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Saturday November 15, 7:30pm<\/span>
\nElegant Interiors<\/strong><\/span>
\nVideos & live music by Alice Cohen<\/strong><\/span>
\nadmission $6 – artist in person<\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n

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Still from “Elegant Interiors” (Alice Cohen, 2014) \u00a9<\/span> 2014 courtesy of the artist<\/span>
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\nMicroscope Gallery is pleased to present an evening of new and recent stop motion animations and live music performance by Brooklyn-based artist and musician Alice Cohen. Appropriating discarded images found in old books and magazines, Cohen\u2019s animations create a mystical and surreal internal landscape exploring the history of glamour and femininity. <\/span>
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\nHer works evolved from a background in the new wave Philadelphia music scene including as the lead singer of Fun City, The Vels, and Die Monster Die \u2014 making collage show flyers and performing in the early days of MTV culture. The evening\u2019s presentation will feature a mix of selected music videos and longer video works by the artist as well as a collaborative, improvised musical performance with projections.<\/span>
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\nAlice Cohen is a musician and visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Active in the music world since the late 70s, she has released records in a wide array of contexts. Her visual work is largely based on collage and found images. In 2007 she began developing her collages into moving animations, and has since made dozens of music videos in addition to her own video work that has been shown in a variety of venues from galleries, screenings, and museums to nightclub dance parties.<\/span>
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\nProgram<\/strong>:<\/span>
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\nLandrunner<\/strong> (2009, 3 min) <\/span>
\nFirst music video ever made, for the hypnagogic pop group Ducktails, using cutup and reconfigured architectural elements and shapes. The music blog Stereogum described it as \u201cpsychedout cutnpaste Max Ernstatthebeach imagery\u201d.<\/span>
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\nBroken Heartscape<\/strong> (2010, 2.5 min) <\/span>
\nA music video which was never released, for the Berlinbased solo musician known as Vomit Heat. Vintage planes, and 1960s imagery from Rio de Janeiro\u2019s Carnival, were inspired by the sambaesque drumbeat in the song.<\/span>
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\nWhite Woman<\/strong> (2010, 5 min) <\/span>
\nEarly music video for the band Broken Deer a solo musician and mystic living in the Yukon. Collage cutouts of nature, frontier women, and objects such as antlers and feathers to capture an imagined vision of wilderness and desolation.<\/span>
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\nMirror Moves for Private Eyes<\/strong> (2010, 14 min) <\/span>
\nOriginally shown as the centerpiece of a solo art show at the now defunct Live With Animals gallery in Williamsburg. An exploration of glamour and \u201cbeauty magic\u201d using the idea of the mirror as a metaphysical portal.<\/span>
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\nPrivate Booths for Sallow Suits<\/strong> (2012, 3 min) <\/span>
\nMusic video for the experimental band Human Resources. Typewriters, old computers, and empty conference rooms figure in this short piece playing with the idea of escape within the confines of the cubicle and office workplace.<\/span>
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\nFor Claire<\/strong> (excerpt) (2012, 5 min) <\/span>
\nExcerpt from a longer piece, originally shown as a live projection for Grimes (aka Claire Boucher) at the New Museum. This edit has a new electronic sound score. A visual meditation within a personal dreamscape, simultaneously antique and futuristic\u037e an internal exploration of the sacred feminine discovered through layers of swirling paint, and animated found imagery.<\/span>
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\nPerfumes of Venus<\/strong> (2014, 5 min) <\/span>
\nInspired by the mystery of gem essences, a further exploration of celestial and feminine atmospheres, the floral and fairy realms, and the delicacy of perfumes and crystals…an attempt to make ethereal worlds visible through stop motion, collage and paint.<\/span>
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\nElegant Interiors<\/strong> (2014, 14 min) <\/span>
\nA brand new piece connecting ideas of architecture and the body…rooms envisioned within the mind, physical and imaginary spaces, dream spaces. Memory banks and rooms as thought repositories. Tonight\u2019s show will have a special live improvised soundtrack featuring Alice Cohen, Adrian Knight and Genevieve Kammel Morris.<\/span>
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\nMicroscope Gallery gratefully acknowledges the Robert D. Bielecki Foundation as the Official Sponsor of our Event Series.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday November 15, 7:30pm Elegant Interiors Videos & live music by Alice Cohen admission $6 – artist in person Still from “Elegant Interiors” (Alice Cohen, 2014) \u00a9 2014 courtesy of the artist \u00a0 Microscope Gallery is pleased to present an evening of new and recent stop motion animations and live music performance by Brooklyn-based artist […]<\/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-14764","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14764","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=14764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14766,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14764\/revisions\/14766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}