{"id":17080,"date":"2015-11-08T20:27:11","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T01:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/?page_id=17080"},"modified":"2015-11-08T20:30:47","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T01:30:47","slug":"17080-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/?page_id=17080","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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Monday November 16, 7:30pm<\/span>
\nFilm, Paper, Sound<\/em><\/span><\/strong>
\nPerformance works by Sarah Halpern<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/h1>\n

\"Sarah<\/p>\n

From “Watch” (Sarah Halpern, 2015, paper on 35mm film) – image courtesy of the artist<\/span><\/p>\n

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Microscope is very pleased to present an evening of moving image and sound performance works by Sarah Halpern in connection with her current solo exhibit “The Changing Room<\/a>“. <\/span><\/p>\n

The artist’s 35mm films strip and vocal performance pieces in “Film, Paper, Sound” reflect themes of transformation, dualism, and the differences in individual perception and relate to the works on view at the gallery. In the new 35mm film strip projection collage “Watch” Halpern correlates time to magic tricks\u00a0combining images from clippings about Houdini’s graphic notes explaining how certain tricks are performed, recent pocket watch collector’s catalogues, and fragments of texts from books about early cinema technology. The second piece\u00a0“Strip” is a\u00a0projection through a\u00a0complete molted snake skin, which the artist found in a garden, stretched across a 35mm film strip. <\/span><\/p>\n

The night concludes with a vocal performance “Nine Questions” in which the artist integrates the folksong “The Devil’s Nine Questions”, narrating how the Devil tries to ensnare a young woman through a series of riddles, with selected passages of text about demonic possession, psychological projection, spell binding and spell breaking.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nSARAH HALPERN\u00a0works with paper, 16mm film, 35mm slides, sound and performance. Her work often finds sources in classic cinema imagery in the form of books or celluloid film, and has been previously shown at The Museum of Moving Image, The Kitchen, Participant Inc, Anthology Film Archives, the New York Film Festival, and Microscope Gallery, among others. She holds a B.A. in Film and Electronic Arts from Bard College, and was a recipient of the 2014 MacDowell Colony Fellowship. Halpern lives and works in Ridgewood, Queens, NY.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n$7 – general admission<\/span><\/em>
\n$5 – students with valid ID<\/span><\/em>
\nFree for Members!<\/span><\/em>
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\nPROGRAM:<\/span><\/strong>
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\nWatch<\/span><\/strong>
\n35mm film strip, 2015, approx. 15 minutes<\/span><\/em>
\nOn the relationship between magic tricks, the mechanics of motion pictures and the viewers sense of time.<\/span>
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\nStrip<\/strong> <\/span>
\n35mm film strip, 2014, approx. 10 minutes<\/span><\/em>
\nAn entire discarded snake skin, stretched, flattened and affixed to 35mm clear leader. <\/span>
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\nNine Questions<\/span><\/strong>
\nVocal sound performance, approx 30 minutes<\/span><\/em>
\nLive singing, pre-recorded singing, and reading of selected texts.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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