This Summer, 2020, ISSUE and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council present The Steve Circuit, an episodic series of videos and digital artwork dedicated to the late beloved poet Steve Dalachinsky developed by his wife, painter and poet Yuko Otomo, and interdisciplinary artist Matt Mottel.
ISSUE is pleased to stream Captured in the Air, a recording from composer, performer, and 2012 Artist-In-Residence Aki Onda. "This is a portrait of Loren Connors, whom I have collaborated with for the last two decades."
ISSUE is pleased to stream Dust Dives Alive, a recording from multidisciplinary artist & 2010 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Laura Ortman. "As a White Mountain Apache woman from Arizona living 23 years in New York City, I have recorded the subways, traffic, parades, block parties, middle of the night hollering, etc."
ISSUE streams a new hybrid piece from multidisciplinary artist & 2018 Artist-In-Residence James K. "This piece is a mediation on the layers that surround isolation. It moves through emotion & constructed history, processing and dissecting them, as an attempt to fully dissolve into the ether and become one."
ISSUE is pleased to present I Have Been Alive. And I Intend to Live., a recording from writer Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves. The piece presents the excavatory explorations and efforts at autobiographical inventory of a Black female writer born in the United States at the end of the twentieth century.
ISSUE is pleased to stream Hard Exit, a new piece from multimedia producer Voice Training, working at the imagined intersection of trans poetics, game theory and digital synthesis
ISSUE is pleased to stream THE BIG SHARE, a new piece from artist, improviser, and composer C. Spencer Yeh. “Perhaps the best way I’ve been able to describe THE BIG SHARE is as a series of rough draft chapters from an unfinished novel that probably will never, nor should really, get finished."
ISSUE returns to the Flamboyán Theater at The Clemente in the Lower East Side to present American composer and musician Kali Malone, Puce Mary (Frederikke Hoffmeier) performing solo work, as well as Tongue Depressor, the New Haven-based duo project of multi-instrumentalists Zach Rowden and Henry Birdsey.
ISSUE is pleased to stream Tracking My Packages, a new collection of home studio productions, recordings, slideshows, scenes, and video from composer and trombonist Peter Zummo. "Decisionmaking, doing the logical thing, and going back to make changes, improvements. Try not to have a bad attitude about anything.
ISSUE is pleased to stream Cher Sylvère, a new piece from musician, writer, and philosopher Rachelle Rahmé. "I refuse ‘art as necessary labor’ – what I aimed to make was a collection that defended the unessential; the ‘creative no’ of isolation that moves across zones and mediums."
Thursday, June 11th at 8pm EST, ISSUE is pleased to stream Things Mother Used To Make, a new piece from interdisciplinary artist and 2015 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Dawn Kasper. Kasper across genres of performance, installation, sculpture, drawing, photography, video and sound.
June 10th at 8pm EST, ISSUE is pleased to stream April, a new piece from interdisciplinary artist duo LoVid, part of the Isolated Field Recordings Series. In their words, "Blast this noise and flicker set for ruptured times!”