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DREAMLANDS: EXPANDED<\/strong><\/span>
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Friday November 18, 7:30pm<\/span>
\n TAKAHIKO IIMURA: “Circle and Square”<\/strong><\/span>
\n JOEL SCHLEMOWITZ: “Kannon, The Goddess of Mercy”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nFrom: Takahiko Iimura, “Circle and Square”, 1981 – Courtesy of the artist<\/p>\n

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\nThe 1981 performance\u00a0“Circle and Square”\u00a0by Takahiko Iimura,\u00a0New York-based Japanese film and video pioneer, evolved from the artist’s\u00a0interest in exposing the apparatus of projection and the materiality of\u00a0image and light begun in the mid-60s. The work\u00a0commences\u00a0with the projection of a\u00a0long loop of black 16mm film leader suspended from the ceiling.\u00a0The\u00a0artist\u00a0punches\u00a0a hole on the film’s surface and as it loops through the projector’s gate, a single white circle of light pierces the darkness.\u00a0With each subsequent punch the film builds before the viewer\u2019s eyes into a cascade of white circles before reaching its abrupt and revelatory conclusion.
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\nJoel Schlemowitz\u2019s new performance “Kannon, Goddess of Mercy”\u00a0unifies various techniques, instruments, and arcane interests of the artist\u2019s twenty-year practice into a single work. Schlemowitz generates anaglyph 3D imagery in real time through the superimposition of images from two overhead projectors, while performing a 78rpm soundtrack on the Victrola. The imagery is culled from ancient Chinese joss paper, tarots, and star charts portraying the Goddess Kannon as she enters the red chamber to observe the different phases of the moon.
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General admission $15 <\/span>
\nStudents & Members $10<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nTakahiko Iimura, born in Tokyo in 1937, is a pioneering artist\u00a0known for his work with\u00a0\u00a0film, video, installation, performance,\u00a0and digital technologies spanning more than 50 years. Iimura\u00a0first\u00a0began working with film in 1960\u00a0and was instrumental in the burgeoning Japanese experimental and independent film scene. Iimura moved to the US on a Fellowship from Harvard University in 1966 and soon immersed himself in the mid-60s New York\u00a0experimental film and art community. Early videos were included in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art of New York and PS1 (1975), and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, France (1977), while other performance based works and interactive installations were featured in the 1979 two-person exhibition “New Video” (with Shigeko Kubota) at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Among the institutions that have exhibited Iimura’s works are Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY;\u00a0Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York, NY;\u00a0Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY;\u00a0Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY;\u00a0Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; The Kitchen, New York, NY;\u00a0Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Pacific Film Archive, Berkley, CA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MI; Carnegie Art Museum, Pittsburgh, PA; Cin\u00e9math\u00e8que Fran\u00e7aise, Paris, France; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Jeu de Paume, Paris, France; Tate Modern, London, UK; Serpentine Galleries, London, UK; among others. Iimura’s work is in the Collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy;\u00a0 Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; among others. Takahiko Iimura currently lives and works in New York.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Joel Schlemowitz\u00a0is a Brooklyn based artist working with multiple mediums including celluloid film, installation and collage. Schlemowitz’s work has been exhibited at Microscope Gallery, Courthouse Gallery at Anthology Film Archives, NY; KUMUKUMU Gallery, NY;\u00a0Bound & Unbound Gallery, NY;\u00a0Museum of Contemporary Cinema, Madrid; Ukrainian Institute of America, NY; and The Images Festival, Toronto, Canada, among others. His films are widely screened at cinemas, festivals, and institutions including at The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum, Harvard Film Archives, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), the New York Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, among others. Schlemowitz has received grants from the Jerome Foundation and New York State Council on the Arts.\u00a0<\/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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\nFrom: Joel Schlemowitz, “Kannon, The Goddess of Mercy”, 2016 – Courtesy of the artist
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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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