Artists-In-Residence 2007

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ISSUE Project Room is pleased to announce our Artists in Residence for 2007: Maria Chavez and Bradley Eros.

Maria Chavez creates electro-acoustic sound pieces utilizing a collection of needles that range from immaculate to broken (“Pencils of Sound”) and a collection of records in various conditions (“The Palette”). “As an active member of the improvised music scene, she has earned a reputation as one of the most alluring electro-acoustic improvisers in the underground”. She has collaborated with improvisers from across the country and around the world, notably guitarist Christina Carter most recently known for her work with DJ Shadow and bands Scorses and Charlambides. Their duo, Weird Cookie, toured the East Coast in 2003 to much acclaim. In 2004, Chavez and London-based laptop improviser Kaffe Matthews won a DLI grant to record in Kingston, New York. Chavez has also performed with Tatsuya Nakamura, Ricardo Arias and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth in her debut performance in New York City. She was recently selected for a resident musicianship at Dia: Beacon Events with Merce Cunningham Dance Company, to begin in 2007.

Bradley Eros is an artist working in myriad media: experimental film & video, collage, photography, performance, sound, text, expanded cinema & installation. Also a maverick curator, designer, researcher & investigator. Concepts include: ephemeral cinema, mediamystics, subterranean science, erotic psyche, poetic accidents, and cinema povera.

ISSUE Project Room’s Artist in Residence program, founded by Suzanne Fiol, has provided a support structure for musical ensembles, composers and sound artists since 2006. Providing four emerging artists with access to ISSUE’s facilities, equipment, PR/marketing, curatorial and technical expertise, the AIR program offers artists an opportunity to develop significant new works in partnership with ISSUE over the course of the year, cultivating long-term relationships within the organization and the greater cultural community. Artists are given a stipend for three events occurring throughout the 2007 calendar year. During the course of their residency, ISSUE curators will also mentor each selected artist in the development of his or her projects. Funds can be used for the purchasing of equipment, the creation of new works, research, travel and/or personal development.