Thomas Dexter’s performance work, best understood as a type of “live-filmmaking,” begins with the poetics of cinema as a vector for exploring physical translations and discursive negotiations between image and sound, signal and noise, and more broadly, representational systems.
Media
ISSUE has a significant archive of performance documentation that represents both an important link to the past, and a future resource for artists and audiences. ISSUE’s public media archive is a consistently updated and freely accessible collection of video and audio documentation from recent and past ISSUE performances. Currently, ISSUE is in the process of digitizing historical documentation from its former homes at The Old American Can Factory and silo space in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Regular updates feature newly published materials within ISSUE’s constantly expanding performance history.
After 9 Evenings: Marina Rosenfeld & Ben Vida
Composer and turntable artist Marina Rosenfeld and analog synth innovator Ben Vida reprise their improvisational collaboration first presented during Vida’s 2013 ISSUE residency.
After 9 Evenings: Morton Subotnick & Lillevan
Pioneering experimental composer Morton Subotnick premieres a new collaboration with Berlin-based video artist, Lillevan. Their light and sound duet combines analog recordings, electronic patches, and live performance on a hybrid Buchla 200e/Ableton “instrument” with live video animation.
Leila Bordreuil: Piece for Cello and Double Bass Ensemble - Live at ISSUE / September 10th, 2016
Leila Bordreuil opens her 2016 Residency with the premiere of Piece for Cello and Double Bass Ensemble at ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Theater. A new work, the piece overly amplifies all instruments in order to make corporal micro-gestures and hushed overtones audible to the human ear.
Zeena Parkins & Brian Chase at First Unitarian Congregational Society
Pioneering harpist and multi-instrumentalist Zeena Parkins performs a duo set with composer and drummer Brian Chase, two performers who share a focused intensity and immediate physicality. As an ensemble, their music crafts hyper-vivid portraits-in-sound which integrate the detail and subtlety of classical composition with the energy and urgency of improvisation.
Oren Ambarchi - LIVE at First Unitarian Congregational Society / September 8th, 2016
Oren Ambarchi opens ISSUE's 2016 fall season, showcasing his highly refined sonic work ethic that is at once nuanced and cerebral -- sonically sublime and intelligently constructed.
Eartheater at Pioneer Works
ISSUE Project Room and Pioneer Works present a summer marathon event on July 30th featuring a rare New York appearance from Daniel Menche and performances from Container, MV Carbon, Eartheater, Greg Fox, Ben Vida, and Horse Lords live in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
Container - Live at Pioneer Works / July 30th, 2016
The solo guise of multifaceted artist Ren Schofield, Container recalls the likes of D.A.F., Surgeon, and Legowelt in a set of massive sound, presented on July 30th, 2016 at Pioneer works.
Horse Lords at Pioneer Works
ISSUE Project Room and Pioneer Works are pleased to present a summer marathon event on July 30th featuring a rare New York appearance from Daniel Menche and performances from Container, MV Carbon, Eartheater, Greg Fox, Ben Vida, and Horse Lords live in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
Greg Fox at Pioneer Works
ISSUE Project Room and Pioneer Works present a summer marathon event on July 30th featuring a rare New York appearance from Daniel Menche and performances from Container, MV Carbon, Eartheater, Greg Fox, Ben Vida, and Horse Lords live in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
Lee Ranaldo and Leah Singer: Sight Unseen
Lee Ranaldo and Leah Singer have worked together since 1991 with film and music in a live setting, performing work that explores how sound and image interact, with elements of chance embraced. On June 30th, Sight Unseen used image and sound, the drone of a guitar string, the flash of a film frame set up as an open installation activated by performance.
Lea Bertucci
For her third and final show as a 2015 Artist-in-Residence, Lea Bertucci premieres new works for voice, tape and electronics at ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Theater. Developed over the course of 2015/16, these new works embody her recent approaches to composition and recording technique. Environmental sound sources and manipulated instruments/objects form an ominous sound-world, where states of alienation, ambiguity and transcendence are examined.
Yasunao Tone: AI Deviation
Japanese-American artist, writer, theorist, and composer Yasunao Tone premieres new work embracing artificial intelligence (AI) at ISSUE's 22 Boerum Place theater.
Chris Abrahams
Celebrated pianist Chris Abrahams appears in a rare New York solo performance Wednesday, May 18th, 8pm at ISSUE Project Room’s 22 Boerum Place theater. Perhaps best known as the piano player with the long form trio the Necks, Abrahams has developed a formidable reputation as a solo pianist.