Microscope is very pleased to present for the first time in the US the expanded cinema performance Things Said Once (2015-2019) by Spanish artist Esperanza Collado on one of her rare visits to New York.
Anna Kipervaser is a Ukrainian-born artist whose work engages with a range of topics including human and animal bodies, ethnicity, religion, colonialism, and the environment. Her dynamic film practice is informed by a commitment to formal experimentation and incorporates 16mm, digital video, CT scans, archival images and optical printing. Currently a VSW Project Space artist, Anna has curated a program of her films along with films from the archive at VSW.
KAMERA is back for the third year with a new screening program and exhibition of moving images, video art works and artists’ books in a former GDR building in Berlin, focusing on critical exchanges about contemporary image.
KAMERA CAHIER is an artists’ booklet to be published in a special edition issue for each event.
Cinematic magician, legendary provocateur, author of the infamous Hollywood Babylon book, Kenneth Anger is a unique figure in post-war American culture. His iconic short films are characterised by a mystical-symbolic visual language and phantasmagorical-sensual opulence that underscores the medium’s transgressive potential. Anger’s work fundamentally shaped the aesthetics of 1960s and 1970s subcultures, the visual lexicon of pop and music videos and queer iconography.
Real time cartographic improvisations using projected, manipulated digital maps by Eric Theise, in live collaboration with Bob Marsh’s SCAPE, the Spontaneous Combustion Arts Performance Ensemble.
A visual wash of street grids, land masses, water bodies, and curiosities from built and natural environments. Saturated colors. The subtlest of tints. Unreal spaces for formerly-real sounds. Glitches in crowdsourced data. Jittery zooms and pans. Orphaned information and free-floating symbology.
