Number Series
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
15 NE Hancock
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About This Screening
Exploring perception through subtle changes of light and color over time, Madison Brookshire's Number Series presents expanded works of soft-edged rectangles-on-rectangles, created through the mechanics of film projection itself. Each film requires two 16mm projectors, with each projecting a reel of gradually shifting color that overlaps on a single screen. At times, the overlapping colors add up to white or gray, creating an uncanny experience of color as both presence and absence. Colors also extend across the film reels' optical soundtracks to produce seams of understated white noise, such that what is heard is a delayed, light-interpreted version of what is seen. Selections from the Number Series will be performed with Brookshire in attendance.
Program Details
September 11
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No. 1 (2022)
USA, 2022, One 16mm film on six reels, overlapping projection, Color, Sound, about 12 minutes -
No. 2 (2022)
USA, 2022, One 16mm film on two reels, overlapping projection, Color, Sound, about 15 minutes -
No. 8 (2024)
USA, 2024, One 16mm film on two reels, overlapping projection, Color, Sound, about 18 minutes -
No. 10 (2024)
USA, 2024, One 16mm film on two reels, overlapping projection, Color, Sound, about 13 minutes -
No. 11 (2024)
USA, 2024, One 16mm film on two reels, overlapping projection, Color, Sound, about 22 minutes