Monday June 16, 7:30pm ET
Videos by Kathy Brew
Artist in attendance
In-person and online
Microscope is very pleased to present a screening of works by New York-based video-maker, curator and writer Kathy Brew. The event, both in person and online, features six of Brew’s videos made between 1990 and 2018, concluding with a Q&A with the artist.
Brew’s 1990 “Mixed Messages,” a short examining “gender stereotyping in popular culture” takes us through two conflicting versions of women promoted by our society, one stereotypical and influenced by the male gaze, and another independent and unaffected by societal expectations. Original scenes shot by Brew — alternating with meticulously chosen found footage — show young girls fantasizing about their future.
Two intimate and illuminating interviews with Carolee Schneemann from Brew’s extensive video archive, find Schneemann candidly discussing making art as a woman and her start in New York, as well as introducing to the public the art of her cat La Nina, as she flips through images of the cat’s artworks in a handmade catalog.
Also on the program are short video segments from the WNET Series “City Arts” by Brew and Roberto Guerra, invaluable documents of the New York artistic scene of the late 1990s, with a focus on some of its most artist-oriented spaces. Images and stories buried in art history reported in a pragmatical and unfiltered way that we do not get the chance to see and hear every day.
General In-person Admission $10
Member/Student In-person Admission $8
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Kathy Brew is an award-winning video maker whose work includes documentaries, experimental work, and public television productions. Brew is also a curator and writer and recently served as Guest Curator for the Museum of Modern Art’s “Documentary Fortnight” (2016-2020). Other previous positions include: Curator for Lincoln Center’s “NY Video Festival;” Co-Director of the Margaret Mead Film Festival at the American Museum of Natural History; Director, Thundergulch/Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s new media arts initiative; Curatorial Consultant, WNET, Reel New York; Project Director, Capp Street Project, San Francisco. Her writing has been published in The Brooklyn Rail, Women, Art & Technology; Documentary Magazine; Civilization; World Art; Artcoast; Shift; and High Performance. She has taught at: MFA Art Practice Department and the MFA Computer Art Department at the School of Visual Arts; the Media Studies graduate department at the New School; NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program; and the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.