PRESS RELEASE:
On September 24th, 2009 at 8:00 pm, the Artistery (4315 SE Division) plays host to DEEP LEAP MICROCINEMA's program on Palimpsests. Video art from around the world and performances from our own backyard.
Yoshi Sodeoka's "Shadowplay" by Joy Division, Reanimated is a live video of the seminal post-punk band reanimated to fit the topographic style of their Peter Saville-designed Unknown Pleasures album cover. Jordan Stone's Terminal has as its source an aged and decrepit spool of film found in an abandoned factory on the Hudson river; through delicate hand-reprocessing and optical printing, the film takes on an ethereal and transformative aura. Local film-maker and presence Matt McCormick's The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal is a favorite among both the Portland cinephile class and the taste-makers at institutions like Art Forum and Senses of Cinema. Andrew Fillipone's "Charlie Rose" by Samuel Beckett is an absurdist re-editing of Rose interviewing himself that is as funny as it is smart. Other artists include Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa, Joel Holmberg, Martijn Hendriks and Jesse Malmed.
Included in the bill are two specially commissioned musical performances. Banjo Performs Keyboard is the project of Michael Rae, a visual artist and musician whose other projects have included Dallas County Potential, YM and The Big Boo. Banjo Performs Keyboard takes as its source the already palimpsestic music of local wunderkind Keyboard (Noah De Vore) and turns it into a lo-fi Americana bash. Jeffrey Brodsky, whose other musical projects include Jeffrey Jerusalem and Inside Voices, has cooked up a special re-interpretation of former Powernap band-mate and shamanistic shredder Jonah Adels' Songs From Our Nuclear Winter.