\nOptipus<\/span><\/strong>
\nThe Watery Owl of Minerva<\/span><\/strong><\/em>
\nat\u00a0Parrish Art Museum<\/strong><\/span>
\n279 Montauk Hwy, Water Mill, NY 11976<\/span><\/p>\n
In this expanded cinema event organized in collaboration with\u00a0and taking place at the Parrish Art Museum, the New York based\u00a0Optipus<\/strong>\u00a0collective and orchestra\u00a0will\u00a0perform\u00a0The Watery Owl of Minerva<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0a new\u00a0live\u00a0multi-projection and sound performance composed by\u00a0Bradley Eros. Celebrating the natural world with a focus on water throughout history, Optipus combines original and found imagery\u00a0including hand-painted slides,\u00a0Super 8mm and 16mm\u00a0films,\u00a0overhead\u00a0and liquid projections with original music and sound relating to and referencing nature. <\/span><\/p>\n Eros states: “It [the performance]\u00a0will contrast and superimpose the urban and human environment with the oceanic, undersea universe, layering the wetlands and waterfowl in loops of liquid light and patterns of natural design. This expanded cinema\u2019s three-part composition begins with coloration and bio-rhythms dominating the visual flow. The middle section, with bodies, animals and insects abundant, the dance of flowering plants, and the swirl of the earth\u2019s\u00a0aqua-forms\u00a0amid the range of landscapes and terrains, is built layer upon layer of activity and element. The third part returns to abstraction, this time via pure light and color, swimming through a template of multiple liquid lenses, for a dynamic finale of shapes and chromatic pulses.”<\/span><\/p>\n As in their most recent performance,\u00a0The Owl Flies at Twilight<\/em>,\u00a0presented in January as part of “Dreamlands: Expanded” – a series organized in collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art – the\u00a0work consists\u00a0of three distinct movements, examining specific relationships between vision and sound, the latter divided into distinct sections featuring strings, percussion, and electronics. <\/span><\/p>\n The performance features\u00a021 artists,\u00a0with 13\u00a0contributing to the visual score extended over large projection screens (Lary 7, Bradley Eros, Alison Nguyen, Lily Jue Sheng, Antonia Kuo, Simon Liu, Joel Schlemowitz, Kenneth Zoran Curwood, Katherine Bauer, Rachael Guma, Genevieve H-K, Gill Arno, Tim Geraghty), and 8 to the musical (Mia Theodoratus, Laura Ortman, Zach Layton, Gabriel Guma, Richard Sylvarnes, Masami Tomihisa, Kevin Shea, Victoria Keddie), using a variety of film\/video formats and instruments that are made or altered by the artists.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Optipus<\/strong>\u00a0is a nomadic group of chameleon artists, cine-scientists in search of a laboratory, shape-shifting according to site-specific requirements. The group embraces the ephemeral cinema of unfixed forms and open composition. Optipus\u2019s members emerge in myriad collaborations, producing works and events, soundtracks and invented instruments, video edits and film loops, and expanded cinema and immersive installations. Optipus has performed\u00a0at Anthology Film Archives, Bobby Redd Project Space (The Church), Microscope Gallery, Millennium Film Workshop, New York University, Participant Inc., The Kitchen, among others.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong> Saturday September 23, 8pm Optipus The Watery Owl of Minerva at\u00a0Parrish Art Museum 279 Montauk Hwy, Water Mill, NY 11976 Optipus performing “The Owl Flies at Twilight”, January 15, 2017 – Image courtesy of the artist and Microscope Gallery In this expanded cinema event organized in collaboration with\u00a0and taking place at the Parrish Art Museum, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20051","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20051"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20058,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20051\/revisions\/20058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Optipus_performance\"](\"http:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Optipus_performance.jpg\")
\nOptipus performing “The Owl Flies at Twilight”, January 15, 2017 – Image courtesy of the artist and Microscope Gallery<\/span>
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