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Monday May 19, 7pm<\/span>
\nAfternoon Lunatic<\/span><\/strong>
\nVideos by Aasa Ersmark<\/span><\/strong>
\nadmission $6 \u2013 artist in person<\/span><\/em><\/h1>\n

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\nStill from Lunatic <\/em>(Aasa Ersmark, 2012) \u00a9 courtesy of the artist<\/span>
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\nMicroscope is very pleased to welcome Swedish artist Aasa Ersmark to New York to present a screening program of short video and animation works. Ersmark, whose practice includes both video and sculpture, engages with hand-made objects, animated photographs, as well as the human body. Objects and processes can be seen as moving sculptures in works that are \u201cboth static and moving, sculptural and animated, physical and ephemeral.\u201d And, familiar imagery is often transformed into something other than what is expected or known.<\/span>
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\nEsmark’s 2012 Lunatic<\/em> is a photographic animation of multiple moons, waxing and waning, pulsating together as a community – frenetic, but in unison, unsettling our understanding of our nearest celestial neighbor and cleverly working within etymological boundaries of the word “lunacy”. In works such as Volcano<\/em> (2008) the human body \u2013 specifically a woman\u2019s nipple leaking milk – appears as newly constructed landscape. Esmark’s most recent work, Dream Triptych<\/em> (2014) derives from the artist\u2019s actual early childhood nightmares.\u00a0The works in the program range from 20 seconds to 5 minutes and were made between 2008 and 2014.<\/span>
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\nAasa Ersmark (1981) is an artist and filmmaker based in Stockholm, Sweden. Working across sculpture and video installation, her work has been exhibited at The Modern Museum in Stockholm, Tribeca Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, Oberhausen Film Festival, F\u00e4rgfabriken in Stockholm, and the Gothenburg Art Museum among many others.\u00a0 Ersmark received her MFA from The Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm and grants from The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Studio Grant, City of Stockholm, and The Royal Institute of Art among others.<\/span>
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\nThe evening is made possible with the support of The Swedish Arts Grants Committee.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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\nThe Archer<\/span><\/strong>
\n2009, 00.20 min<\/span>
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\nAfternoon Dragon<\/span><\/strong>
\n2014, 01.30 min<\/span>
\nA momentary lapse in reality offers a new symbolic possibility in the image.<\/span>
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\nVolcano<\/span><\/strong>
\n2008, 03.10 min<\/span>
\n\u201c\u2026we see milk seeping from a woman\u00b4s breast, a poetic setting of the body and its uncertain topography which resembles here a smoking volcano.” \u2013 Mats Stjernstedt, Director of Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo<\/span>
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\nSunset<\/span><\/strong>
\n2009, 02.10 min<\/span>
\nLandscape as body body as landscape.<\/span>
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\nMetal Bells in the afternoon<\/span><\/strong>
\n2010, 03.54 min<\/span>
\nA tactile study of classical sculptures in Stockholm opens up a view of a hidden process where symbols are unstable and undefined.<\/span>
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\nMirror<\/span><\/strong>
\n2010, 04.25 min<\/span>
\nAn apparatus of looking is slowly physically transformed over time rendering it powerless.<\/span>
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\nAfternoon Lunatic<\/span><\/strong>
\n2011, 02.35 min<\/span>
\nIn deep Stockholm winter, the boundaries between day and night become confused leading to an offset of the body\u2019s natural rhythms and opening up a space for the dream life to creep into reality.<\/span>
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\nLunatic<\/span><\/strong>
\n2012, 05.30 min<\/span>
\nA photographic animation reflecting the fragmentary experience of existing simultaneously within several points in time. Different phases of the moon flicker in front of our eyes, as the haunting pulsation of music by Simon Mullan and Theodore Trottner builds to a frenetic hysteria as the moon waxes and wanes.<\/span>
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\nSaturn<\/span><\/strong>
\n2011, 04.00 min<\/span>
\nThe planet Saturn is named after the god Saturn, who ruled over time, death and melancholy. The video is a sculptural and cinematic ritual where the symbology of saturn is deconstructed from myth to abstraction. The soundtrack is composed of radiotelescope recordings of the amplified sounds of Saturn.<\/span>
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\nDream Triptych<\/strong> (work in progress)<\/span>
\n2014, 01.25 min<\/span>
\nThe first of many nightmares\/hallucinations Ersmark experienced as a child and teenager.<\/span>
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\nStill from Without Title <\/em>(Aasa Ersmark, 2014) \u00a9 courtesy of the artist<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Monday May 19, 7pm Afternoon Lunatic Videos by Aasa Ersmark admission $6 \u2013 artist in person Still from Lunatic (Aasa Ersmark, 2012) \u00a9 courtesy of the artist Microscope is very pleased to welcome Swedish artist Aasa Ersmark to New York to present a screening program of short video and animation works. Ersmark, whose practice includes […]<\/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-13492","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13492","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=13492"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13505,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13492\/revisions\/13505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}