The Dreamlands: Expanded series concludes tomorrow with: *Optipus collective & orchestra -**"The Owl Flies at Twilight**"*
*at *Knockdown Center <http://www.knockdown.center/>, 52-19 Flushing Ave, Maspeth, NY 11378 Projections in various formats by *Bradley Eros*, *Lary Seven*, *Katherine Bauer*, *Rachael Guma*, *Genevieve H-K*, *Kenneth Zoran Curwood*, *Joel Schlemowitz*, *Tim Geraghty*, *Sarah Halpern*, *Scott Kiernan. **Simon Liu* , *Alison Nguyen*, *Lily Jue Sheng*, *Antonia Kuo*, *Gill Arno, Shona Masarin* & *Andrew Hurst*. Sound organized by *Mia Theodoratus* (strings), *Michael Evans* (percussion), *Victoria Keddie* (electronics), with:* Richard Sylvarnes*, *Gabriel Guma*, *Rachelle Rahme*, *Zach Layton, MV Carbon*, *Laura Ortman, David Grollman*, *Kevin Shea*, *Jake Naussbaum*, *Rachael Guma*. Reserve TICKETS HERE <https://microscopegallery.ticketleap.com/dreamlands-expanded---optipus/> For the 10th and final event of "Dreamlands: Expanded <http://www.microscopegallery.com/?page_id=18550>", a series of expanded cinema events organized by Microscope <http://www.microscopegallery.com/> in collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art as part of the exhibition "Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016 <http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/Dreamlands>", we are thrilled to present a new multi-projection and sound performance *The Owl Flies at Twilight *composed by the Optipus collective & orchestra in its largest configuration to date featuring 28 artists. New York collective or “media laboratory” *Optipus*, led by Bradley Eros, hints at the historic demise of analog media and the wisdom resulting from this awareness in their new work titled “The Owl Flies at Twilight”, referencing G.W.F. Hegel’s famous quote. Three distinct movements examine specific connections between vision and sound: Psychedelic, liquid light, and other complex color compositions paired with electronics; Figurative and photographic images coupled with strings; Minimal uses of pure colors, flickers, and gels accompanied by percussion elements. - *Optipus* is a nomadic group of chameleon artists, cine-scientists in search of a laboratory, shape-shifting according to site-specific requirements. The group embraces the ephemeral cinema of unfixed forms and open composition. Optipus’s members emerge in myriad collaborations, producing works and events, soundtracks and invented instruments, video edits and film loops, expanded cinema and immersive installations. Optipus has been seen at various venues including The Kitchen, Anthology Film Archives, Participant Inc., New York University, Microscope Gallery, Bobby Redd Project Space (The Church), Millennium Film Workshop, and others. For additional information please contact the gallery at 347.925.1433 or by email at [email protected] *Please note:* Knockdown Center is located at 52-19 Flushing Ave, in Maspeth, NY, within walking distance of Microscope Gallery and the Jefferson L train, and shuttle service is provided between the L subway stop and the Knockdown Center. To track the shuttle visit http://knockdown.info/ *About Knockdown Center* Knockdown Center is a 50,000 sq.ft. art and events space dedicated to unusual projects and collaborations. Featuring programming of diverse formats and media, Knockdown Center aims to create a radically cross-disciplinary environment. *About “Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016"* This fall, the Whitney Museum of American Art presents Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016, a landmark exhibition that focuses on the ways in which technology has created new forms of immersive experience using the moving image. Artists have dismantled and reassembled the conventions of cinema—screen, projection, darkness—to create new readings of space, optical form, and time. The exhibition will fill the Museum’s 18,000-square-foot Neil Bluhm Family Galleries on the fifth floor, as well as the adjacent Kaufman Gallery, and will include a substantial film program in the Susan and John Hess Family Theater, and a series of expanded cinema events organized by Microscope Gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn, in collaboration with the Whitney. Organized by Chrissie Iles, the Whitney’s Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator. More info *here* <http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/Dreamlands> *Special Thanks to Rooftop Films.*
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