Apologies for the last minute notice, but failed to post it on this weeks listing. More info on our website as well: www.microscopegallery.com
Microscope presents as part of our emerging series YES, a solo screening of video works by Madsen Minax, an interdisciplinary artist whose work is influenced by his participation in justice-oriented communities and concerned with “the entanglements of human connectivity” and “the nature of transformation”. In his works, Minax engages with identity and personal experience, often by connecting them to larger technological, existential, social, alchemical, or cosmological themes and through the use of narrating voice. His videos employ both original and appropriated footage and combine various approaches - documentary, experimental, narrative, 3D animation, performance, among others. The 55-minute program features four short videos completed between 2016 and 2018. In “To Summon and Chase Away” (2016), shot in video and Super 8mm, Minax’s camera follows a boy in the cold winter scape of a post-industrial, rural town as scenes from his past and future conflate with his present. “Because of Us” (2017), which includes texts from the 1998 book by Marshall T. Savage “The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps", blends together sequences from educational found films with 3D animated night sky imagery, and reflects upon the mystery of the beginning of life in the universe, our human-centered view of technological advancement, and the implications of dreams of colonizing the galaxy. Admission $8 Members and Students $6 more info & program: www.microscopegallery.com
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