{"id":5915,"date":"2016-06-05T08:11:28","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T12:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foetus.org\/content\/?p=5915"},"modified":"2016-06-05T08:11:28","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T12:11:28","slug":"thirlwell-scores-tony-ourslers-imponderable-film-set-for-moma-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/news\/thirlwell-scores-tony-ourslers-imponderable-film-set-for-moma-run\/","title":{"rendered":"JG Thirlwell scores Tony Oursler&#039;s &quot;Imponderable&quot; film, set for MOMA run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foetus.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Imponderable_16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5965\" alt=\"Imponderable_16\" src=\"https:\/\/foetus.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Imponderable_16-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><strong>JG Thirlwell<\/strong> has created the original musical score for\u00a0<strong>Tony Oursler<\/strong>\u2019s feature-length film\/installation <em>Imponderable<\/em>, which will be screened as an exhibition at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moma.org\/calendar\/exhibitions\/1650?locale=en\"><strong>Museum of Modern Art<\/strong><\/a> in New York from June 18 2016 until January 8 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The original soundtrack album to <em>Imponderable<\/em> by JG Thirlwell will be released on Ectopic Ents in July 2016. It will be available from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/shop\"><strong>Foetus Shoppe<\/strong><\/a> and at the <strong>Museum of Modern Art<\/strong>. It will be available on CD and digitally, and the CD will be packaged in deluxe digipack with silver foil lettering with a 48 page color booklet containing stills from the film and images from Oursler&#8217;s archive of supernatural and occult phenomena.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Oursler\u2019s <em>Imponderable<\/em> (2015\u201316) offers an alternative depiction of modernism that reveals the intersection of technological advancements and occult phenomena over the last two centuries. Presented in a \u201c5-D\u201d cinematic environment utilizing a contemporary form of Pepper\u2019s ghost\u2014a 19th-century phantasmagoric device\u2014and a range of sensory effects, <em>Imponderable<\/em> is an immersive feature-length film inspired by Oursler\u2019s own archive of ephemera relating to stage magic, spirit photography, pseudoscience, telekinesis, and other manifestations of the paranormal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tonyoursler.com\/\"><b>Tony Oursler<\/b><\/a> is a multimedia and installation artist whose art covers a range of mediums working with video, sculpture, installation, performance and painting. He and Thirlwell have collaborated n several other projects in the past, including\u00a0<em>Sound Digressions in Seven Colors <\/em>(2006).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JG Thirlwell has created the original musical score for\u00a0Tony Oursler\u2019s feature-length film\/installation Imponderable, which will be screened as an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York from June 18 2016 until January 8 2017. The original soundtrack album to Imponderable by JG Thirlwell will be released on Ectopic Ents in July 2016. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[18],"tags":[581,649,932,1335],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}