut outs and collage in three live light & sound compositions involving 16mm film, filmless projection, and handmade 35mm film slides.<\/span><\/p>\n

The performances in “The Black Bird” relate to the artist’s current exhibition “Paper Plexus”, scheduled to close on Sunday May 19. Musician Matt Wellins joins Halpern on the final piece of the night.<\/span><\/p>\n

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PROGRAM:<\/strong><\/span>
\n approximately 60 minutes<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The Great Ray<\/em><\/strong>,<\/em>\u00a0 35mm handmade slides, 10 min, 2011<\/span>
\n The collage slides in the performance are made from still frames of James Whale’s 1933 classic, \u201cFrankenstein\u201d. In the film, the scientist creates his \u201cmonster\u201d by cutting up, sewing together and animating the body parts of the deceased. The actor\u2019s actions were frozen through photography, edited and then \u201ccome to life\u201d through cinema. Stills from the movie were then found, cut out and reassembled once more by Halpern. Through these cycles of motion and stillness, artistic assemblage is recognized as a life giving force.<\/span><\/p>\n

Paper Trail,<\/em><\/strong> performance with film strip projector, 25 min, 2013<\/span>
\n Light shines through a paper scroll, projecting pieces of The Norton Anthology of American Literature on screen. The scroll physically resembles a strip of film and is exhibited in a similar manner as a way to relate books and cinema, reading and watching, psychological projection and the physical projection of light.<\/span><\/p>\n

Malted Confections,<\/em><\/strong>\u00a016mm film and sound, 25 min, 2012<\/span>
\n This performance is a collaboration with Matt Wellins wherein cut-out objects from \u201cThe Maltese Falcon\u201d are left floating in blackness. Clips from the soundtrack are re-arranged, altered, and played out of sync. Heads are animated but bodiless, voices are heard without an apparent speaker. The work attempts to deal with loaded images and language, to confront a disembodied set of symbols.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n SARAH HALPERN is an artist working with 16mm film, collage on paper, 35mm slides, music and performance. Her work is largely focused on cinematic time and the active role of the viewer. Halpern\u2019s work been shown previously at venues including The Museum of Moving Image, The Kitchen, Participant Inc, Anthology Film Archives, and Microscope Gallery. Halpern holds a B.A. in Film and Electronic Arts from Bard College.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday May 18, 7pm THE BLACK BIRD live moving image and sound performance by Sarah Halpern admission $6 \u00a9 Image courtesy of Sarah Halpern Microscope Gallery welcomes Sarah Halpern back to the gallery for a special evening of moving image and sound performances. For “The Black Bird”, Halpern reappropriates iconic imagery and written texts through […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10878","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10878"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10881,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10878\/revisions\/10881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}