[Frameworks] Tomorrow (9/15/15) in Providence: BRUCE MCCLURE / ALEXANDER DUPUIS

[Watter, Seth]

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Magic Lantern Cinema Presents

FLICKER, PULSE
An Evening with Bruce McClure & Alexander Dupuis

Curated by Seth Watter

Admission $8


***Note: Doors at 7:30 / show at 8pm***
The art of Bruce McClure is sometimes called, with a nod to the sixties,
“expanded cinema.” A more apt expression might in fact be “reduced cinema,”
or cinema stripped to its most elementary components: light, sound, a room
full of bodies. McClure himself calls it “projector performance,” a phrase
that highlights the aspect of live enactment and improvisation that is so
integral to all his efforts. Using two or more internally modified 16mm
projectors, a handful of celluloid film loops, and a bevy of audio effects
pedals (transforming the filmstrip’s optical soundtrack into a noisy,
throbbing, industrial rhythm), McClure creates “a remystification of
cinema… meant to elicit astonishment and wonder, but calibrated for a
twenty-first-century audience attuned to the aesthetics of noise and
distortion” (Ed Halter, *Artforum*). Even when there is “content” on
display—McClure is partial to birds—the figural aspect plays second fiddle
to the real stars of the show: luminosity and blackness, rhythm and timbre,
the slowly shifting patterns that incessantly shuttle between
projector-speaker-screen and eye-ear-brain. As the artist unobtrusively
modulates brightness and processes sound, we are held in thrall to a
hypnotic, enveloping, purely perceptual phenomenon; our experience occurs
emphatically in the present, as if past and future had been temporarily
deposed by his purring machines. McClure, in short, tickles our optic
nerves in the strangest of places; “the mind flails to make concrete sense
of the image,” and “dread gives way to the joy of engaging with pure form”
(David Dinnell, *Millennium Film Journal*). Based in New York City, his
work has been featured at the Whitney Biennial, the International Film
Festival Rotterdam, the Toronto International Film Festival, the New York
Film Festival, the Harvard Film Archive, the Walker Art Center, and many
other venues.

Alexander Dupuis uses sound, light, and movement to reveal previously
imperceptible or impossible spaces. His work draws on the fields of
experimental music/film/animation, particularly those threads that develop
alternative notions of space-time. Real-time animations, cross-modal
translations, and feedback all feature prominently in his approach, which
exists both as live performances and as fixed-media pieces. He performs as
a guitarist, as well as with instruments of his own design, and has played
in various guises across the United States, Canada, and Europe. He received
his MA in Digital Musics from Dartmouth College in 2012, and is currently
pursuing a PhD in the MEME program at Brown University.

*PROGRAM*

Alexander Dupuis, *G’d(w)n’s castle*, 2015, performance for digital
projector and stereo sound, approx. 20 mins.

Bruce McClure, *Parallel Rows Cover Every Foot*, 2015, performance for 2
modified 16mm projectors and 3 film loops, approx. 25-30 mins.

Bruce McClure, *Tastefully Taut Against Germanium Satin*, 2013, performance
for 3 modified 16mm projectors and 6 film loops, approx. 30 mins.

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Magic Lantern is generously sponsored by the Robert Rauschenberg
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Media Studies at Brown University.


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