PERFORMANCE
FRIDAY, AUGUST 3 (another performance on AUGUST 24)*
8:00 PM

Katherine Bauer:  Cinematic Death Moon Return:  Impact Phase Performance
Microscope Gallery
1329 Willoughby Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn

Free
http://www.microscopegallery.com/?page_id=21291

Holy shit.  This is like, take Bill Morrison's work, put in on steroids, and then give it a dose of the most potent hallucinogen you can find.  In this live performance, Katherine Bauer activates the eponymous piece in an exhibition she has going on in the Microscope Gallery in which materials salvaged from an abandoned movie theater are surrounded by night-blooming plants.  Bauer presents a self-created myth in which in which the moon -- once supposedly expelled from Earth in a volcanic explosion -- is drawn back to Earth through the magnetic forces of the filmic technologies made from metallic elements excavated from the quarry that formed where the moon was expelled.  (Got that?)  The gallery will be plunged into darkness, becoming a dark room in which a photochemically treated movie screen becomes a photograph that is exposed to light coming from a 35 mm projector Bauer will reassemble from the parts salvaged from the abandoned movie theater (representing the materials excavated from the quarry formed on Earth by moon's volcanic expulsion).  (Got that?)  The light coming from the projector represents the moon, returning to the photochemically treated screen representing the Earth (I think).  (Got that?)  In the end, a photograph will have been created on the screen, embodying all this stuff.  This will not be your standard night out.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  What's more, before or after you can go to Ops Pizza for good Neapolitan pies and the most fun natural wine program there is.