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Bergsonist: As If Reality?

ISSUE in partnership with Harvestworks and Center for Performance Research is pleased to present As If Reality?, a new work from multi-disciplinary artist, musician, designer and 2022 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Selwa Abd (Bergsonist).

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CPR – Center for Performance Research

ISSUE in partnership with Harvestworks and Center for Performance Research is pleased to present As If Reality?, a new work from multi-disciplinary artist, musician, designer and 2022 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Selwa Abd (Bergsonist).

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Bergsonist: As If Reality?

June 10 8pm & June 11 3pm, ISSUE & Harvestworks are pleased to present two new works from artist, musician, and designer Selwa Abd (Bergsonist). The June 10 program features the premiere of a new video work streamed on the ISSUE website; June 11 is an outdoor performance taking place on Governors Island.

Bergsonist: As If Reality?

Building 10a Nolan Park Governors Island

June 10 8pm & June 11 3pm, ISSUE & Harvestworks are pleased to present two new works from artist, musician, and designer Selwa Abd (Bergsonist). The June 10 program features the premiere of a new video work streamed on the ISSUE website; June 11 is an outdoor performance taking place on Governors Island.

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Artists-In-Residence 2022

Ongoing Series

ISSUE is pleased to announce producer, DJ & artist Dion McKenzie (TYGAPAW), sound artist & musician Sydney Spann, choreographer & composer Tatyana Tenenbaum, and multi-disciplinary artist, musician, and designer Selwa Abd (Bergsonist) as Artists-In-Residence presenting new works in the 2022 season.

Isolated Field Recording Series: Bergsonist - D'un fragment à l'autre

Streaming on this webpage, Vimeo, and Facebook Live

Translating to “from one fragment to another,” D'un fragment à l'autre is a sonic retrospective of “exhumed” fragments from Bergsonist's published body of work and a collaboration with multimedia artist and longtime visual collaborator Greg Zifcak.

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Bergsonist at First Unitarian

Brooklyn-based, Moroccan-born Selwa Abd uses the fictional character Bergsonist (derived from Gilles Deleuze’s Bergsonism) as her musical guise. For this performance, she has written a sonic ode to the decaying Internet.

William Basinski / Bergsonist / YATTA

First Unitarian Congregational Society

ISSUE's 2017 fall season opens at the First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn Heights with celebrated process-musician William Basinski, Brooklyn-based artist Selwa Abd’s Bergonist project, and Houston-born digipoet YATTA each in solo performance. Join as an ISSUE Member at any level and get a free ticket.

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