SWAN SILVERTONES FOR TWO ROBERT'S: FENZ & HALLER / by melinda shopsin

Monday, June 20 2022
7:30PM @ Microscope Gallery
525 West 29th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10001

Microscope is very pleased to present an evening with Andrew Lampert including “Other Means” (2014) and “Swan Silvertones for Two Roberts: Haller & Fenz,” (2022) as part of our series of imageless film performances taking place in connection and collaboration with the “Imageless Films” series at Anthology Film Archives.

First presented at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago, IL in 2014, “Other Means” is an audio piece consisting of filmmakers and fellow travelers of Lampert’s talking about the “relevance of cinematic viewing versus the convenience of an iPad and other technologies.” This subject feels particularly timely after the recent closures of cinema theaters and our experience of being forcibly deprived of the theatrical projection.

The new piece “Swan Silvertones for Two Roberts: Haller & Fenz” is a “memorial reprisal” of the artist’s Projector Euthanasia series in which he “cares for” broken and barely working projectors. Lampert feeds them food and liquids, performs minor surgery
and subjects them to other restorative/destructive
actions in in order to provide a swift and painless passing.