Thursday, November 7th at 8pm, ISSUE Project Room and Harvestworks are pleased to present Up, within a subset, the culminating commission from 2024 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Kwami Winfield. Using audio reactive instruments built by the artist, Winfield will generate and influence sound and light across the reverberant cavern at ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Pl. Diffused projectors will scatter light, and sounds exceeding predetermined volume, pitch, and timbral thresholds will trigger cascades of varying colors, speeds, and shapes creating momentary drawings and instantly become the past.
As a participatory experiment, Winfield invites the audience to BYOI (bring-your-own-instrument of any kind)! Performers can influence a state of equilibrium, or introduce chaos. The evening will feature short solo performances by Winfield and special guests, followed by an open session where audience members can engage with the handmade instruments crafted throughout Winfield’s annual residency in conjunction with Harvestworks’ Technology Immersion Program.
This Fall, between phases of renovation, ISSUE returns to our 22 Boerum Pl. theater for a series of limited capacity Artist-In-Residence and community events. Winfield’s residency is supported by Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center’s Technology Immersion Program (TIP) for Artists. This professional development program is for artists who have a passion for learning the tools of digital media but do not have the research, training and equipment necessary to produce artworks in this medium. The 2024 residency is part of an ongoing program collaboration between ISSUE and Harvestworks, two organizations that are committed to supporting the creation and presentation of experimental performance practices while sharing resources.
Kwami Winfield is a multi-disciplinary sound artist, composer, and improviser born in Jersey City and based in Brooklyn. Winfield works with trumpet, electronics, percussion, trash, rocks, and other objects and collaborators, and is led by a fascination with the sticky, noisy, and often grotesque circuitry of everyday accumulation, consumption, and waste. In bands: Turnip King, Next Bus Pls, Many Many Girls, Camp Rock, Mom + Anon, Piss, Under the Hands of Eachother, and duo with C. Spencer Yeh. She plays cornet and electronics mainly - recordings online. Winfield has developed her interdisciplinary collaborations as a former Pioneer Works Music Resident (2023), former Chaos Computer Artist-in-Residence (2023), and in ongoing compositional contributions to the works of choreographers Arien Wilkerson, Kyle Marshall. Alongside Cal Fish, Kwami co-runs Call Waitn, DIY music label and toll free hotline featuring underground sounds at 917-426-4260.
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