ISSUE Member Event: An Artist Talk & Reception with Artist-In-Residence Sydney Spann

Member Event:

Sat 21 May, 2022, 5pm

Saturday, May 21st, at 5pm ET, ISSUE is pleased to invite members to an artist talk and reception with 2022 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence (AIR), sound artist and musician Sydney Spann at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. The evening will serve as an epilogue and celebration of Spann’s first commissioned work as an ISSUE AIR, "Cow, Cow, Cow, Rabbit, Recalcitrance, Bunny, Dog, Dog, Dog."

During the talk, Spann will expand upon her considerations of the partial structures of care and kinship that reproduce the nuclear family, touching on her own experiences working in childcare and her evolving recontextualization of FM radio baby monitors. The artist talk will be followed by a Q&A with attendees, moderated by Alexandra Rosenberg from CPR - Center for Performance Research. The talk marks a rare opportunity to become better acquainted with the practice of one of ISSUE’s 2022 resident artists.

The talk will follow a variant re-presentation of "Cow, Cow, Cow, Rabbit, Recalcitrance, Bunny, Dog, Dog, Dog" at 4pm as part of the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music’s 2022 Community Day.

The Community Day is free to the public and ISSUE members can RSVP for the exclusive artist talk and reception using their Member Code. Attendees are invited to stay after the talk for a reception with complimentary beer and wine generously provided by Slope Cellars.

For more information about membership and the night’s events, please contact Emma Roberts, Development Associate, at emma@issueprojectroom.org.

Sydney Spann (b.1994 Baltimore, MD) is a sound artist and musician based in New York. She works with synthesis, chance operations, recursive compositional processes and voice to intervene within a personal archive of field recordings, culminating in long form compositions and improvised performances. Her music engages the private experiences that shape public spaces, and the affective dynamics within childcare work. She has released albums with Ehse Records (Baltimore), She Rocks! (NYC), and Reading Group (NYC), with a full-length release forthcoming on Recital in 2022. She has performed at the High Zero Festival of Experimental Free Improvised Music, The Walters Art Museum, Bar Laika by e-flux, and in diy spaces and galleries throughout the US. Recent works for streaming include Sending up a Spiral of on Montez Press Radio and Attached/Detached (partial disappearance) for ISSUE Project Room’s With Womens Work Series.

The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music (BKCM) aims to transform lives and build community through the expressive, educational and therapeutic powers of music. BKCM’s Park Slope home offers private music lessons, group classes, ensembles and music therapy. Through its community engagement programs, BKCM brings high-quality music education and music therapy to thousands of students and clients at public schools and community-based organizations across the city's five boroughs. BKCM strives to be a safe, affirming and inclusive place for all people to come together and experience learning, joy, creativity and healing through music.

CPR – Center for Performance Research is dedicated to supporting artists in the development of new work in contemporary dance and performance. CPR focuses its activities in three key areas: creative and professional development support; providing affordable space for artists; and public programming. Curated and open-call programs focus on providing artists with rehearsal, residency, and performance support, which generates time and space for research and dialogue, and creates opportunities to share work in a variety of contexts. CPR’s subsidized space rental program helps to ensure that artists can access CPR’s flexible studios and performance space at affordable rates to create and share their work. By presenting work to the public through performances, work-in-progress showings, salon-style discussions, exhibitions, and festivals, CPR exposes local audiences and its community to contemporary artistic practice and process.

ISSUE Project Room programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the New York State Legislature, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.