On Saturday, March 22nd at 2pm, ISSUE Project Room invites composer Beth Anderson to host a workshop at the organization’s 22 Boerum Pl. theater as part of ongoing activations of the With Womens Work Series. This event is part of a set of performances, talks, and screenings that reengage the series first offered as digital commissions at ISSUE in 2021, where several participating artists drew inspiration from Anderson’s scores. Between March 20-22, ISSUE is pleased to present new live presentations by artists Audrey Chen, Annabelle Playe, and Sydney Spann. Following the workshop, the final evening of performances will conclude at 22 Boerum Pl. with sound artists crys cole and Maayan Tsadka.
The community is invited to engage in conversation with Anderson and other artists who have been involved in the global lineage of Womens Work, and participants of the With Womens Work Series. The workshop will discuss topics of composition, the development of score-making, and more.
The archive is not neutral. At ISSUE, we strive to help artists expose and redress the historical record and structures of power relating to sex and gender. The ongoing With Womens Work Series aims to continuously activate and grow the accounts of women’s experiences and practices in the avant-garde canon, while honoring the legacy of artists who have built and contributed to it over the years.
Beth Anderson (M.F.A./M.A.) is a critically acclaimed composer of neo-romantic, avant-garde music, text-sound works, and musical theater. Born in Kentucky, she studied primarily in California with John Cage, Terry Riley, Robert Ashley and Larry Austin at Mills College and U.C. Davis. She is a member of Broadcast Musicians Inc. (BMI), the New Music USA, Poets and Writers, and New York Women Composers. She resides in Brooklyn where she teaches piano. She also previously produced Women's Work, a concert series, for Greenwich House Arts.
