Emerging Artists Commissions 2012

ISSUE Project Room is pleased to announce Emerging Artists Commissions for 2012: Michelle Boule, Che Chen, Jen Rosenblit and Jules Gimbrone, Matthew Papich, and Cauleen Smith.

ISSUE Project Room’s 2012 Emerging Artists Commissions will focus on transdisciplinary practices with a special attention to contemporary political, aesthetic and social concerns. This year we attempted to reach outside our normal range of focus to include a wider variety of artists working across different media. ISSUE's curators Lawrence Kumpf and Zach Layton worked with panelists Matthew Walker, James Hoff, Howie Chen and Ulrike Muller to select this year's commissions. We are very much looking forward to working with the applicants in the upcoming year.

ISSUE Project Room’s Emerging Artists Commission program is made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

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Emerging Artists Commissions 2012

Jen Rosenblit & Jules Gimbrone

"Pastor Pasture" is a revolving expanse of glory and shame.  Through research into aural and visceral structures, this work harnesses the performers in all its queerness–as soft, ecstatic, plural, unknown and full of desire. 

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Emerging Artists Commissions 2012

Che Chen

Our Lady of Lebanon Cathedral, 113 Remsen St, Brooklyn

Drawing on Indian music, Minimalism, and the outsider tradition of instrument building composers, Che Chen and Sherlock Terry‘s collaborative work is rooted in the sonic potential contained within a single note.

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Emerging Artists Commissions 2012

SOLD OUT, Michelle Boulé: WONDER

Gallim Dance Studio, the Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew, 520 Clinton Ave, Brooklyn 11238

SOLD OUT! A new solo commission by dancer Michelle Boulé, WONDER is an invitation to witness a body in a performance encounter where a shared space of curiosity and possibility is laid bare. In a continuous cycle of costumes and personas, Boulé explores archetypes and definitions of gender, identity, and virtuosity.

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