Longtime ISSUE Project Room friend and collaborator Tony Conrad (1940 – 2016) was a true polymath: composer, filmmaker, video artist, media activist, writer, and educator. Associated with the founding of minimal music and underground film, he was well known for his pivotal role in the formation of The Velvet Underground and The Dream Syndicate, as well as his 1966 film masterwork The Flicker. He performed and exhibited extensively, influenced countless artists, and was loved widely -- a profound and inspiring creative legacy. Tony was also a founding member of the ISSUE Project Room Board and a fundamental part of the ISSUE family.
Los Angeles based filmmaker and photographer Tyler Hubby documented Tony in performance and interview for the past twenty-two years. His feature documentary Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present debuts in June at the Chicago Underground Film Festival.
In honor of Tony, Tyler has been invited by ISSUE to share selections from his archive featuring many never-before-seen performance and interview videos, including three ISSUE Project Room performances. An open screening, the six-hour program will run throughout the evening, culminating in the presentation of Tony's legendary first public performance with Faust. The screening marks the twenty-two year to-the-day anniversary of the performance, filmed at Knitting Factory on April 28, 1994.
Program
Tony and Keiji Haino: Issue Project Room (2014)
Busting Baroque (2002 Interview)
Tony and Jennifer Walshe: Greene Naftali Gallery (2015)
Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain. Chicago (1996)
Field Recording on Ludlow (2002 Interview)
Tony and Charlemagne Palestine: First Unitarian Church, Brooklyn (2015)
Tony at MOCA. Los Angeles (1998)
On the Nature of Sound (2002 Interview)
Tony at SXSW (2006)
Tony Conrad and Faust: Knitting Factory (1994)