Isolated Field Recordings Series

Isolated Field Recording Series: LoVid - "April"

Wed 10 Jun, 2020, 8pm
Streaming on this webpage, Vimeo, and Facebook Live

Wednesday, June 10th at 8pm EST, ISSUE is pleased to stream April, a new piece from interdisciplinary artist duo LoVid. The piece 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.

WARNING: This video contains fast flicker and stroboscopic effects that may potentially trigger photosensitive epilepsy. Viewer discretion is advised.

Note from LoVid on April

“Time feels different now. stretching and folding. We feel the Present louder. The NOW is vaster and we are surviving within it, reassuring our children while remaining close to the truth of uncertainty.

It is inescapable. The words GLOBAL/// CRISIS /// are scientific and personal. They melt in our chests - we wake up to them and fall asleep with them. At sunrise we hold onto facts, routines, shipping orders, and recipes. At night it can seem like one large existential metaphor.

We repeat the same highly localized walks.

We are conflicted by the comfort of natural beauty and question our place within it.

We are invaders, observers, maintainers. The cities are burning and American Suburbia is anxious; flickering between boredom, isolation, fractured realities, daydreams, gratitude, and sprouting visions for a new era/generation.

The images in this recording were filmed in April (2020) with a temporospatial camera custom-made by Douglas Repetto. The sound was recorded in our home-studio at C Flickering with our handmade synthesizers.

Blast this noise and flicker set for ruptured times!”

If you are in a position to do so, LoVid has asked all donations during the event be directed to ERASE Racism. 

LoVid, the NY based artist duo comprised of Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus, LoVid's work includes immersive installations, sculptural synthesizers, single channel videos, tapestries, stained glass, participatory projects, mobile media cinema, works on paper, and multimedia performance. Collaborating since 2001, LoVid’s work has been exhibited, performed, screened, and presented internationally among others at SPRING/BREAK Art Show, And/Or Gallery, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, Real Art Ways, Good Children Gallery, BRIC, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Parrish Museum, Issue Project Room, Mixed Greens Gallery, The Science Gallery Dublin, The Jewish Museum, MoMA, Lampo (Chicago), Tectonics Festival TLV, The Kitchen, Moving Image Art Fair, Daejeon Museum (Korea), Smack Mellon, Netherland Media Art Institute (Netherlands), New Museum (NY), ICA (London), and International Film Festival Rotterdam (Netherlands). LoVid’s projects have received support from organizations including: Wave Hill, The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Graham Foundation, UC Santa Barbara, Signal Culture, Cue Art Foundation, Eyebeam, Harvestworks, Wave Farm, Rhizome, Franklin Furnace, Turbulence.org, New York Foundation for the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, Experimental TV Center, NY State Council of the Arts, and Greenwall Foundation.

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. The series will include forthcoming presentations by Rachelle Rahmé (6/17), Peter Zummo (6/18), C. Spencer Yeh (6/24), Voice Training (6/25), Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves (7/1), James K (7/2), Laura Ortman (7/8). All times are 8pm EST.

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.

Related

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.

More