September 2009

Mattin + Bernhard Gál

Old American Can Factory

ISSUE Project Room presents Basque artist, Mattin and the Austrian artist and composer, Bernhard Gál.

Meredith Drum and Alison Ward

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Meredith Drum presents three low-ball sci-fi video works that form a loose trilogy, “The Tower”, “The Formula” and “The Double." Alison Ward explores the ideas and motivations behind her piece the Beastly Beauty in the form of a performance as slide lecture.

Scott Draves – Dreams in High Fidelity

Old American Can Factory

Scott Draves a.k.a. Spot is a visual and software artist living in New York City. Draves is best known as the creator of the Electric Sheep. For tonight's performance, Scott’s real time video will be accompanied with live music by Zach Layton, Shelly Burgon and Michael Evans.

Nate Boyce + Ray Sweeten

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The San Francisco-based video artist and musician, Nate Boyce, performs new work as well as a performance by Ray Sweeten.

SHAPESHIFTER – curated by Michelle Handelman

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A night of film, video and performance curated by Michelle Handelman. Works that investigate revolutions of exchange both political and sexual, transfiguration, transmutation and radical distortions of psychological entropy

James Nares

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James Nares is known for his paintings, films and to some extent, his music (most notably as a member of the Contortions). He will be showing a selection of his films, with an emphasis on those which have a musical or sonic component.

Kenneth Goldsmith sings Roland Barthes with live String Quartet

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A live String Quartet (Mari Kimura, Dana Lyn, violins; Jessica Pavone, viola; Egil Rostad, cello) will perform Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and improvisations in the style of Anton Webern while Kenneth Goldsmith sings text by Roland Barthes.

Byron Coley and Andy Schwartz with Loren Connors

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ISSUE Project Room presents author and poet Byron Coley reading from an unpublished novel about record collectors called ”Dominos." Musical accompaniment by the legendary Loren Connors, plus a reading by former editor of “New York Rocker,” Andy Schwartz.

Alex Waterman reads Robert Ashley

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A conversation with Robert Ashely, scored using one of Ashley’s early graphic scores, "In memoriam…Esteban Gomez" (1963).

Scott Draves' "Dreams in High Fidelity"

Old American Can Factory

Dreams in High Fidelity is an evolving painting that illustrates the unknowable boundary between machine and human design. The infinitely playing, non-looping animation features high-resolution clips hand-picked by Draves from the thousands produced by the artificial life form he created, the Electric Sheep.

Jandek

The representative sings and plays guitar, dressed all black and backed by local musicians. The group rehearses only once, the afternoon of the show. The music is electric, loud, and largely improvised. For each show the representative writes a whole new set of lyrics, which he keeps on a music stand.