Saturday, February 6th at 4pm EST, ISSUE is pleased to host an event for ISSUE Members with Annea Lockwood and crys cole in conversation around their respective work, as well as the formation and influence of the Womens Work scores. Originally published in 1975, Womens Work sought to highlight the overlooked work of female artists working at the cusp of the visual arts, music, and performance and is a collection of performance scores.
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This Winter, 2021, ISSUE presents With Womens Work, an online series commissioning artists to create new works inspired by scores included in Womens Work, self-published by Alison Knowles and Annea Lockwood. The Series opens on Wednesday, February 3rd with a presentation of Valid ForeverrRrrRRrrr… (pt.1) by crys cole, inspired by composer Beth Anderson's Valid for Life.
The conversation and Q&A will be moderated by Irene Revell who, along with Primary Information Executive Editor & Artistic Director and 2013 ISSUE Artist-In Residence James Hoff, edited the Womens Work facsimile edition which was republished by Primary Information in 2019.
The February 6th event will be accessible via Zoom for ISSUE Members and invited guests with RSVP. For more information please contact Corinne Daniel, Development Director, at corinne@issueprojectroom.org
“We wanted to publish work which other people could pick up and do: that aspect of it was really important…this was not anecdotal, this was not archival material, it was live material. You look at a score, you do it.” – Annea Lockwood
Annea Lockwood’s compositions range from sound art and environmental sound installations to concert music. Recent works include Becoming Air, co-composed with Nate Wooley, trumpet, Wild Energy with Bob Bielecki - a site-specific installation focused on geophysical, atmospheric and mammalian infra and ultra sound sources, permanently installed at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Katonah New York, and Into the Vanishing Point, co-composed with the ensemble Yarn/Wire – a meditation on the large-scale disappearance of insect populations. Water has been a recurring focus of her work and her three installation sound maps of rivers: The Hudson River, the Danube and the Housatonic River have been widely presented. Her music has been issued on CD, vinyl and online on the Gruenrekorder, Black Truffle, Superior Viaduct, Lovely Music, New World, Ambitus, 3Leaves, XI, EM and other labels. She is a recipient of the SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States) Lifetime Award 2020. www.annealockwood.com
crys cole (b.1976) is a Canadian sound artist currently based in Berlin, who works in composition, performance and sound installation. Taking a conceptual approach she generates subtle and imperfect sound-pieces through haptic gestures and seemingly mundane materials, creating texturally nuanced works that continuously retune the ear. cole has performed in Canada, Japan, Australia, Thailand, Singapore, the USA, UK and throughout Europe. She has ongoing collaborations with Oren Ambarchi (AU) and with James Rushford (AU) (under the name Ora Clementi). Key collaborators also include Francis Plagne (AU), Leif Elggren (SW), Tetuzi Akiyama (JP), Seiji Morimoto (DE), Jessika Kenney (US), David Rosenboom (US), Annea Lockwood (US/NZ), Keith Rowe (UK), Lance Austin Olsen (CA), Jamie Drouin (CA), Mathieu Ruhlmann (CA), David Behrman (US), Tim Olive (JP/CA) and many more. cole’s work has been published on labels Black Truffle (AU), Penultimate Press (UK), Students of Decay (US), Ultra Eczema (BE), Planam (IT), caduc (CA), Bocian (PL), Another Timbre (UK) and Infrequency editions (CA/DE). She has been a guest performer on albums released by Touch (UK) and MeGO (AT). Her work has been exhibited in Canada, Russia, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, the UK and Thailand. She has been an invited lecturer, panellist and workshop instructor for events in Singapore, Moscow, Israel, Germany, USA, Sweden and Canada. cole has worked extensively as an independent curator, radio and event producer since 1999. She was the Artistic Director / Executive Director of the annual send + receive: International Festival of Sound in Winnipeg Canada from 2008 – 2019. https://cryscole.com/
Irene Revell (b 1980, London) is a curator and writer who works with artists across sound, text, performance and moving image. She is Co-Director of Electra, and over the last fifteen years has been closely involved with collections including Electra’s Her Noise Archive and Cinenova: feminist film and video, of which she is a trustee. Since 2014 she has been Visiting Curator in the MA Sound Arts, London College of College of Communication where she also holds a TECHNE AHRC scholarship for practice-based doctoral research at CRiSAP. Recent projects include They are all of them themselves and they repeat it and I hear it, a year-long reading of Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans in 2020, co-organised with Anna Barham; workshop series These Are Scores (Camden Arts Centre, 2019; Sounding Bodies, Danish Royal Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen, 2018; CNEAI, Paris, 2017, amongst others); exhibition project ORGASMIC STREAMING ORGANIC GARDENING ELECTROCULTURE with Karen Di Franco (Chelsea Space, London, 2018). Recent writing includes essays in Performing Indeterminacy (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2021); Beatrice Gibson: Deux Sœurs (Sternberg Press, 2020); and with Lina Džuverović, Parse Journal special issue on Art & Work (2020).
