\nKatherine Bauer<\/span><\/strong>
\nCinematic Death Moon Return:<\/span><\/strong><\/em>
\nImpact Phase Performance<\/span><\/strong><\/em>
\nLive performance<\/span>
\nRSVP recommended to\u00a0rsvp@microscopegallery.com<\/u><\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n
Microscope is pleased to present\u00a0Impact Phase,\u00a0a performance by Katherine Bauer in connection with her current solo exhibition at the gallery\u00a0Cinematic Death Moon Return:\u00a0Impact Phase<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n For the performance Bauer activates the title piece of the exhibition – an installation work in which equipment and materials from an abandoned film theater including a 35mm projector, film plate, large silver screen, 35mm films and others are surrounded by dozens of night blooming plants and vines. The artist transforms the gallery into her darkroom creating a photograph by exposing the screen, which has been coated with photosensitive chemicals, to the light of a 35mm film projector that the artist will reassemble from its various parts that are currently on view within the installation. <\/span><\/p>\n Assuming the role of artist\/alchemist, Bauer conjures the final phase of her myth of the \u201cCinematic Death Moon Return” in which the moon – once expelled from Earth in a volcanic explosion – is drawn back to Earth through the magnetic forces of the filmic technologies made from metallic elements excavated from a quarry that formed in its absence. The light of the projector suggests the ultraviolet rays of dying stars and the absorption of the light on the surface of the screen the formation of black holes or \u201cfrozen stars”. <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cNear the Last Quarter Moon, light and darkness will be juxtaposed and combined during the Impact Phase …\u00a0the Moon as she is pulled back to Earth will make impact with the Silver Screen. The fallen 35mm Projector body will be resurrected and burn into the Silver Screen its projected self. Instead of reflecting back out to us an Ultraviolet Mimesis, the point of impact on the Silver Screen will meet Silver Halides and be absorbed within their darkening crystalline forms, creating a Frozen Star Mimesis in its place.\u201d — KB<\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Please note: the gallery will be in total darkness.<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n![\"CDMRperformance\"](\"http:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/CDMRperformance.jpg\")
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\nImage courtesy of Katherine Bauer and Microscope Gallery<\/span>
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\n“Katherine Bauer, Cinematic Death Moon Return: Impact Phase”<\/u><\/a> <\/em>continues through August 26th.<\/span><\/p>\n