{"id":13013,"date":"2014-03-11T02:33:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T06:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/?page_id=13013"},"modified":"2014-03-11T02:43:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T06:43:07","slug":"13013-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/?page_id=13013","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Monday March 17, 7PM<\/span>
\nSHELF LIVES<\/span><\/strong>
\nVideos by Eileen Maxson<\/span><\/strong>
\nadmission $6 – artist in person<\/span><\/em><\/h1>\n

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\n\u00a9 Courtesy of the artist
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\nWe are very pleased to welcome New York\/Netherlands-based artist Eileen Maxson to Microscope for a special screening program of video works. Maxson, who is strongly influenced by 90s American pop culture and blockbuster movies, presents \u201ca medley of [her own] faulty transmissions, serious ladies, and televised hallucinations” made between 2002 and the present. Heavy-hearted, yet humorous, Maxson performs in many of the videos as characters trapped by media, and frequently sabotaged by technology including, among others, a rejected VHS application to the Real World<\/em>, an online romance scam victim, and a stock footage sunburn victim. Also included in the program are excerpts from a new work-in-progress inspired by the film “Reality Bites”(1994)!<\/span>
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\n\u00a0“(Maxson’s) videos evoke a world of faulty transmissions, moribund formats, and women under the influence of both. Each elegantly crafted tape conjures up a hidden history of media, one that emphasizes its most marginal and ephemeral forms…”\u00a0 – Thomas Beard<\/span>
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\nEileen Maxson (New York, 1980) is an interdisciplinary artist working at the confluence of video, performance and installation. Her works humorously interrogate the borders between imagination and consumer coercion; technology and true personality Her works have been seen at museums and microcinemas including Anthology Film Archives, New York; Art in General, New York; LACMA, Los Angeles; Light Industry, Brooklyn; Museo Tamayo Arte Contempor\u00e1neo, Mexico City; Westf\u00e4lischer Kunstverein, M\u00fcnster; and THE INTERNET.<\/span>
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\nMaxson has been awarded residencies at De Ateliers, Amsterdam; International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), Brooklyn; K\u00fcnstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC). New York. She has received grants from the Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam; Artadia: The Fund for Art & Dialogue, New York; The Dallas Museum of Art; Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Rotterdam. Eileen was also the first recipient of the Arthouse Texas Prize (2005). In 2008, a DVD complication of her videos \u201cLost Broadcasts\u201d was released by Aurora Picture Show and Microcinema International. <\/span>
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\nEileen holds an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (2008) and a BFA from University of Houston (2002). She lives and works in New York and the Netherlands.<\/span>
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\nPROGRAM:<\/span><\/strong>
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\nTAPE 5925: AMY GOODROW<\/span><\/strong>
\n06:22 min, 2002<\/span>
\nMaxson performs an asocial college student’s VHS audition tape to the “Real World”. A secret is revealed and the resulting confession lands on the desk of a jaded MTV employee, who fast-forwards through the details of her dejected story. <\/span>
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\nI KNOW IT WHEN I SEE IT, 2014 <\/span><\/strong>
\n12:00 min (Excerpt, In-Progress), 2014<\/span>
\nRe-enacting a scene in the film “Reality Bites”, young female creatives are challenged to define irony on camera. Their videos tape over an original VHS of the movie.<\/span>
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\nDATE WITH DECEIT<\/span><\/strong>
\n\u00a04:27, 2009<\/span>
\nA victim of online romance scams reveals the details of her deceptions. She admits \u201cit wasn\u2019t exactly love at first type\u201d, but falls hard nonetheless<\/span>
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\nE-LUV<\/span><\/strong>
\n0:45, 2009<\/span>
\nFrom ____ to ______.<\/span>
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\nCOURT TV UNKNOWN<\/span><\/strong>
\n3:17, 2008<\/span>
\nA televised nightmare, recorded LIVE and relived online.<\/span>
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\nTONITE (REPRISE)*<\/span><\/strong>
\n1:56, 2006<\/span>
\nDisappearing in front of the bright lights of a TV News conference, one woman articulates the melancholy and contradictions of the present moment.<\/span>
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\nCINDERELLA+++<\/span><\/strong>
\n2:00, 2002<\/span>
\nCinderella meets 90210, Lady gets a new reputation.<\/span>
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\nDISED 2604: Prof. Catherine Poplar<\/span><\/strong>
\n5:00, 2004<\/span>
\nFrom the start, Catherine Poplar\u2019s lecture entitled\u00a0 \u201cExistentialism\u00a0\u00a0 and Stephen King: The Artist\u2019s Role in Society According to the \u2018Shawshank Redemption\u2019\u201d is plagued with technical disaster. Repeatedly interrupted by a faulty microphone, the professor distressingly and humorously stumbles through the recording.<\/span>
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\nCACHED CURSES<\/span><\/strong>
\n2:20, 2010<\/span>
\nAn ear worm exorcism, psychic bubbling of worry, trash, cash and (so last century) curses.<\/span>
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\nTotal Running Time: about 45 min<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Still from “TAPE 5925: AMY GOODROW” (Eileen Maxson, 2002) \u00a9 Courtesy of the artist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Monday March 17, 7PM SHELF LIVES Videos by Eileen Maxson admission $6 – artist in person \u00a9 Courtesy of the artist We are very pleased to welcome New York\/Netherlands-based artist Eileen Maxson to Microscope for a special screening program of video works. Maxson, who is strongly influenced by 90s American pop culture and blockbuster movies, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13013","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13013","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=13013"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13016,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13013\/revisions\/13016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}