Friday, September 12th at 8pm, ISSUE presents the second 2025 Artist-In-Residence commission by multimedia artist Jackson-Pratt at the 22 Boerum Pl. theater. Working at the intersection of sculpture and sound, he continues his ongoing exploration of visual art as audio object—and vice versa—through a new durational performance featuring a microphonic sculpture at its center.
This new work builds on his Winter performance at ISSUE, The Microscope’s Slide: Live Painting Music No. 8 (for T.M.). Shifting from reactive canvas to a new sculptural centerpiece—cast from repurposed audio equipment in resin and plastic—Jackson-Pratt draws attention to the porous line between fine art and sound art with DIY ethos and questions of disposability, labor, and permanence. The piece unfolds as a four-channel composition made from hand-modified electronics moving between dense saturation and lightness, engaging the acoustic idiosyncrasies of ISSUE’s home theater.
Jackson-Pratt (Seany Nuelle) is a multimedia artist based in Queens. Over the last decade Seany has honed a body of work focused on highly dynamic, saturation-based audio. He also creates large-scale paintings and visual works that coincide with audio performance. His current focus is to draw an obtainable line between extreme audio/sound/music works, (albeit noise or otherwise) and the visual language. Sonically he strives to make music that is “unignorable” and “hyperconscious” in nature through the use of rapid editing, and diverse and often polarizing sound sources, all mixed with a distinctly human touch. Performances combine these approaches with visual works on reactive or symbolic surfaces. Seany has long worked within the greater NYC DIY community, and under the moniker Jackson-Pratt, he has performed in over 10 countries across the globe.
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