Isolated Field Recordings Series

Isolated Field Recording Series: Kim Brandt

Wed 20 May, 2020, 8pm
Streaming on this webpage, Vimeo, and Facebook Live

Wednesday, May 20th at 8pm EST, ISSUE is pleased to present a recording with accompanying video and text from choreographer and 2015 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Kim Brandt. The work is part of the Isolated Field Recording Series, commissioning artists to produce field recordings to be streamed over the course of this challenging and isolated time.

Note from Kim Brandt on the recording:

“I’ve been caught in between spaces the last two months—in between apartments and landscapes, between stillness and noise, between quick moves and the drag of waiting. I’ve been carried around, I’ve carried myself around, I’ve traveled hundreds of miles in the city and in the country, a wandering winding daily ramble, the repetition itself proving to be the destination. The routines, patterns, systems and methods that make art and make a life provide an environment to move through where seemingly ordinary occurrences become, for whatever reason, special. Inside the long days that are all one day is some sort of catalogue of the ways I move and am moved.”

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Kim Brandt's work has been presented by MoMA/PS1, MCA Chicago, The Kitchen, SculptureCenter, Pioneer Works, ISSUE Project Room, The Shed, Artists Space, Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery and AVA Gallery, among others. Her work has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, NYFA, Jerome Foundation and Brooklyn Arts Fund, and she has been an Artist in Residence at Chinati Foundation, MoMA/PS1, Djerassi, Movement Research, Bogliasco Foundation, and ISSUE Project Room. Her writing has been published by The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art Journal, Sound American and Critical Correspondence, and recent press includes reviews and interviews in Artforum, New York Times, Art in America, Artsy, The Cut, Performa Magazine, Bomb Magazine and Girls Like Us.

In response to COVID-19’s impact on public assembly and our subsequent suspension of public programming, ISSUE’s Isolated Field Recordings Series commissions artists to produce field recordings to be streamed over the course of this challenging and isolated time. The series will support artists directly in an unprecedented moment of uncertainty, struggle, and financial risk and emphasize the solidarity of artists working in a situation where everyday life is confined and separated. Focusing on recordings from artists’ current conditions, the series will broadly approach the field recording as an expanded form and open invitation to experiment with home audio recording during this period of social distancing.

Waiting room music is Tony Conrad's "Three Loops for Performers and Tape Recorders (1961)" performed by Lary 7 + Masami Tomihisa, Mia Theodoradus, Karen Waltuch, Paige Sarlin, Laura Ortman, and Delphine Griffith at ISSUE in 2017.

ISSUE Project Room's Isolated Field Recording Series is supported, in part, by the Café Royal Cultural Foundation.

As a part of ISSUE Project Room’s ongoing 2020 Spring Season, this series is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. ISSUE gratefully acknowledges additional 2020 Spring Season support from NOKIA Bell Labs, The Golden Rule Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, and TD Charitable Foundation.

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Isolated Field Recordings Series

In response to COVID-19's impact on public assembly, ISSUE is commissioning artists to produce field recordings to be streamed over the course of this challenging and isolated time. This commissioning series will support artists directly in an unprecedented moment of uncertainty, struggle, and financial risk.

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