[Frameworks] Fwd: Roger Beebe: "Films for One to Eight Projectors", Saturday April 7th

[Beebe, Roger W.]

NYC (and Greater NY and TN/KY) Frameworkers,

I’m starting the final stretch of my touring multi-projector show on Saturday with the screening at Microscope Gallery about which there’s much more info below.  For those who don’t find themselves in Gotham, here are the remaining tour stops as I head home (in a slightly roundabout way):

April 7:  Brooklyn:  Microscope Gallery, 8 pm
April 10:  Murray State: Clara M. Eagle Gallery), 5 pm 
April 12:  Vanderbilt University, 1:10 pm
April 17:  Binghamton University: Lecture Hall 6, 7:30 pm
April 18:  Syracuse (class visit only)
April 19:  Rochester: Visual Studies Workshop, 7 pm

Hope to see some of you out on the final leg of this long, long trip…

Best,
Roger

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> From "SOUNDFILM" (2015) by Roger Beebe - Image courtesy of the artist
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> Saturday April 7, 8pm
> Roger Beebe 
> Films for One to Eight Projectors
> artist in person
> We are pleased to welcome back to the gallery Columbus-based filmmaker Roger Beebe for an evening of films, videos, and multi-projector performances, including several New York premieres shown alongside some of his best-known works. The event is the New York leg of Beebe’s 3,000-mile East Coast tour. The program has been adapted to include only works never before presented at the gallery.
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> In his works, Beebe often reflects upon forms of technology that are disappearing, or potentially being replaced – text fonts, books, moving image mediums, real estate –  and critically considers their infrastructures and “replacements”, such as Amazon.com’s fulfillment centers in his 2018 “Amazonia” (NY Premiere) or the new high rises of Las Vegas, now the US city with the largest rate of suicide, in “Money Changes Everything” (2010). 
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> Beebe’s 2015 performance work for six 16mm projectors “SOUNDFILM” presents a usually unseen history of sound and its recording, focusing on its visual translation on the film strip and measuring instruments, as sound to be seen on screen. His seven projector “Last Light of a Dying Star” (2008-2011), originally conceived for a planetarium, through meticulously juxtaposed original and found footage reveals how light, space, celluloid film, early space explorations, expanded cinema, and ephemerality are intertwined. 
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> Beebe will be available for Q&A following the screening and performance.
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> General admission $8
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> Roger Beebe’s work since 2006 consists primarily of multiple projector performances that explore the world of found images and the “found” landscapes of late capitalism. He has screened his films around the globe at such unlikely venues as the CBS Jumbotron in Times Square and McMurdo Station in Antarctica as well as more likely ones including Sundance and the Museum of Modern Art with solo shows at Anthology Film Archives, The Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City, and Los Angeles Filmforum among many other venues. Beebe is also a film programmer: he ran Flicker, a festival of small-gauge film in Chapel Hill, NC, from 1997-2000 and was the founder and Artistic Director of FLEX, the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival from 2004-2014. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Art at the Ohio State University.
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> More info and full program HERE
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> 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).
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> Bradley Eros, "All that is solid melts into eros", 2018, installation view
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> Bradley Eros
> All that is solid melts into eros
> March 16 - April 22, 2018
> All that is solid melts into eros is the second solo exhibition at the gallery by Bradley Eros. In this exhibition devoted to ephemerality – a concept the artist has been radically engaging with, especially in film, video, collage, and performance, since the 1980s when he arrived in New York – Eros presents a new body of work “made of ice, ash, paper, foil, and plastic that will be altered, or disappear and be remade daily”. 
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> A détournement of a known Karl Marx quote, All that is solid melts into eros finds the artist asking for the visitors’ complicity in the physical transformation of the works themselves – which are to be burned, melted, crumpled, or flown – including in some cases their eventual disintegration. With Arte Povera as one of his longtime influences and appropriation as a recurring practice, the artist here calls into question the ideas of possession itself and of artwork as a stable and definable entity.
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> “The show 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”. – BE
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> The works on view reference the natural elements of water, fire, earth, air and are made to be periodically replaced by the artist. Ice assemblages of celluloid film, slides, and gels are left to melt. Works on paper containing words from languages now extinct are burned. Sculptures made from magazine ads are handled, crumpled, and reshaped. And, paper airplane work – in a heavy nod to Harry Smith – are to be thrown.
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> The ephemeral, by definition “lasting only briefly” is also considered as an alternative to the traditional assumptions, models, and struggles for the everlasting life of the work of art, as acceptance of change. Eros states: “Choosing liveness over permanence, I point to a philosophy of the living process, the present moment, non-possession, non-attachment and energy exchange”.
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> All that is solid melts into eros runs from March 16th through April 22nd, 2018, with an opening reception on Friday March 16th, from 6 to 9pm. For additional information please contact the gallery at 347.925.1433 or by email at inquiries at microscopegallery.com.
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> Bradley Eros is an artist working in myriad mediums including film & video, collage, performance, expanded cinema, and installation. Eros has been a catalyst of the New York film community since the 1980s and his works have exhibited and screened extensively in the US and abroad including at the Whitney Museum of American Art (in “Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art: 1905-2016”, “The Whitney Biennial 2004”, and “The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000”) 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 ArtFCity, Artforum, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, The Wall Street Journal, and the Village Voice, among many others. Collaborations include the Alchemical Theater, the band Circle X, Voom HD Lab, and the expanded cinema groups kinoSonik, Arcane Project and currently with Optipus. Grants and Awards include: Acker Award, NYFA Fellowship, Experimental Television Center (ETC), and Issue Project Room’s artist in residence, among others. His work is in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Eros currently lives and works in Queens, New York.
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