Isolated Field Recording Series: Dawn Kasper - Things Mother Used To Make

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. The piece is part of the Isolated Field Recording Series, commissioning artists to produce field recordings to be streamed over the course of this challenging and isolated time.

Notes from Dawn Kasper on Things Mother Used To Make

1. Things Mother Used To Make (2020)

1. Feel Love.
2. A study in movement.
3. Collaged images flowing back and forth.
4. A recording of a recording.
5. History repeating itself.
6. The movement exposed.
7. Turns into another.
8. And into another
9. And another.
10. Over & Over again.
11. The study is rooted in observations.
12. Observing.
13. A moving image as collaged sound.
14. Graphic score.
15. Observations.
16. Observation.
17. Walking.
18. Listening.
19. Service.
20. Death.

2. Things Mother Used To Make (2020)

“Things That Mother Used To Make, a collection of old time recipes, some nearly one hundred years old and never published before” is the title of a cookbook created by Lydia Maria Gurney and published by Macmillan in 1922.

Ingredients:

1. Archive.org
2. Black Classical History Of Spiritual Jazz 1955-2012 Space Invader Radio Broadcast
3. 1960’s Vintage Film The Home Of The Future Year 1999 A.D.
4. Charlie Chaplin film ‘Vagabond’ 1916
5. IA_35000003_001 Stock Footage – Sunset Strip
6. Lysol 1950’s Commercial
7. Minds Eye
8. Purina Sea Nip Cat Food Commercial
9. Symmetry
10. The Power Behind The Nation – 1940
11. Welcome Animation
12. Clean Waters – 1945
13. Brotherhood of Man – 1947
14. Art In The African America Schools – 1940
15. Fallen Eagle – 1950
16. Fire
17. Trees – Upstate NY

3. Things Mother Used To Make (2020)

“Things That Mother Used To Make, a collection of old time recipes, some nearly one hundred years old and never published before” is the title of a cookbook created by Lydia Maria Gurney and published by Macmillan in 1922.

“THINGS MOTHER USED TO MAKE

Hermits

1 Cupful of Sugar
1/2 Cupful of Molasses
2/3 Cupful of Butter
2 Eggs
1 Cupful of Raisins, Chopped Fine
2 Tablespoonfuls of Milk
1 Teaspoonful of Soda
1 Teaspoonful of Cinnamon
1 Teaspoonful of Nutmeg
1/2 Teaspoonful of Cloves
Flour enough to roll

Cream the butter and sugar together, beat the eggs, add to the butter and sugar, then stir in the molasses, milk and spices. Add the raisins which have been covered with flour, and, last of all, the flour into which the dry soda has been sifted. Roll thin and cut with cooky-cutter.”

If you are in a position to do so, Dawn Kasper has asked all donations during the event be directed to Black Lives Matter. 

Dawn Kasper is an interdisciplinary artist working across genres of performance, installation, sculpture, drawing, photography, video and sound. Her work often improvisational, emerges out of a fascination with existentialism, subjects of vulnerability, desire, and the construction of meaning. BFA, Virginia Commonwealth University (‘99). MFA, University of California, Los Angeles (’03). Select solo and group exhibitions: Portikus (Frankfurt), 57th Venice Biennale (Italy), Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (Portland), Tang Museum, Skidmore College (New York), Granoff Center for the Arts (Providence), ADN Collection (Italy), CCS Bard College (New York), Issue Project Room (New York) David Lewis (New York), American Academy in Rome (Italy), 2012 Whitney Biennial (New York), Tramway (Scotland), Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles), Pacific Standard Time Public and Performance Art (Los Angeles), Public Art Fund, (Miami), Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst (Zurich), Kasper is represented by David Lewis (New York), and has work included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, (New York) ADN Collection (Italy), and Aïshti Foundation (Beirut). Kasper has been visiting faculty and guest critic at Sarah Lawrence (New York), Temple University Tyler School of Art and Architecture (Philadelphia), Yale University (New Haven), Städelschule (Frankfurt), Brown University (Providence), Rhode Island School of Design (Providence), Parsons (New York), California Institute of the Arts (Valencia), Otis College (Los Angeles).