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Monday November 13, 7:30pm\u2028<\/span>
\nYES: Alison Nguyen \/ Monica Savir\u00f3n<\/strong><\/span>
\n\u2028artists in person<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nStill from \u201cAnswer Print\u201d by Monica Savir\u00f3n (2016) \u2013 Image courtesy of the artist<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Microscope presents the first 2017-18 edition of our emerging\u00a0artist\u00a0series\u00a0YES\u00a0with\u00a0a screening of film and video works by Alison Nguyen and Monica Savir\u00f3n. Both Brooklyn-based\u00a0artists\u2019 bodies of works include 16mm films and videos\u00a0that are situated within the tradition\u00a0of\u00a0\u201cfound footage\u201d or \u201cappropriation”, terms\u00a0that fall short of conveying the\u00a0painstaking processes of \u201cseeking\u201d\u00a0each of them undertakes in\u00a0selecting their imagery from sources including\u00a0vast archives of daily newspapers, 16mm film vaults, and the web.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nguyen, in her most recent video “Dessert-Disaster”, draws attention to visual trends and similarities between imagery used in the advertising of dessert products and that used in the documentation of natural and artificial disasters. Through the juxtaposition of the two in split screen, she reveals the TV and cinematic inspirations for dizzying movements of chocolate and other visually striking manipulations of otherwise inert candy bars. Similarly, in “you can’t plan a perfect day sometimes it just happens”, Nguyen culls brief sequences of camera lens flare from American\u00a0commercials to reflect upon their function of “visual shorthands for authenticity and spirituality used in white-dominated mass media”. Earlier works by the artist in the program – shot on Super 8mm and 16mm film – are abstractions and more formal investigations of light and color.<\/span><\/p>\n

Savir\u00f3n’s works in the program – with the exception of her first piece “To Begin With” (2012) – mostly draw from existing still photograph that is repurposed and given new\u00a0life\u00a0within the filmstrip. For instance, in “Broken Tongue\u201d, which \u201cpays homage to the diaspora of the different waves\u00a0of migration” to the US,\u00a0the artist\u00a0rephotographed images printed in the New Year\u2019s Days issues of\u00a0The New York Times,\u00a0from its first publication in 1851 until 2013.\u00a0Her latest work \u201cAnswer Print\u201d – a term used to describe a print struck to preview the image and sound of a movie before final printing – is a perpetually decaying 16mm film consisting of deteriorated copies of 9 separate movies as well as anonymous film rushes and camera tests. With its fading red hues and accumulation of other imperfections, the work despite its title is unable to \u201canswer\u201d the question of how it will look or sound at any of its future projections.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nguyen and Savir\u00f3n will be in attendance and available for Q&A following the screening.<\/span><\/p>\n

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General admission $8<\/em><\/span>
\nMembers & Students $6<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nAlison Nguyen is a New York-based artist working in film, video, photography, and installation. She uses these forms to raise questions about the circulation of images and the cultural surrounding. Often integrating re-appropriated footage from mass media, Nguyen investigates systems of control found within the visual codes of this material. Alison Nguyen (b. 1986) graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in Literary Arts. Selected screenings and exhibitions include: The Whitney Museum and The Parrish Museum (in collaboration with expanded cinema group, Optipus), Palace Film Festival, The Manhattan Independent Film Festival, Satellite Miami, and BOSI Contemporary. She has received awards and residencies from NYSCA, Signal Culture, Vermont Studio Center, Flux Factory,\u00a0and Brown University.<\/span><\/p>\n

M\u00f3nica Savir\u00f3n is an independent curator, writer, and experimental filmmaker. Originally from Madrid and currently based in New York, her work explores the cinematic possibilities of sound and avant-garde poetics.\u00a0Her film\u00a0Answer Print<\/em>\u00a0(2016) had its World Premiere at the 54th New York Film Festival. This work, made with\u00a0deteriorating color celluloid, is meant to disappear over time.\u00a0Broken Tongue<\/em>\u00a0(2013) is a tribute to conceptual poet and performer Tracie Morris. Winner of the Best Film award at FRONTEIRA Film Festival in Brazil, it has been shown at more than fifty major festivals and art venues around the world. Her previous video,\u00a0To Begin With<\/em>\u00a0(2012), had its World Premiere at Experiments in Cinema Festival. As a curator, she has organized shows at the Museum of the Moving Image, Microscope Gallery, UnionDocs, and Anthology Film Archives. Her essays about avant-garde and artists’ cinema have been published internationally.\u00a0For ten years, she also directed a weekly radio show on documentary and experimental films while producing the television show\u00a0Documenta2.\u00a0Savir\u00f3n has collaborated with preservationist and artist Bill Brand; and has worked on archiving and preserving\u00a0the legacy of American avant-garde filmmaker and cellist Beryl Sokoloff. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\nStill from “Dessert-Disaster” by Alison Nguyen (2017) – Image courtesy of the artist<\/span><\/em>
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\nWhite on White<\/strong>
\nby Alison Nguyen, 16mm film, b&w, sound, 2016, 2 minutes 49 seconds
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\nSpectrum<\/strong>
\nby Alison Nguyen, Super 8mm to HD video, color, sound, 2017, 3 minutes 35 seconds
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\nSignal<\/strong>
\nby Alison Nguyen and Hemant Sreekumar, video, b&w, sound, 2017, 9 minutes 15 seconds
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\nyou can’t plan a perfect day sometimes it just happens<\/strong>
\nby Alison Nguyen, HD video, color, sound, 2017, 8 minutes 24 seconds
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\nDessert-Disaster<\/strong>
\nby Alison Nguyen, HD video, color, sound, 2017, 2 minutes
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\nTo Begin With<\/strong>
\nby M\u00f3nica Savir\u00f3n, DV to HD video, color, sound, 2012, 8 minutes
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\nBroken Tongue<\/strong>
\nby M\u00f3nica Savir\u00f3n, 16mm film to HD video, color, sound, 2013, 3 minutes
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\nWedding Song<\/strong>
\nby M\u00f3nica Savir\u00f3n, 16mm film to HD video, color, sound, 2016, 2 minutes
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\nAnswer Print<\/strong>
\nby M\u00f3nica Savir\u00f3n, 16mm film, color, sound, 2016, 5 minutes
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\nWith the underwriting support of the Robert D. Bielecki Foundation<\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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