Friday October 24, 7:30pm
Bradley Eros
Distance Illusions: A Chance Operation
Expanded Cinema Rooftop Performance
Followed by “OSMOSIS” on 16mm film w/ live sound
Please join us for a special expanded cinema performance “Distance Illusions: A Chance Operation” by Bradley Eros on Microscope’s rooftop to mark the final days of Eros’ solo exhibition “hẏstéry in every media,” which closes this Saturday October 25th.
The outdoor film performance will be followed by a live performance and screening in the gallery of Eros’ 2002 “OSMOSIS” presented in its 16mm film version with live sound.
The highly personal “document of architectural structures, nature and landscapes, and the body’s intimacies” is composed with original black & white and color footage shot by Eros between 1972 and 2002, when his Super 8 camera reached its end. The work was premiered at the Views of the Avant Garde as part of the 40th New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center.
Seating is limited for the event. Please RSVP or purchase advance tickets.
More information about Bradley Eros’ exhibition at the gallery follows below.
General Admission $10
Member Admission $8
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Bradley Eros is an artist working in myriad mediums including film & video, collage, performance, expanded cinema, and installation. Eros has been a catalyst of the New York film community since the 1980s and his works have exhibited and screened extensively in the US and abroad including at the Whitney Museum of American Art (in “Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art: 1905-2016”, “The Whitney Biennial 2004”, and “The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000”) as well as at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), MoMA PS1, New Museum, The Kitchen, Participant Inc., Pioneer Works, Performa09, Exit Art, Anthology Film Archives, Parrish Art Museum (Water Mill, NY), The Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh, PA), Camden Arts Center (London), Arsenal (Berlin), and The New York, London and Rotterdam Film Festivals. His work has been written about in ArtFCity, Artforum, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, The Wall Street Journal, and the Village Voice, among many others. Collaborations include the Alchemical Theater, the band Circle X, Voom HD Lab, and the expanded cinema groups kinoSonik, Arcane Project and currently with Optipus. Grants and Awards include: Acker Award, NYFA Fellowship, Experimental Television Center (ETC), and Issue Project Room’s artist in residence, among others. His work is in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Eros currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.