Saturday, July 12th at 8pm, ISSUE Project Room announces a surprise addition to its summer season closing weekend: the return of “talk rock” band Title TK. Following their last rare appearance as a group at ISSUE in 2012, Cory Arcangel, Howie Chen, and Alan Licht reunite for what they call their “first show in eons.” A banter-prone trio, Title TK is ostensibly a guitar band (but don’t bring your earplugs). Often described as a cross between David Antin and Spinal Tap, their performances blur the lines between music, conversation, and conceptual art. This July at ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Pl. theater, the artists will reconvene to catch up on celebrity gossip and musical subcurrents of the past few years—or at least the past few days.
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Cory Arcangel (born 1978, Buffalo, NY) is an artist and composer living and working in Stavanger, Norway. Arcangel explores the potential and failures of old and new technologies, highlighting their obsolescence, humor, aesthetic attributes and, at times, eerie influence in contemporary life. Recent projects include ‘Let’s Play Majerus G3’ at Michel Majerus Estate, Berlin; ‘ALL I EAT IN A DAY’ Curated by Cory Arcangel and Giovanni Carmine at Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Switzerland; ‘🌊💨&🔥,’ ART on THE MART, Chicago. His work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions at Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg; Whitney Museum, New York; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Barbican Art Center, London; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami and the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zürich.
Howie Chen is a New York–based curator and writer. Chen and Mika Tajima formed New Humans, a moniker for collaborations including performances and projects with Vito Acconci, Charles Atlas, Judith Butler, John Smith and C. Spencer Yeh, among others.
Alan Licht is a musician, writer, and curator based in New York City. Appearing on nearly one hundred recordings, he is known for his guitar work in the underground rock bands Run On and Love Child and with such legendary figures as Yoko Ono, Tom Verlaine, and Michael Snow, in addition to many albums of composed and improvised experimental music. He co-founded the intermedia improvisation group Text of Light with Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo in 2000. His newest release is Havens, a double album of solo electric and acoustic guitar tracks, released by VDSQ in September 2024. Licht is also the author of Common Tones: Selected Interviews with Artists and Musicians 1995–2020 (Blank Forms, 2021); Sound Art Revisited (Bloomsbury, 2019) Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Categories (Rizzoli, 2007), and the editor of Will Oldham on Bonnie “Prince” Billy (2012, Faber & Faber/W. W. Norton). He is also a member of ISSUE Project Room’s Artistic Advisory Council.
