Friday, November 15th at 8pm, ISSUE is pleased to present the third iteration of Surge from 2024 Artist-In-Residence Joni. Throughout the course of her residency, the artist has presented work-in-progress showings and new compositions of incredibly revealing, intimate and visceral sound work. The project builds to its conclusion as it reworks recordings taken during Joni’s surgeries by her doctors - per her request - and reinterprets the material to create an entirely new “body” of sound. Surge mirrors the surgical dismemberment of the source material through live compositions, sampling and looping them in an attempt to create arrangements that transcend and harmonize the body with the source material. The culminating event will take place at The Space at Irondale in Fort Greene, Brooklyn–an expansive environment, whose notion that theatre can lead us to a greater understanding of who we are best suits the Surge vision and experience.
Joni is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn. Joni’s works weave sound, image and word with performances that are concerned with the physicality of desire and control, the monumental, and the multitude of histories within the body. Through body movement and misplacement of sound, Joni’s practice seeks to decode inheritance systems and the uncontrollable reflexes within them. Traveling between Darbuka drums and glitch, magic and endurance, Joni presents work that scratches wounds in hopes for water rather than blood. Joni has a BFA from the School of Visual Arts (NY), and works within art and nightlife spaces. Joni is the Founder of Intima, a trans led Brooklyn based collective focusing on fusing art and performance into nightlife spaces and raves. Created to carve a space for the trans queer community that brings, Intima brought together thousands of queer trans people over the past year, with Joni organizing and curating all parties and events. Joni is currently on MoMa PS1’s Warm Up 2023 host committee and a contributor to the festival's curation. Joni has presented solo works as a performer and electronic musician at spaces such as Nowadays, Elsewhere, H0l0, Market Hotel, The Palace, Otion Front Studio, Chaos Computer, HERE Arts, 3 Dollar bill, Times Square Arts. She completed a residency at Otion Front Studio in March 2023. Joni is currently the nightlife manager of Brooklyn venue Market Hotel.
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