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Monday January 19,\u00a08:30pm<\/span>
\nDirty Looks NYC Presents: 3 works \/\/ 4 years<\/span><\/strong>
\nsuggested donation $8<\/span><\/em><\/h1>\n

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\nFrom “To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of Their Desperation<\/em>” (Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, 2013) \/ c<\/span>ourtesy of the artists<\/span>
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We are very happy to welcome to the gallery New York-based roaming screening series Dirty Looks NYC<\/em> on the occasion of their 4th anniversary to present a selection of three recent video works by artists Aykan Safo\u011flu, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, and My Barbarian.<\/span><\/p>\n

Additional information via Dirty Looks<\/em>:<\/span>
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\nDL celebrates 4-years of programming with an exciting program of work made within the past year\u00a0that examines contemporary queer relationships with gay icons ranging from Marilyn Monroe to Valerie Solanas, James Baldwin, Pedro Zamora and Jos\u00e9 Esteban Mu\u00f1oz. Our 4-year celebration will mark the launch of DL: Los Angeles<\/em>, spearheaded by Clara L\u00f3pez Men\u00e9ndez and Bradford Nordeen.<\/span><\/p>\n

Off-White Tulips\u00a0(Kirik Beyaz Laleler)<\/em> is a tribute to the US-American writer James Baldwin, a video essay comprised of still photographs that illustrate or confound a narration that blends Baldwin\u2019s self-imposed exile to Turkey with the artist\u2019s own biographical details and an exploration of his native country. <\/span><\/p>\n

To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of Their Desperation<\/em>\u00a0takes as a starting point the score of the same title composed by the avant-garde composer Pauline Oliveros in 1970. Documenting a performance of the work by Rachel Aggs, Peaches, Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Catriona Shaw, Verity Susman, and William Wheeler, the composition, which was influenced by Valerie Solanas\u2019s radical feminist \u201cSCUM Manifesto,\u201d affords the musicians an equal role, rejecting the hierarchical structures of traditional music..<\/span><\/p>\n

My Barbarian’s\u00a0Counterpublicity<\/em>\u00a0is a staged video performance based on an essay about Pedro Zamora, AIDS activist and star of the\u00a0Real World: San Francisco, written by Jos\u00e9 Esteban Mu\u00f1oz in his book, Disidentifications<\/em>. The three members of My Barbarian re-perform scenes from The Real World<\/em> in an alienated style, resisting the affect of “reality tv” even as they interrogate its politics, contrasting these scenes with the embodied performance of 90s-inspired music videos, with lyrics adapted from Mu\u00f1oz’s theory of Queer counterpublic spheres that operate against the dominance of racism and homophobia.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Program:<\/span><\/strong>
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\nAykan Safo\u011flu, Off-white Tulips<\/em>, 2013, HD video, 24 minutes<\/span><\/p>\n

Pauline Boudry + Renate Lorenz,\u00a0To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of Their Desperation<\/em>, 2013, Super-16mm\/HD film, 18 minutes<\/span><\/p>\n

My Barbarian, Counterpublicity<\/em>, 2014, HD video, 11:38 minutes<\/span><\/p>\n

(trt: approx 54 minutes)<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nAykan Safo\u011flu<\/strong> lives and works in Berlin. Born in Istanbul, he holds a BA in Film from Istanbul Bilgi University, an MA in \u201cArt in Context\u201d from the University of the Arts Berlin and an MFA in Photography from Bard College. Since 2004 he has made several short films, published articles and reviews in various magazines and participated & curated several group shows. He was a member of the curatorial collective \u201c\u011f\u201d(soft g) and won the Grand Prize of the City Oberhausen at the 59th International Oberhausen Short Film Festival.<\/span><\/p>\n

In their primarily filmic works, Pauline Boudry \/ Renate Lorenz<\/strong> deal with the emergence of photography and film against the backdrop of colonial history and the invention of body norms. Historical photographs, texts or songs become the starting point for their search for alternative (sexual) practices and ways of living, conjoining with subversive approaches from pop, glamour, and camp. Boudry\/Lorenz\u2019s films show performances for the camera, which are only indirectly encountered by the audience through the film projection. At the same time, projected films or images often form the stage background for these filmed performances, so that the different levels overlap. The filmic illusion is broken again and again in the works by Boudry\/Lorenz, as the performers look or speak directly into the camera and the director or the camera itself comes into the picture. <\/span><\/p>\n

My Barbarian<\/strong> is a collective made up of\u00a0Malik Gaines,\u00a0Jade Gordon, and\u00a0Alexandro Segade. The group’s performance and video works have been shown at MoMA , The Kitchen, New Museum, Whitney Museum, Studio Museum in Harlem (New York); LACMA, MOCA, REDCAT (Los Angeles); SFMOMA (San Francisco); Hirshhorn Museum (Washington DC); ICA (Philadelphia); De Appel (Amsterdam); El Matadero (Madrid); Peres Projects (Berlin); Townhouse Gallery (Cairo), and others. The group has had solo exhibitions at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, 2013; Yaffo 23, Jerusalem, 2013; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2010; Museo El Eco, Mexico City, 2010; and Participant Inc., New York, 2009. My Barbarian has been included in numerous group exhibitions including the 2014 Whitney Biennial. <\/span><\/p>\n

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About\u00a0Dirty Looks NYC:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

A salon of influences,\u00a0DIRTY\u00a0LOOKS NYC\u00a0is a New York-based roaming screening series, an open platform for inquiry,\u00a0discussion and debate.\u00a0Designed to trace contemporary queer aesthetics through\u00a0historical works,\u00a0Dirty Looks\u00a0NYC<\/em> presents quintessential GLBT film and video,\u00a0alongside up-and-coming artists and\u00a0filmmakers.\u00a0Dirty Looks<\/em>\u00a0exhibits a\u00a0lineage of queer tactics and visual styles for younger artists,\u00a0casual viewers\u00a0and seasoned avant-garde filmgoers, alike.<\/span><\/p>\n

Over the course of four years, Dirty Looks NYC<\/em> has staged local\u00a0screening initiatives at The Museum of Modern Art, The Kitchen, Participant\u00a0Inc,\u00a0White Columns, Artists Space and Judson Memorial Church, with a Roadshow\u00a0touring the West Coast yearly. Dirty Looks: On Location<\/em>, a\u00a0month of queer\u00a0interventions in New York City spaces, was founded in 2012, installing moving\u00a0image work in significant queer spaces \u2013 both\u00a0contemporary and shuttered \u2013\u00a0throughout the city. A biennial initiative,\u00a0On\u00a0Location<\/em>\u00a0will return in July 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nStill from “Counterpublicity” <\/em>(My Barbarian, 2014) \/ courtesy of the artists<\/span>
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\nMicroscope Gallery gratefully acknowledges the Robert D. Bielecki Foundation as the Official Sponsor of our Event Series.<\/emZ\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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