On view Sunday, March 8th through Sunday, March 22, ISSUE Project Room presents Georgia Sagri’s Daily Bread, a streaming online exhibition and series of public and private performances conveying states of loss, mourning and offering. Commissioned as part of ISSUE’s Artist-In-Residence program, the exhibition reflects Sagri’s travels researching the social organization of Gamelan orchestras and artists' initiatives in Indonesia.

For the purpose of the exhibition seven sculptures are made, cooked and prepared in manners resembling offertory traditions, each one facing a webcam, suggesting that they are there to transmit their elements.

A website named Daily Bread allows free and open access to the seven live streams. Georgia Sagri performs throughout the run of the installation, in both live readings and voice-over; sometimes public, sometimes private, with musical accompaniment by Hunter Hunt-Hendrix. The exhibition will have no opening.

Daily Bread streams 24/7 with online appearances by the artist broadcast in the indicated streaming hours below.

Viewers are welcome to visit the exhibition during open public performances at Mathew NYC, 47 Canal Street, 2nd floor, NYC.

...In some places it is an offense to tip or bargain but when you enter a temple you leave behind all the coins you have in your pockets. If you had to tip or bargain perhaps you wouldn’t have coins in your pockets so you weren’t able to leave them in the temple. Is the one action connected to the other? Is this creating another idea about economy? Sometimes people if they don’t have coins they leave behind whatever they have in their hands; half eaten sandwiches, semi consumed beverages, paper foils and they light incense to give food to the winds. What kind of sentiment makes someone to even want to feed the winds? Is it a sentiment of acceptance for all those unknown elements, messages, particles, cells and dusts, that cannot be seen or prove their existence by been seen? Is the lighting of a candle the determination of something told? Is the light of a candle the visual proof of a message being heard? What are the similarities between the offer and the waste? What do we offer and what do we waste? Is the repression of temporalities that make visible an unknown that cannot been seen and cannot been named the state of a society that understands life only as constant naming, frame, control, knowing and beginning? How do we understand death? Do we struggle for representation or existence? How can we live without wanting to exist? How can we live without the feeling of being able to live? In some places it is more important to dress your dead relatives than those who are alive...
— G.S 2014-15

Born in Athens, Greece in 1979, Georgia Sagri studied at the National Music School of Athens, holds BFA from Athens School of Fine Arts, and MFAs from Columbia University, New York. At the center of her practice lies the exploration of performance as an ever-evolving field within social and visual life, interconnected, though distinct from the dialectics of representation in theatre, music and dance. Sagri’s work has been shown internationally in public institutions, including the Kunsthalle Basel (2014), Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2013), Biennale de Lyon (2013), ProBio, Expo 1: New York, MoMA PS1, New York (2013) and the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2011). She will be participating artist on the 14th Istanbul Biennial (September 5-November 1, 2015) curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. She is an ISSUE Project Room Artist-In-Residence.

Hunter Hunt-Hendrix is a musician-philosopher-poet known primarily as the songwriter and conceptual architect of the band Liturgy. Drawing inspiration from black metal, avant-garde classical music, rap, post-structuralist psychoanalysis, and the history of western occultism, Liturgy has performed extensively in the US and Europe, including at Pitchfork Music Festival and Primavera Sound, and at art spaces including Almine Rech, Essex Street, MoMA and Greene Naftali. In March 2015 Liturgy releases The Ark Work, following their celebrated 2011 album Aesthethica, and in April Hunt-Hendrix will delivers a lecture at the Black Metal Theory Symposium.