01/21 @ 8:30pm - Littoral Series: Laird Hunt + Prehistoric Blackout

ISSUE’s Littoral Series began in 2006. It is a monthly event curated by Tony Antoniadis, pairing writers with musicians, sound artists, and video artists. Named after IPR’s former location on the edge of the Gowanus Canal, Littoral is an attempt to cross-pollinate poetry and fiction with image and sound, and to bring New York City’s innovative (but often separated) creative communities together.

On January 21, ISSUE is proud to feature Laird Hunt, author of a book of short stories, mock parables and histories, The Paris Stories (2000), from Smokeproof Press, and four novels, The Impossibly (2001), Indiana, Indiana (2003), The Exquisite (2006) and Ray of the Star (2009) all from Coffee House Press. His writings, reviews and translations have appeared in the United States and abroad in, among other places, McSweeney’s, Ploughshares, Bomb, Bookforum, Grand Street, The Believer, Fence, Conjunctions, Brick, Mentor, Inculte, and Zoum Zoum. Currently on faculty in the University of Denver’s Creative Writing Program, he has also taught at Naropa University and Bard College.

Musician TBD.

Prehistoric Blackout

Prehistoric Blackout is the solo project of Taylor Richardson (Infinity WIndow, Purple Haze,Human Teenager) which channels the more damaged moves associated with lost psychedelic and industrial private press records released throughout the 70’s and 80’s. The sounds emitted reveal a communion with the outsider spirit by re-contextualizing their meaning through various processes utilizing analog systems,so as to disrupt connotations or expand awareness of secret vocabularies. The outcome is a personal reflection or anonymous environment suitable for popular consumption, despite said populous’ imaginary or shadow status. Another attempt at cracking the code.

ISSUE’s Littoral Series is supported, in part, by The Casement Fund and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.