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DREAMLANDS: EXPANDED<\/strong><\/span>
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Saturday November 5, 7:30pm<\/span>
\n KEN JACOBS<\/strong><\/span>
\n “Black Space”<\/strong><\/span>
\n Followed by a presentation and discussion with the artist<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nKen Jacobs, “Black Space”, 1976-2016 – Courtesy of the artist<\/p>\n

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\n Ken Jacobs’ “Black Space”\u00a0is a sensorial exploration of a completely black room, intended as an actualization of the theoretical “black space” needed for optimal film projection.\u00a0The performance begins with audience\u00a0members sitting on chairs in a completely dark, quiet room, which is gradually and personally revealed through minimal exposure to and accumulation of acoustic and visual elements such\u00a0as the breathing of others, rolling coins, and the images induced and retained in the eye from flashes of bright light. “Black Space”\u00a0was conceived and first performed in the mid-70s and has only previously been presented twice in the past 40 years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“Complete darkness and we only acknowledge sensation, what we feel and hear and see, and not what we know…flashes of light leave 3D images lingering on our retinas as they join the other\u00a0sensations, as does my disembodied guiding voice.”<\/em>\u00a0– Ken Jacobs, 2016<\/span>
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Followed by a special presentation \u201cMy Enduring Fling with Black Space\u201d including the projection of Jacobs’ “JACK SMITH TUMBLING” (from “Two Wrenching Departures”), an extract from one of his Nervous Magic Lantern performances, and the premiere of “POPEYE SEES 3D”.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nKen Jacobs\u00a0was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1933. He studied painting with Hans Hofmann in the mid-fifties and also began making films at that time. Jacobs created and directed The Millennium Film Workshop, N.Y.C. in 1966; started the Department of Cinema at S.U.N.Y. at Binghamton in 1969; and served as Professor of Cinema (1974-2000), Distinguished Professor of Cinema (2000) and Distinguished Prof. of Cinema Emeritus from 2002 to present. Jacobs\u2019 films and videos have shown extensively in the US and abroad including recently at The Whitney Museum, NY; Museum of Moving Image, Queens, NY; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Institute Of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia; Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; Berlin Film Festival, Berlin, Germany; Cinemath\u00e8que Francaise, Paris, France among many others. Jacobs has received numerous awards and grants including a J.S. Guggenheim Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation Special Grant, Creative Capital Grant,\u00a0USA Fellows,\u00a0among others. “Reichstag 9\/11”, a recent work, will be shown in this year\u2019s Viennale together with his first film,\u00a0\u201cOrchard Street\u201d, 1955. His film \u201cTom, Tom, The Piper\u2019s Son\u201d was named to the National Film Registry, in 2007. Jacobs lives and works in New York City.<\/span><\/p>\n

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General admission $15 <\/span>
\nStudents & Members $10<\/span><\/p>\n

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About “Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

This fall, the Whitney Museum of American Art presents Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905\u20132016, a landmark exhibition that focuses on the ways in which technology has created new forms of immersive experience using the moving image. Artists have dismantled and reassembled the conventions of cinema\u2014screen, projection, darkness\u2014to create new readings of space, optical form, and time. The exhibition will fill the Museum\u2019s 18,000-square-foot Neil Bluhm Family Galleries on the fifth floor, as well as the adjacent Kaufman Gallery, and will include a substantial film program in the Susan and John Hess Family Theater, and a series of expanded cinema events organized by Microscope Gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn, in collaboration with the Whitney. Organized by Chrissie Iles, the Whitney’s Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nKen Jacobs, still from “POPEYE SEES 3D”, 2016, single-channel video, 20 minutes – Courtesy of the artist<\/p>\n

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\nLead Underwriting Support Provided by the Robert D. Bielecki Foundation.<\/span>
\nGenerous Support provided by J.J. Kasper, Paul Jost, and Natasha Reatig.<\/span><\/p>\n

This presentation is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council of the Arts’ Electronic Media & Film Presentation Funds grant program, administered by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Microscope Gallery Event Series is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).<\/span><\/p>\n

Additional Support provided by Knockdown Center and Negativland. <\/span><\/p>\n

Sponsored by Colorlab and The Bodega. Official Media Partner: The Brooklyn Rail.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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