tonight there are a slew of openings across the boroughs. i plan on getting to two of them.

Work ends at 6pm and then I will be heading to LUXE Gallery (no website, no linky) for the opening of Magic Box, a collaborative piece by two of my friends and fellow artists Marie Losier (Whitney Biennial 2006) and Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria.

I believe the following text is from the press release (I snagged it from another website):

The Magic Box is part of an on-going series of proposals made by Nathalie Angles for the Luxe Project Space.

Magic Box is a collaborative project by filmmaker Marie Losier and artist Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria. The viewer is invited to look through an aperture and rotate a crank to view a series of moving images of Losier’s film Flying Saucey!, frame by frame. Magic Box’s singular mechanism refers to precursors of the modern motion picture such as the mutoscope (in which the successive phases of a scene are printed on paper and mounted on a wheel that rotates).

Then I’ll be heading out to Queens for the Opolis opening at Flux Factory in LIC. Unfortunately the 7 train has no service b/w Times Sq. and Queensboro Plaza so it’s anybody’s guess how to get out there. The R train is notoriously unreliable on weekends, even for a Saturday evening. It might be faster to bicycle… backwards.

Related websites:
http://marielosier.net/
http://sebastiensanzdesantamaria.net/
http://www.fluxfactory.org/