Monday March 30 – Thursday April 2, 7:30pm
YES: Lynne Siefert
Live chat Q&A w/ the artist at 8:30pm
Microscope is excited to continue online its ongoing series YES dedicated to emerging artists with a screening of three works by Seattle-based artist Lynne Siefert.
Siefert’s “Ark” (2016) highlights the surreal extremes reachable within our real world. With quasi-apocalyptic undertones, the video presents human existence in its dealings with a confined artificial environment, the ultra-entertaining locales of a cruise ship. Through meticulous and thoughtful camera shots punctuated by brief voiceovers, “Ark” mercilessly documents the life of “passengers aboard a cruise ship at the end of the world.” “Ark” and the suspended time it unfolds within seems to depict a limbo or a trip to hell of sorts with no salvation on the horizon.
The online program — which also includes Siefert’s short videos “After Light” (2014) and “The Open Window” (2017) — will go live on Monday March 30 at 7:30pm and will be available for the following 72 hours. It will be preceded by a short pre-recorded introduction by co-directors Elle Burchill and Andrea Monti. A live chat with the artist and Q&A from the online audience will follow the program at 8:30pm.
Please, stay safe until we finally get to see each other off-line again.
TO WATCH:
A “WATCH NOW” link will become available on this page. Passes for viewing can be purchased then, giving full access to the video program and live chat.General admission $7 (Valid through April 2, 7:30pm)
Member admission $5 (Valid through April 2, 7:30pm)
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Lynne Siefert is a moving image artist originally from Seattle, WA. Her 16mm films and digital works have been exhibited nationally and internationally at festivals including the Berlinale, Edinburgh International Film Festival, EXiS Experimental Film and Video Festival, L’Alternativa Barcelona Independent Film Festival, Chicago Underground, and in galleries such as Glass Box Gallery and Specialist Gallery. In 2019, Siefert became the first moving image artist to receive the Betty Bowen Award. She will have a solo exhibition in 2020 at the Seattle Art Museum.
Program:
Ark
By Lynne Siefert
HD video, color, sound, 2016, 32 minutes 30 seconds
Part travelogue, part philosophical mediation, Ark is a film about decadence and illusion. Set in the not too distant future, in a post-apocalyptic world, Ark melds lurid surrealist imagery with sardonic musings of anonymous passengers aboard a cruise ship at the end of the world. — LS
After Light
By Lynne Siefert
HD video, 2014, 8 minutes 40 seconds
A poetic journey conveying the passage of time as witnessed by an anonymous observer on an overnight train ride. — LS
The Open Window
By Lynne Siefert
16mm film, 2017, 7 minutes
Like restless, waiting missiles, towering pillars of industrial machinery send us to the desolation of the lunar surface. — LS
TRT: Approx. 50 minutes
Microscope Gallery Event Series 2020 is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).