THURSADAY 18th

Hello Everyone,

Let's plan to meet next Thursday at 1:30 at Simon Preston Gallery

301 Broome Street. Please read about the exhibition on our

timebasedmediablog. The gallery has a web site if you need

directions to broome street.

We will then go to Stanton Street, Luxe Gallery and visit

the exhibit of Marie Losier. Again, please read about the exhibition

in the post of our blog.

Simon Preston Gallery

301 Broome Street, 212-431-1105

East Village / Lower East Side

September 5 - October 26, 2008

Opening: Friday, September 5, 6 - 8PM

Jessica Mein will show two animated videos together with a series of drawings that attempt to capture the patina of time and layered grittiness of the urban landscape. Her videos are comprised of a series of drawings and photographs, in excess of 600 images each, collected predominately from her birthplace in São Paulo and condensed into a complex animated sequence. Each individual image has been cut, collaged and drawn on, incorporating accidents, glitches and errors, which emphasize the characteristics and limitations of the medium. Her drawings employ the quality of mechanized labor, like that of an automaton dutifully performing a task. In an attempt to break the illusion of linear, absolute time, she elicits the perceptual subjectivity of memory. Rather than narrative itself, the work is interested in the physical structure of a story, disrupting technological seamlessness with the inherent faultiness of the handmade.
Jessica Mein graduated from an MFA at Hunter College in New York in 2007. Her previous video, DeleveleD, 2007, is currently on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Paula Cooper Gallery
CHRISTIAN MARCLAY
Cyanotypes

4 September - 11 October 2008
521 West 21st Street, New York

Paul McCarthy: Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement on view through October 12, 2008

Marie Losier– OUTTAKES
Exhibition: Sept 7 – Oct 8, 2008

Opening Reception: Sunday Sept 7 from 6-9pm, 2008


Save the Date! Tuesday Sept 23th, 2008, 7pm
Florence Gould Hall, FIAF - 55 East 59 street, NYC.
Marie Losier Film screening, and conversation between Losier & Tony Conrad.

Organized by The French Institute Alliance Francaise,
as part of Crossing the Line, FIAF’s annual Fall Festival,
from Sept 15th through Oct 5th, 2008.

Marie Losier– OUTTAKES

A celluloid portrait-in-progress is transformed into a riotous playground for the Cinema’s past in Outtakes, Losier’s endlessly creative, hands-on installation devoted to industrial rock pioneer Genesis P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, Thee Majesty) and his partner Lady Jaye. Constructed almost entirely of unused clips and sound bites from Losier’s upcoming feature film, The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, Outtakes puts the forlorn footage to work in the service of a whimsical retelling of film history — one in which the transformative Genesis P-Orridge is its unlikely star.

Peephole boxes, antique lenses, a campy music video machine from the early 1960s (Scopitone) each historical device brings film off the big screen and down to eye level, providing the audience with an incredibly intimate encounter with their cinematic and musical past. Outtakes defamiliarizes and recontextualizes its way to an astounding personal tribute — and all while returning the obsolete and abandoned to center stage.

OUTTAKES constitutes the filmmaker's first solo exhibit that she devised specifically for the gallery context. In addition, Losier has invited a few long standing accomplices to collaborate on the realization of some of the works, and wishes to acknowledge and thank: artist and curator Jean Barberis, for constructing the peeping boxes and Scopitone jukebox-like filmic machine with Genesis P-Orridge re-enacting Papal Break dance; Sebastien Santamaria, for his collaboration in the making of the films and ongoing work on the feature film; and artist Bernard Yenelouis, who has worked on many of Marie Losier's film shoots, for the series of photographs depicting the rock icon as the new film star from the silent movie era.


Marie Losier is a French-born filmmaker and film curator who lives and works in New York City, whose films and videos have been featured at numerous museums (Tate Modern, MOMA, Whitney Biennial...), galleries, festivals (Basel Art Fair 08), and biennials. Losier’s upcoming and first feature film “The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye” is dedicated to Genesis P-Orridge, Lady Jaye and her band Psychic TV3 and constitutes her latest Film Portrait of leading avant garde creators including George and Mike Kuchar, Guy Maddin, Richard Foreman and Tony Conrad.

Genesis BreyerS P-Orridge is the pioneer co-founder of the famous band THROBBING GRISTLE, 1975; co-founder of hyperdelic acid house innovators PSYCHIC TV, 1981; S/He also founded spoken word/ambient music performance group THEE MAJESTY 1999. Invented the term/genre INDUSTRIAL MUSIC September 3rd 1975, releasing more than 200 CDs of experiments in music to date. In 2003 Genesis changed name to Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and began a performance/action series called Breaking Sex with partner Lady J. Breyer P-Orridge. This project is about re-union and re-solution of male and female to a perfecting hermaphroditic state. This includes having cosmetic surgeries that blur the lines between their sexes and bring them nearer to being one physically.

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