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.
