THIS
WEEK'S ISSUES:
This week ISSUE Project Room presents Tony Conrad with Branden W. Joseph; Melvin Van Peebles with Nondor Nevai and Mick Barr; Byron Coley and Andy
Schwartz with Loren Connors; Alex Waterman; and two free events: Gary War + Tom Carter + Purple Haze; and SHARE, a free weekly audio-visual jam.
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Tony Conrad with Branden W. Joseph
Littoral Series: Melvin Van Peebles with
Nodor Nevai + Mick Barr
Byron Coley and
Andy Schwartz with Loren Connors
Alex Waterman Reads
Robert Ashley
FREE SHOW: Gary War +
Tom Carter + Purple Haze
SHARE - Free
Weekly Audio Visual Jam
09/23 @ 8:00pm - Tony Conrad and Branden W. Joseph: A Reading, Discussion, and Performance
Meredith Drum and Alison Ward
8 PM; Admission $10
Meredith
Drum presents three low-ball sci-fi video works that form a loose
trilogy, "The Tower", "The Formula" and "The Double". The narratives
combine elements from old stories of conflict between feminine and
masculine and interior and exterior loss and fulfillment. All three
were filmed in the same feral park and graced by actress Juliana
Francis Kelly.
Alison
Ward explores the ideas and motivations behind her piece the Beastly
Beauty in the form of a performance as slide lecture. She will
re-envision her spectacular performance, an on-going farcical battle
that most recently occurred on Coney Island's beach and boardwalk in
late August. The Punch and Judy battle between two characters embodying
different elements of beauty and the grotesque features elaborate
Baroque style costumes, one set adorned with pink ribbons and lace, the
other with garbage bags and filth. Each are backed by six cheerleaders
in armor, who taunt each other with chants that merge cheerleading
rallies with traditional battle cries and King Kong-style beating of
the chest. The battle is comical with each side flirting and fighting,
hitting and kissing, much like two lovers in a fierce fight. The
choreography combines wrestling moves with traditional dance and
burlesque to create a spectacle that is simultaneously violent, sexual,
and humorous. The idea behind The Beastly Beauty, is an effort to
comment through use of physical humor and public performance, on the
nature of violence, and to upend notions of traditional roles of the
masculine and feminine.
Artist Bios:
Meredith
Drum is a cinema artist who makes both experimental fiction and
nonfiction as well as more conventional documentary. Her videos have
recently shown at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Galapagos Art Space,
Monkey Town, Fales Library and Archive at NYU and been published online
on Good Magazine and the New York Times Tmagazine. Recent honors
include a Flaherty Film Seminar fellowship, an
Artists-in-the-Marketplace residency and an award from the Experimental
Television Center. Also, she was named an "artist to watch" by art
critic Ken Johnson in his New York Times review of the AIM 29 show. Of
late she has worked with Patrick Bensard, the director of the
Cinémathéque de la Danse in Paris, on a portrait of Lucinda Childs and
with artist / choreographer Grisha Coleman on a piece about artists and
health care for Levering Investments in Creativity (LINC).
Alison
Ward is an artist whose work incorporates performance, video and
sculptural installation. She focuses on issues of identity interpreted
through physical and slapstick humour. Exhibitions include Haven Arts,
The Dumbo Arts Center, and the Bronx Museum as well as the CCCB Museum
in Spain, RAW Space Gallery in Australia and Castlefield Gallery in
England. She has done residencies at Raw Space in Australia, The Artist
in the Marketplace Program, and the LMCC studio program. Currently she
is an artist partner on board The Waterpod Project in New York City,
and is an artist in resident in LMCC's Swing Space Program.
ISSUE Project Room is pleased to present
Tony Conrad and
Branden W. Joseph in a reading and discussion followed by
a performance by Tony Conrad.
Branden W. Joseph is Frank Gallipoli Professor of Modern and Contemporary art in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia
University. In addition to writing for various periodicals, he is the author of three books:
Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the
Neo-Avant-Garde;
Anthony McCall: The Solid Light Films and Related Works; and, most recently,
Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony
Conrad and the Arts after Cage. Joseph is also a founding editor of Grey Room, a journal of architecture, art, media, and politics, published
quarterly by MIT Press since 2000.
09/24 @ 8:00pm - Littoral Series: Melvin Van Peebles + Nondor Nevai w/ Mick Barr
The incomparable Melvin Van Peebles has found success in every medium of the entertainment industry as a director,
producer, writer, actor, composer and editor. A three-time Grammy nominee, Emmy award-winner, and eleven-time Tony nominee, this trailblazer is best
known as the "godfather of independent film and modern black cinema," but don't discount his other talents. He was the first African-American trader
on the American Stock Exchange and has worked as a painter, Strategic Air Command member for the US Air Force, journalist, astronomer, and novelist.
Van Peebles will be discussing an upcoming film and graphic novel.
The evening will also include a musical performance by Nondor Nevai and Mick Barr. Nevai (drums/throat) is,
according to Thurston Moore, "a satanic power metal freak of nature...fucking weird and fucking awesome." Mick Barr is an American avant-garde metal
guitarist known for his relentless speed and agility on his instrument.
ISSUE Project Room's Littoral Series began in 2006 and presents fresh and compelling writers of today working with
innovative contemporary musicians to develop new ways of experiencing their works, in part by dissolving the boundaries between language, sonority
and
art. The series is co-curated by Suzanne Fiol and Tony Antoniadis.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from
the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with
the City Council.
09/25 @ 8:00pm - Byron Coley and Andy Schwartz with Loren Connors
ISSUE Project Room presents author and poet Byron Coley reading from an unpublished novel about record collectors
called "Dominos"...with musical accompaniment by the legendary Loren Connors, plus a reading by former editor of "New York Rocker"
Andy Schwartz.
09/26 @ 8:00pm - Alex Waterman reads Robert Ashley
Alex Waterman is a founding member of the Plus Minus Ensemble, based in Brussels and London, specializing in
avant-garde and experimental music. In New York he performs with the Either/Or Ensemble. As a curator he has organized events at Les Bains:Connective
in Brussels, OT301 in Amsterdam, Miguel Abreu Gallery and The Kitchen in Chelsea. Waterman is presently working on his PhD in musicology at NYU and
writing a book about the composer Robert Ashley with the designer and writer Will Holder. This evening at ISSUE will be scored using one of Ashley's
early graphic scores, in memoriam...Esteban Gomez (1963).
09/27 @ 4:00pm - Gary War + Tom Carter + Purple Haze FREE SHOW
ISSUE Project Room and the Old American Can Factory Market present a free show with three artists. According to La Maladie Tropicale,"
Gary
War is taking sonic wizardry to levels as yet uncharted by man," while Volcanic Tongue writes that he produces "the
best modern psych sounds bar none."
Tom Carter is a guitar player best known for his work with acclaimed psych-drone iconoclasts Charalambides. He has become
increasingly active not only a solo artist but as a collaborator, and has performed with musicians such as Thurston Moore, Jandek, Tetuzi Akiyama,
Matt Valentine, Ben Chasny, Robert Horton, and Marcia Bassett. As of late, he has concentrated his solo work on psychedelic, melodic, looped guitar
drones.
Purple Haze is Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards, Zaimph, Hototogisu) and Taylor
Richardson
(Infinity Windows, Prehistoric Blackout).
09/27 @ 8:00pm - Share - all night free open audio & video jam
SHARE is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable
equipment, plug into
our system, improvise on each others' signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every
Sunday.
ISSUE PROJECT ROOM
At the Old American Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
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