Monday August 3, 7:30pm
Certain Uncertainties
Christy Shigekawa / Mike Newton
part of YES
admission $6 – artists in person
Still from “Untitled” (Christy Shigekawa, 2013) – image courtesy of the artist
Microscope continues its YES program of emerging artists with new and recent moving image works by Christy Shigekawa and by Mike Newton.
Shigekawa’s short films and videos begin with images recorded in life which she then manipulates until what is observed and what is imagined become indistinguishable. Newton incorporates video, 35mm photographic slides and prose poetry into his projected works to find beauty and peril at the intersections of potentially incompatible systems, such as using right-wing conspiracy theories to discuss the body. The Bushwick-based artists and long-time friends see their works as overlapping in the themes of “polysemy and uncertainty” reflecting on the “strangeness, the unknowability” manifest in their visual world(s).
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Christy Shigekawa was born in Los Angeles and earned an MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She is currently working on a documentary about her family’s restaurant in Chinatown, Los Angeles which, during the late 70’s through early 80’s, also happened to be the home of seminal punk club, Hong Kong Cafe. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Mike Newton is a Brooklyn-based artist and writer. He is an editor of Secret Behavior — a magazine about art and the human condition — and contributes regularly to The Indypendent (a progressive print newspaper based in NYC); his writing has also appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Truthout, Harp and Altar, and Coagula, among others. Newton has had solo exhibits at Fort Gondo (St. Louis) and MoNA (Museum of New Art, Detroit). He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Program includes (among others):
terrestrial wanderings
Christy Shigekawa, video, 2015, 9 minutes, 17 seconds
metamorphose
Christy Shigekawa, video, 2012, 1 minute, 10 seconds
Untitled (Video Selections from 2013)
Christy Shigekawa, HD video, 2013
Untitled (2 8mm films from 2013)
Christy Shigekawa, 8mm film, 2013, 3 minutes, 25 seconds
Collaboration with David Beard
Untitled (Video Selections from 2014)
Christy Shigekawa, HD video, 2014, 5 minutes, 18 seconds
Jury
Mike Newton, 2014, HD video with 35mm slides
Reading the Mind in the Eyes
Mike Newton, 2015, HD video with 35mm slides
DeWinter (sections)
Mike Newton, 2014/2015, HD video with 35mm slides
1000 (sections)
Mike Newton, 2015, HD video with 35mm slides
Conspiracies (sections)
Mike Newton, 2014/2015. HD video with 35mm slides
Charismatic Predator (excerpt)
Mike Newton, 2014/2015, HD video with 35mm slides
Approximate running time: 60 minutes
Still from “Charismatic Predator” (Mike Newton, 2015) – image courtesy of the artist
