SAT NOVEMBER 24, 7PM TAKAHIKO IIMURA 60-70s: PERFORMANCE/FILM/VIDEO
*US Premiere of Screen Play*, a film performance & screening of *Early Film Poems* Artist in Person, Admission $6 We are very pleased to welcome Takahiko Iimura back to Microscope for a special one-night performance and screening, including the US premiere of his 1963 16mm film performance *Screen Play*. Iimura will also present his *Early Film Poems, *a collection of 6 works made between 1962 and 1971 (shot on 16mm, 8mm and video) and bearing witness to the artist's early interest in Dadaist poetry. New soundtracks by Akiko Samukawa now accompany several of the films. In *Screen Play *-* *which originally premiered in1963, at Sogetsu Hall in Tokyo - the film *Iro (Color) (16mm, color, 1962) *is projected directly onto the back of a performer whose clothes iimura gradually cuts away along the borders of the image. In this work, Iimura frees the projection screen from the rigid structure of the traditional screening by intervening on the projectable surface itself, allowing the light to pierce through the fabric and touch the skin of the body. Iimura says about the projected film: I filmed the chemical reactions that emerged when I dropped some paint into oil from a close distance, maybe from ten centimetres away. These colours exploded and created waves, and for at the end I heated it up from underneath until it went black. Nekes once filmed an operation and projected that onto his stomach, but that was done in 1965 so I was a bit earlier. PROGRAM: LIVE FILM PERFORMANCE ‘Screen Play’ (originally 1963), about 15min. w/Taka Iimura "The Film Cutter" and Andrea Monti "The Sitter" * * SCREENING PROGRAM "Early Film Poems" 16mm & 8mm transferred to DVD, 6 films, 44 minutes *The Pacific Ocean* (1971), 7min. music: Akiko Samukawa (2012) *Kiri* (The Fog) (1970), 3min. silent *Honey Moon* (1966) 7min. music: Akiko Samukawa(2012) *I Saw the Shadow* (1966) 7min. silent *Iro* (Colors) (1962) 10min. music: Yasunao Tone (1962) *Dada* 62 (1962) 10min. music: Haruyuki Suzuki (2012) Full program notes and other info at: www.microscopegallery.com - - Takahiko Iimura has been a pioneer artist of Japanese experimental film and video, working with film since l960 and with video since 1970 while residing in New York and Tokyo. He is a widely established international artist, having numerous solo exhibitions in major museums such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum, New York, Anthology Film Archives, New York, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, the National Gallery Jeu de Paume, Paris, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Reina Sofia National Museum, Madrid, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo in addition to an artist residency at the German Academy of Arts, Berlin, and Bellagio Rockefeller Foundation Study Center, Bellagio, Italy. MICROSCOPE GALLERY 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle btwn Bushwick & Evergreen Aves) Brooklyn, NY 11221 tel: 347.925.1433 [email protected] twitter: @MicroscopeEvents Nearest Subway: J/M/Z - Myrtle/Broadway other options L - Morgan Ave or Jefferson Street B54 - Myrtle/Willoughby stop is directly across the street
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