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Monday November 11, 7pm<\/span><\/strong>
\nStasis and Spasm <\/span><\/strong>
\nVideos by Ellie Irons<\/span>
\nw\/ Dan Phiffer<\/span>
\nadmission $6 – artists in person<\/span><\/em><\/h1>\n

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Still from Speculative Aboriculture <\/em>(Ellie Irons, 2011-12) \u00a9 courtesy of the artist
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\nMicroscope Gallery welcomes Bushwick-based artist Ellie Irons for a screening of recent short videos and the Brooklyn debut of Flight Lines<\/em>, a collaboration by Irons and Dan Phiffer. In these works, Irons focuses on moments of stasis and spasm to contemplate the way human activities are shifting and reshaping the environment. Her camera is employed for close and sustained looking at subjects and settings that are easily ignored and often invisible, such as the earth, the atmosphere, cycles of erosion and accretion, and our own hyper-local ecosystems. Several of the works involve microscopy and macro photography. The video pieces will be punctuated by brief spoken texts drawn from and in response to theorists, philosophers and ecologists, ranging from Rachel Carson to Timothy Morton. <\/span>
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\nIrons has previously screened at Microscope\u2019s Holy Bos!<\/em> 2012 and Now What<\/em> in January this year.<\/span>
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\nELLIE IRONS is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in New York exploring the interplay of humanity and ecology through drawings, environmental sculpture and new media. Recent exhibitions and projects include\u00a0Neversink Transmissions, and public project with Daniel Phiffer, group shows at Smack Mellon, Wave Hill\u2019s Glyndor Gallery, The Bronx\u00a0Museum\u2019s AIM Biennial and a solo show at the Queens Botanical Garden. Recent residencies include the Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University, the SVA Nature and Technology Lab\u00a0and a Signal Fire Outpost Residency. Irons is a member of the Bushwick-based collaborative Future\u00a0Archaeology.\u00a0She studied Environmental Science and Art as an undergraduate in California and received an MFA from Hunter College in 2009.<\/span>
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\nDAN PHIFFER is a new media hacker and artist from California, currently working often with cheap DIY computer networks. In addition to collaborating on\u00a0Flight Lines, he\u2019s been developing a pirate\u00a0wifi kit called Occupy.here. Phiffer\u00a0has exhibited his work at Ars Electronica, Transmediale, MoMA, SFMOMA and PS 1 and received commissions from Rhizome, Triple Canopy and\u00a0Turbulence.org. Phiffer atteneded NYU\u2019s ITP graduate program. He is a member of the Bushwick-based collaborative Future Archaeology <\/span>
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Program:<\/span><\/strong>
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\nUrban Soil Horizon<\/span><\/strong>
\nElle Irons, HD video, color, sound, 5 min, 2011-2013<\/span><\/em>
\nDocumenting the existence of dirt in a world of concrete and asphalt,\u00a0Urban Soil Horizon\u00a0contrasts the age old cycles of erosion and accretion with the rhythms of a contemporary, human-driven ecosystem.\u2028<\/span>
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\nSpeculative Aboriculture<\/span><\/strong>
\nEllie Irons, HD video, color, sound, 6.5 min, 2011-12<\/span><\/em>
\nSpeculative Aboriculture\u00a0explores a conception of ecology that encompasses human activity, erasing the artificial borders between humans and habitat. The video stems from my fascination\u00a0with the growing field of synthetic biology. It weaves together footage of a highly contrived sculptural form built from storm-downed branches, found wires and living moss with shots taken in a\u00a0small suburban forest in Long Island. The minute details of this hybrid environment are accompanied by a shifting soundscape of traffic, electricity and forest life.\u2028<\/span>
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\nPhytoplastic<\/span><\/strong>
\nEllie Irons, HD video, color, sound, 3.5 min, 2012<\/span><\/em>
\nPhytoplastic\u00a0tracks the deterioration of a microscopic aquatic ecosystem through physical and chemical pollution. A small puddle of water containing a healthy community of algae and other\u00a0phytoplankton grown from a sample of Hudson River water are subject to a barrage of pollutants, from plastic particles to bleach, silt and dish soap, creating a succinct portrait of ecosystem\u00a0collapse. The footage for this piece was shot through a Motic Compound Microscope at the SVA Nature and Technology Lab. Sound was recorded along the Hudson River piers and at Echo\u00a0Lake in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.\u00a0\u2028<\/span>
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\nInvasive Pigments<\/span><\/strong>
\nEllie Irons, HD video, color, sound, 4 min, 2013<\/span><\/em>
\nExploring the methodology associated with my ongoing\u00a0Invasive Pigments\u00a0project, this video focuses in on two spontaneous urban plants that provide an unexpected source of color in\u00a0Bushwick\u2019s concrete-laden landscape. Chronicling the process from pigment foraging to painting, this piece portends a new approach to the much maligned weeds that share our urban\u00a0landscape.\u2028<\/span>
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\nHandiwork (Environments 1-3)<\/span><\/strong>
\nEllie Irons, HD video, color, sound, 5 minutes, 2013 <\/span><\/em>
\nEnvisioning the weight of humanity on organic structures large and small, this series of short vignettes delves into the microscopic landscape as a mechanism for contemplating ecological\u00a0cycles, changes of state, erosion, accretion, stasis and spasm. We are living in the age of the Anthropocene, and human participation in these ancient systems encapsulates the overwhelming\u00a0interplay between our species and all other matter.\u2028<\/span>
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\nFlight Lines<\/span><\/strong>
\nEllie Irons and Dan Phiffer, multi channel HD video, 20 minutes, 2012-13<\/span><\/em>
\nFlight Lines, an ongoing video project, monitors our skies as they become home not just to birds and planes but to satellites and drones. It is an effort to document the skies as they are today,\u00a0with the knowledge that they are rapidly evolving and have different characteristics in disparate locations. \u00a0<\/span>
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\nTRT: approx 45 minutes<\/span>
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\nStill from Handiwork (Environments 1-3)<\/em> (Ellie Irons, 2013) \u00a9 courtesy of the artist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Monday November 11, 7pm Stasis and Spasm Videos by Ellie Irons w\/ Dan Phiffer admission $6 – artists in person Still from Speculative Aboriculture (Ellie Irons, 2011-12) \u00a9 courtesy of the artist Microscope Gallery welcomes Bushwick-based artist Ellie Irons for a screening of recent short videos and the Brooklyn debut of Flight Lines, a collaboration […]<\/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-12187","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12187","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=12187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12191,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12187\/revisions\/12191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}