Nervous Magic Lantern Performance: Abstract Expressionist Cinema

Ken Jacobs performs his latest transfixing Nervous Magic Lantern: “A mystery is that The Nervous Magic Lantern wasn’t invented centuries ago. . . . But no doubt we first needed Cubism and Abstract Expressionism to prepare for such a refutation of common experience, common sense. We needed Picasso to amusingly contradict himself, inferring more than one depthreading to his so-called still-lifes, rarefied jokes of near and far. And Hofmann! to pick up on Kandinsky and elucidate the invisible stresses between forms. Me? finally someone to slap together the device, I suggest looking back at the paintings while covering one eye” (Ken Jacobs).