Details:
Roger Beebe will have his first show in Wilmington since 2018 with a new program of 16mm multi-projector performances!
The program features several newer works (un arbre (2024, 4 x 16mm + video), Lineage (for Norman McLaren) (2019, 4 x 16mm), de rerum natura (2019, 3 x 16mm + video), Home Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry (2021, 4 x 16mm), alongside some of his best-known projector performances (including the seven-projector show-stopping Last Light of a Dying Star (2008/2011). He will also include a sampling of recent essayistic videos, presented as live-narrated documentaries. These works take on a range of topics from the forbidden pleasures of men crying [Historia Calamitatum (The Story of My Misfortunes)] to the racial politics of font choices (The Comic Sans Video) and the real spaces of the virtual economy (Amazonia).
Tickets can be purchased through the Jengo’s Playhouse website.
Date:
April 8, 2025
Time:
7:30 pm
Location:
Jengo's Playhouse - 815 Princess Street