The Swan Tool: Live Movie Starring Miranda July

Plus The Big Miss Moviola Co-Star Tape #3 with videoworks by Stephanie Barber, Jennifer Reeder, Karen Yasinsky, and others. Curated by Astria SuparakThere's something strangely stunning about Miranda July. Always at the center of her cryptically playful works, July is like a collecting gravity, a gathering of mesmerizing energy. The Swan Tool (excerpts) is a "live movie" in which July enacts the dilemma of a woman waiting for something epochal to occur. Parallel to this "movie," a second story unfolds in which a nonhuman form is discovered by a picnicking family. The performance is further entangled as audience members are cast as characters using digital capture and projection. Programmer Mitsu Hadeishi manipulates the video elements while DJ Zac Love generates a live score. This is a not-to-be-missed event by the artist behind The Amateurist, Nest of Tens, and Love Diamond. July also instigated the Portland-based distribution group Big Miss Moviola. Tonight's program celebrates the newest Co-Star Tape, a touring package curated by Astria Suparak, which tracks female sexuality through the quagmire of loony and lascivious cultural codes.-Steve SeidTapes include: No Place Like Home #1 by Karen Yasinsky (5 mins); No Place Like Home #2 by Karen Yasinsky (6 mins); Fine Lines by Jane Gang (5 mins); Lullaby by Jennifer Reeder (18 mins); pornfilm by Stephanie Barber (6 mins).

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