Lower East Side: Film, Video & Moving Image

Five LES and East Village shows organized around moving images and image-making machines: speech under pressure, the border as glitch, a rotating mirror chamber of Shanghai at night, hand-built video apparatuses, and the violence hiding inside botanical aesthetics.

5 exhibitions

When Thoughts Are Free

601 Artspace

Curator Sara Reisman on speech and thought under political and technological pressure — Liz Magic Laser, Rasheed, Shvarts, Varga.

Mar 7 - May 17

Amateur Detection

Various Artists

Artists who build or modify their own image-making machines for shaping time-based media — analog logic, hand-guided waveforms.

Apr 16 - May 17

Hannah Smith Allen: On Broken Ground

Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York

The US–Mexico border via Google Earth glitches, screen prints, collage, and stop-motion video — the line as hallucination, not fact.

Apr 16 - Jun 3

Jiajia Zhang: Domestic News

The Swiss Institute

A rotating cylindrical mirror chamber of synchronized videos of contemporary Shanghai, viewed from motorcycle saddles.

Apr 29 - Jul 5

Diana Sofía Lozano: Under, Cover

PROXYCO

Coca-crop fumigation in Colombia: herbicide-cloud video and mirrored sculptures of UV-printed orchids that obstruct your reflection.

Apr 23 - Jun 20