{"id":16093,"date":"2015-06-17T03:42:04","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T07:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/?page_id=16093"},"modified":"2015-06-17T03:44:31","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T07:44:31","slug":"16093-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/?page_id=16093","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Monday June 22, 7:30pm<\/span>
\nA typical murdered beauty<\/span><\/strong>
\nWorks by Sasha Janerus and Stephanie Wuertz<\/span><\/strong>
\nas part of YES<\/em><\/span>
\nadmission $6 – artists in person<\/span><\/em><\/h1>\n

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\n\"Calgon\"
\nStill from “Calgon” (Stephanie Wuertz & Sasha Janerus, 2014) – images courtesy of the artists<\/span>
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\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Microscope welcomes Stephanie Wuertz and Sasha Janerus to the gallery\u00a0both as solo artists and together in collaboration\u00a0for a screening of new works on 16mm and video. The evening features the premiere of two cine-poems that “tarry in the cracks of the urban facade”:\u00a0Janerus’ “4” made from reworked news footage captured by helicopter of the recent police beating of Francis Pusok by the San Bernardino police as he attempted to flee by horse and Wuertz’s 16mm “Untitled (Day\/Night)”, filmed by the artist over the past year on the streets of New York and St. Louis. <\/span><\/p>\n

The pair’s 2014 collaboration “Calgon” reworks footage from an advertisement starring Barbi Benton on the secret to achieving soft skin. And Wuertz’s new music video for Alice Cohen’s “Into The Grey Salons” is three minutes of found 16mm outtakes and discarded optical printing tests “enwrought with golden and silver light”.<\/span><\/p>\n

An interview with the artists by Enrico Camporesi will appear in the forthcoming issue of\u00a0La Furia Umana,\u00a0and their film\u00a0Calgon\u00a0will be screened at the upcoming\u00a0Fronteira\u00a0festival, Brazil. The night is taking place as part of YES, our new program of emerging artists launched this month.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nProgram:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Calgon<\/span><\/strong>
\nStephanie Wuertz and Sasha Janerus<\/span>, video, 2014, 15 minutes<\/em>
\nAn autoerotic odyssey in three or more parts, starring Barbi Benton and a box of soap.<\/span>
\n“Softness could mean both a flowing together and a flowing apart of definitions.”\u00a0– Claes Oldenburg <\/span><\/p>\n

4<\/span><\/strong>
\nSasha Janerus, video, 2015, 21 minutes<\/span><\/em>
\nRaw news copter footage of Francis Pusok\u2019s attempted equestrian escape from and subsequent beating by, San Bernardino\u2019s finest, fragmented and scrambled to release its latent, mythic significance.<\/span><\/p>\n

Untitled (Day\/Night) <\/span><\/strong>
\nStephanie Wuertz, 16mm film, 2015, 25 minutes<\/span><\/em>
\nA collection of observations shot over the year on the streets of New York and St. Louis\u00a0that reflect the city, on the one hand as a space for construction and administration and on the other as a fragmentary and contradictory place for subjectivity.\u00a0“\u2026A mobile human tapestry continually fraying continually being repaired.”(Louis Aragon,\u00a0Paris Peasant)<\/span><\/p>\n

Music video for Alice Cohen’s “Into The Grey Salons”<\/span><\/strong>
\nStephanie Wuertz, 16mm film, 2015, 3 minutes <\/span><\/em>
\nFound footage of unwanted outtakes and optical printing tests.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nStephanie Wuertz is an artist, filmmaker and curator based in Brooklyn, New York. The bulk of her work is carried out in relation to the institutions and concerns of postwar American avant-garde and underground film, and\u00a0is committed to continuing its tradition of formal acuity, criticality and liberatory politics.\u00a0Wuertz has previously shown her work, among others, at Microscope Gallery, Silent Barn, New Museum, Eyebeam, Spectacle Theater, Anthology Film Archives, Millennium Film Workshop, and San Francisco Cinematheque.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sasha Janerus is a Brooklyn-based artist, writer, filmmaker, curator and musician.<\/span><\/p>\n

 
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\n\"4_SJ\"
\nStill from “4” (Sasha Janerus, 2015) – image courtesy of the artist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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