{"id":20676,"date":"2018-03-28T00:24:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T04:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/?page_id=20676"},"modified":"2018-04-03T13:59:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T17:59:00","slug":"20676-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/?page_id=20676","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sunday April 1, 7pm<\/span><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Provocation: the egg of fools in the cave of rules<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">A reading (&amp; more) organized by Bradley Eros<br \/>\nAudience is also invited to participate!<\/span><\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20677\" src=\"http:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Think-ephemeral.jpg\" alt=\"Think ephemeral!\" width=\"504\" height=\"629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Think-ephemeral.jpg 504w, https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Think-ephemeral-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Image courtesy of Bradley Eros<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Microscope is very pleased to present on Sunday April 1st &#8211; the first time Easter and April Fool\u2019s have converged since 1956 &#8211; \u201cProvocation: the egg of fools in the cave of rules\u201d, a night of readings by artists, poets, writers, and others organized by Bradley Eros of short texts on themes of ephemerality, immateriality, dematerialization,  extinction, transformation or the social economy and ecology of art, gifts &#038; exchange value, Arte Povera, challenges to the art world system,etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Participants include: Nicole Wallace, Cat Tyc, Lily Jue Sheng, Rachelle Rahme, Jim Supanick, Liv Soussan, Nicholas Vargelis, Muyassar Kurdi, Rachael Guma, Scott Kiernan, Steve Dalachinsky, Yuko Otomo, Josh Anderson, Bradley Eros, and others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This announcement is also an open invite for others to bring short texts &#8211; quotes, single page, sentences, poems, or short prose, original or recited, related to or inspired by the subjects above. Arrangements can be made for those who prefer to have someone else read their texts. If you plan to join in  please let us know in advance if possible at events@microscopegallery.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The night also features a surprise performance and projection \u201cCycle of Transformation\u201d by Bradley Eros, who organized the event in connection with his current solo exhibition \u201cAll that is solid melts into eros\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThe show [All that is solid\u00a0melts into eros] is an attempt to discover the simplest means possible to examine dematerialization and transient states of matter. The process poses an open question or inquiry into the social economy and ecology of art, through play, ritual or exchange\u201d. \u2013 BE<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">More info about Eros&#8217; current exhibition \u201cAll that is solid melts into eros\u201d\u00a0<strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/?page_id=20641\"><u>HERE<\/u><\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Suggested donation $6<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">_<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Bradley Eros\u00a0is an artist working in myriad mediums including film &amp; video, collage, performance, expanded cinema, and installation. Eros\u00a0has been a catalyst of the New York film community since the 1980s and his\u00a0works have exhibited and screened extensively in the US and abroad including at the Whitney Museum of American Art (in \u201cDreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art: 1905-2016\u201d, \u201cThe Whitney Biennial 2004\u201d, and \u201cThe American Century: Art &amp; Culture 1900-2000\u201d) as well as at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), MoMA PS1, New Museum, The Kitchen, Participant Inc., Pioneer Works, Performa09, Exit Art, Anthology Film Archives, Parrish Art Museum (Water Mill, NY), The Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh, PA), Camden Arts Center (London), Arsenal (Berlin), and The New York, London and Rotterdam Film Festivals. His work has been written about in\u00a0ArtFCity,\u00a0Artforum,\u00a0Hyperallergic,\u00a0The Brooklyn Rail,\u00a0The\u00a0Wall Street Journal,\u00a0and the\u00a0Village Voice, among many others.\u00a0Collaborations include the\u00a0Alchemical Theater, the band\u00a0Circle X,\u00a0Voom HD Lab, and the expanded cinema groups\u00a0kinoSonik,\u00a0Arcane Project\u00a0and currently with\u00a0Optipus. Grants and Awards include: Acker Award, NYFA Fellowship, Experimental Television Center (ETC), and Issue Project Room\u2019s artist in residence, among others. His work is in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art.\u00a0Eros currently lives and works in Queens, New York.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><br \/>\n_<br \/>\n<em>Microscope Gallery Event Series 2018 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).<\/em><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday April 1, 7pm Provocation: the egg of fools in the cave of rules A reading (&amp; more) organized by Bradley Eros Audience is also invited to participate! Image courtesy of Bradley Eros Microscope is very pleased to present on Sunday April 1st &#8211; the first time Easter and April Fool\u2019s have converged since 1956 [&hellip;]<\/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-20676","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20676","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=20676"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20718,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20676\/revisions\/20718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}