We are pleased to announce our Artists-in-Residence for 2012: Hunter Hunt Hendrix, Aki Onda, Sergei Tcherepnin, and Yarn/Wire. ISSUE's residency program has provided a support structure for musical ensembles, composers and sound artists since 2006.
The Floating Points programming explores the versatility of ISSUE Project Room’s house speaker system. Designed by sound artist and Floating Points curator Stephan Moore, this fifteen-channel installation of Hemisphere loudspeakers re-imagines the concert experience for both performer and audience.
ISSUE Project Room is pleased to announce the Darmstadt Institute 2011 festival. This year's festival welcomes the first U.S. performance by groundbreaking performance duo John Moran . . . and his neighbor, Saori since 2007, among a host of other adventurous artists and veritable giants of the avant-garde.
Darmstadt Institute curators Zach Layton and Nick Hallett speak on their June 2011 festival, which celebrates all of June as the ersatz new music history month in New York and draws on a wide variety of experimental approaches from the canon and current practice.
Since 1993 the record label Table of the Elements has staked its claim on a massive enterprise, intending nothing less than to rewrite the history of American music in the second half of the 20th century, and beyond. Its projects have focused on musicians whose light shimmers outside the frames of convention.
"The Sonic Unconscious" brings together three artists whose work begins in the field: Jana Winderen, Yolande Harris and Gina Badger. The disembodied sounds of the tape or record, alienated from their sources, create a metaphysical field for exploration of pure sound isolated from the visible.
Better TV, a nationally syndicated lifestyle TV program, interviewed Elliott Sharp as well as benefit hosts Jo Andres & Steve Buscemi at ISSUE’s first benefit at 110 Livingston in March 2011.
ISSUE’s Emerging Artists Commission program focuses on transdisciplinary practices with an attention to contemporary political, aesthetic, social and technological concerns. 2011 recipients include Alex Chechile, Natacha Diels, Laura Vitale, Doron Sadja, Enda Bates, Ben Vida, Michelle Nagai, and Backbreakerneckbrace.
ISSUE Project Room is pleased to announce our Artists in Residence for 2011: Okkyung Lee, Nate Wooley, Prince Rama, and James Ilgenfritz. The AIR program offers artists an opportunity to develop significant new works in partnership with ISSUE over the course of the year.
