Sun, July 1, 2012
Established in 2006, ISSUE's Littoral program is a free public reading series spotlighting writers experimenting with new forms and approaches to poetry, fiction, and essays. Responding to a declining network of support for innovative experimental literature outside academic institutions, Littoral serves as a central hub for fostering cutting-edge writers, publishers, and literary journals.
ISSUE’s Littoral Series is made possible, in part, through generous support from The Casement Fund, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Sara Wintz + DITHERTue, April 27, 2010 - 8:00pmSara Wintz is a writer, editor and lead singer of the pretty panicks press. DITHER, a New York based electric guitar quartet, is dedicated to an eclectic mix of experimental repertoire which spans composed music, improvisation, and electronic manipulation. More »
Editions P.O.L & Dalkey Archive PressTue, January 25, 2011 - 8:00pmA roundtable discussion of the new French writing will include John O'Brien (founder of Dalkey Archive Press), and Paul Otchakovsky-Laurens (founder of Editions P.O.L), as well as writers Mark Polizzotti and Brian Evenson and Brooklyn Academy of Music Humanities Manager Violaine Huisman. More »
The Hole Picture: An Intergenerational Dialogue on Erotics & Porn in Lesbian-Feminist Queer Cinema Sat, March 26, 2011 - 3:00pmThe feminist reception and production of pornography has had a complicated and fascinating trajectory, a discourse of representation often bound by the logic of the male gaze. The Hole Picture brings together a selection of socio-sexual films and videos by artists Barbra Hammer, A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner. More »
The Hole Picture: Barbara Hammer, A.L. Steiner, A.K. Burns, moderated by Kelly DennisSat, March 26, 2011 - 3:00pmThe feminist reception and production of pornography has had a complicated and fascinating trajectory, a discourse of representation often bound by the logic of the male gaze. The Hole Picture brings together a selection of socio-sexual films and videos by artists Barbra Hammer, A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner. More »
Jacques Demierre and Vincent Barras – Voicing Through SaussureFri, April 29, 2011 - 8:00pmISSUE’s Littoral series presents Jacues Demierre and Vincent Barras. The detailed analysis of the sonorities of the ancient and modern languages, their re-elaboration and re-composition is finally embodied in a score-text, spread out on stage in its concrete dimensions. More »
Susan Howe & David GrubbsSat, September 24, 2011 - 8:00pmFrolic Architecture is the third and newest collaboration from poet Susan Howe and musician David Grubbs. It follows Souls of the Labadie Tract (2007) and Thiefth (2005), both of which appeared in the Records of the Year lists in The Wire. More »
Alison KnowlesThu, November 17, 2011 - 8:00pmAlison Knowles presents Loose Pages, which engages with the sculptural potential of the book through performance. Alex Waterman follows, performing one of Knowles' Bean Scores on cello. More »
Flowers & CreamThu, February 23, 2012 - 8:00pmFlowers & Cream, an independent poetry publishing imprint founded by Sonic Youth songwriter Thurston Moore, features work by young, emerging poets steeped in contemporary poetic practice and investigation/illumination. The evening features Moore joined by Elaine Kahn, Anselm Berrigan, John Coletti and more. More »
Poetry Out LoudFri, May 4, 2012 - 8:00pmISSUE Project Room presents a rare live performance with Klyd and Linda Watkins, co-founders of Poetry Out Loud-- a series of ten LPs released between 1969 and 1977 as a sort of “magazine of oral poetry.” Joined special guests Tom Carter, Keith Connolly, Dave Nuss and Messages. More »
Joseph Keckler + Mac WellmanThu, September 20, 2012 - 7:00pmat BAM Fisher, Hillman Studio: 321 Ashland Place, Brooklyn (Ft. Greene)Joseph Keckler is a musician, writer, raconteur, and performance artist known both for his musical output as well as for creating narrative monologues and collage-like performance and video works, often musical, that involve transformation through multiple characters. Playwright, author, and poet Mac Wellman joins. More »
Short takes from RIDE A COCKHORSE by Raymond KennedyFri, September 21, 2012 - 7:00pmat BAM Fisher, Hillman Studio: 321 Ashland Place, Brooklyn (Ft. Greene)Stephen Ruddy, director of Upright Citizens Brigade’s “Gravid Water” directs a dramatic reading of Brooklyn author Raymond Kennedy’s darkly comic 1991 novel "Ride a Cockhorse", recently reprinted by NYRB Classics. More »
Reza Negarestani & Florian Hecker: The Non-Trivial Goat and the Cliffs of the UniversalThu, November 15, 2012 - 7:30pmat Abrons’ Playhouse, 466 Grand Street, New YorkChimeras are integrated bodies that synthesize incompatible modalities, surpassing their respective particularities without fusing them, finding common ground, or reducing one to the other. In this performance Florian Hecker uses psychoacoustics to compose such creatures from readings of a libretto by Reza Negarestani. More »
Evan Calder WilliamsThu, November 29, 2012 - 7:00pmat Artists Space: Books & Talks, 55 Walker St. NYC"In the Wan Light of Napalm and Moon" presents new research into the intersection of two old and ever-renewing histories: horror and capital. A collaboration w/ Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe AKA Lichens and an armoire, Williams sketches a secret hell of production and circulation, inspired by a Restoration Hardware catalog. More »
PEREC! QUENEAU! OuLiPo! Thu, February 21, 2013 - 8:00pmat 155 Freeman St., Brooklyn (Greenpoint)To celebrate the publication of Georges Perec’s La Boutique Obscure and the expanded edition of Raymond Queneau’s Exercises in Style, ISSUE Project Room, in conjunction with Melville House and New Directions, presents an evening of readings and responses to both texts. More »
Renata AdlerWed, April 24, 2013 - 8:00pmat 155 Freeman St., Brooklyn (Greenpoint)To celebrate her recently back in print novels "Speedboat" and "Pitch Dark", author Renata Adler reads from both works followed by a conversation with NYRB Classics editor Edwin Frank. Adler is well known for her tenure at the New Yorker, who recently called the novels "fundamentally probing, even discomfiting, books". More »
ISSUE’s Littoral Series is made possible, in part, through generous support from The Casement Fund, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.