Sunday January 23, 7pm
A Comedy of Sabotage
A discussion on Anita Thacher’s “Loose Corner”
With Tony Pipolo, Inney Prakash, & Phyllis Rosenzweig
Online only via livestream on this page
Q&A with audience follows via live chat
Microscope is very pleased to present a conversation with Tony Pipolo, Inney Prakash, and Phyllis Rosenzweig in connection with the current exhibition of works by Anita Thacher titled “Loose Corner,” which is on view at the gallery through January 29th. The approximately 45-minute conversation will take place online on Sunday January 23 at 7pm and live-streamed on this page.
A Q&A with the audience will follow via live chat.
The discussion, like the exhibition, centers around Thacher’s 16mm film installation “Loose Corner” (1980-86) as well as a series of related photographs using similar optical processes, sets and cast of characters shot in 1980. The installation is being shown for the first time as a rear 16mm projection installation as was originally conceived and with new prints following its preservation by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
As curators, scholars and/or writers who have engaged with Thacher’s works over the years, the three participants will offer rare insights into the works on view, her recurring explorations of the domestic realm and their feminist undertones, and her inspirations such as surrealism and the magic of cinema and photography, among others.
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Tony Pipolo is a film critic and film historian who has written for Artforum, Cineaste, and Film Comment, among others. He is author of the award-winning Robert Bresson: A Passion for Film (Oxford, 2009), and more recently of The Melancholy Lens (Oxford, 2021) – a psychoanalytic study of the films of American Avant-Garde filmmakers, Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage, Gregory Markopoulos, Robert Beavers, and Ernie Gehr. He is the editor of The Psychoanalytic Review, the oldest psychoanalytic journal in English, and is a psychoanalyst in private practice.
Inney Prakash is a writer and film curator based in New York. He is the Founder/Director of Prismatic Ground, a film festival centered on experimental documentary, and a cinema programmer at Maysles Documentary Center, as well as Curatorial Lead for the San Diego Asian Film Festival.
Phyllis Rosenzweig is Curator Emerita at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, where she worked from its opening in 1974 until 2005. At the Hirshhorn she organized the survey exhibition, “Directions 1983” in which Anita Thacher’s slide installation, Anteroom (1982) was included, and solo exhibitions of work by contemporary artists such as Byron Kim, Louise Lawler, Sherrie Levine,, Glenn Ligon, and Kiki Smith. She has also organized exhibitions of photography and video works at G Fine Art, the Katzen Arts Center at American University and the DC Arts Center in Washington, D.C., and the Bronx Art Space in New York. Most recently she co-curated the exhibition, “Fast Fashion/Slow Art, with Bibiana Obler, at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, in D.C., and the Bowdoin Art Museum, in Maine.