Live performances: Poetry, Slide Projections, and Music
Microscope is very pleased to present an evening of live sound, projection, and poetry by artists J Rose & Danielle Bero, Joel Schlemowitz & Jeremy D. Slater, and Shinya Sugimoto.
Organized by Shinya Sugimoto, the show’s title is inspired by the sense of feeling of being at home and home-coming, as well as the new meanings the word takes as one considers the experience of the Covid pandemic and the displacements forced by conflicts and natural disasters.
Frequent collaborators J Rose and Danielle Bero are artists working with the spoken word often set to a musical background. They will read selections from their latest releases of books/LP’s, including from J Rose’s “Pieces of My Crumbled Thoughts.”
Joel Schlemowitz’s performance — which will be accompanied by live improvised soundscapes by musician and artist Jeremy D. Slater — centers around 35mm film slide projections involving the creation of "mirrored patterns using two identical slides flipped in the projector."
Shinya Sugimoto’s solo set features new compositions for piano from his album "Resemblance Plus." Sugimoto’s minimal yet resonating investigations in solo piano will be performed alongside a video projection of a series of still images by the artist.
Each set will be approximately 30 minutes long.
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J Rose is an illustrious Spoken Word Artist from Queens, NY, and also serves as the CEO of The Rose Garden Events and Executive Producer of The JRose Experience Talk Show. JRose stands tall as a winner of various poetry slams, including the 2023 BRIC Brooklyn Grand Slam Finals and Nuyorican Poets Cafe Slam. She hosts the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Monday Night Slam at Bowery Poetry Club.
Danielle Bero, a Queens native, is a Posse and Fulbright scholar who co-founded a school for foster-care students. She is a Jack Straw Fellow with writing featured in New American Writing. Her debut as a screenwriter and director is Fruit Loops. A former Brooklyn high school principal, Bero now works in School Improvement and focuses on integrating short films, open mics, and poetry into everyday life.
Joel Schlemowitz is an artist known for working with multiple mediums including celluloid film, collage, painting, sculpture, installation, and performance. Schlemowitz’s work has been presented at institutions including at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Museum of Moving Image (MoMI), New York, NY; Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY; the New York Film Festival (NYFF), New York, NY; Tribeca Film Festival, New York, NY; Ukrainian Institute of America, New York, NY; Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Brooklyn, NY; George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY; Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge, MA; San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA; The Images Festival, Toronto, Canada; Museum of Contemporary Cinema, Madrid, Spain; and numerous others. His work has been reviewed and discussed in e-flux, Hyperallergic, Millennium Film Journal, The New York Times, Vice, and many others. Schlemowitz’s work also appears in publications including “Cinema Expanded: avant-garde film in the age of intermedia,” J. Walley, Oxford University Press, 2020; “Experimental Film & Photochemical Practices, K. Knowles,” Palgrave MacMillan, 2020; “Experimental Filmmaking: Break the Machine,” K. Ramey, CRC Press, 2018; and others. He is also the author of “Experimental Filmmaking and the Motion Picture Camera: An Introductory Guide for Artists and Filmmakers,” Focal Press/Routledge, 2019, with a second book forthcoming in 2024. Grants include from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), the Jerome Foundation, the Puffin Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, among others. Joel Schlemowitz currently lives and works between Brooklyn and New Paltz, NY.
Jeremy D. Slater‘s sound work consists of field recordings as a base to create compositions with guitar, objects, ambient noise, environmental sound, and other instruments. Performances include live performed video that is ambient and reactive. Video work also includes single and multiple channel videos for screening and installations with sound and ephemeral sculpture. In addition to his solo project ( ), he is a member of Plan 23, The Principle String Quartet, ROTC (Rubaiyats of the Cicadas), Frogwell, and tū. Jeremy D. Slater was one of the 1999 recipients of the Computer Art Fellowship from New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) and has attended the Experimental Television Residency, was guest musician at Watermill Center and HERE with Cave/Leimay, and was artist in residence at Seoul Art Space_Geumcheon in Seoul, South Korea. He has exhibited and performed in the United States, Canada, England, Germany, France, Italy, South Korea, and Japan.
Shinya Sugimoto is a Japanese composer, keyboard player, and sound artist known for his classical crossover compositions and experimental live performances. Taking off his artistic journey in Brooklyn, his creative range spans from early music to Max/Python coding, integrating historical roots with computer-generated algorithms and textures to craft otherworldly soundscapes.