From the Archives: critical theory
Littoral: Gregg Bordowitz
05/02/10 @ 2:00pm
Gregg Bordowitz Volition For one year, every day, from August 2007 to June 2008, Gregg Bordowitz wrote questions, one line after the other. On May 2nd, the author will read aloud all the collected questions recently published by Printed Matter in a book titled Volition— Consisting entirely of questions, Volition is 142 pages of active, [...]
Littoral: MUSIC OF THE HEMISPHERES (w/ The Lickets)
04/28/10 @ 8:00pm
MUSIC OF THE HEMISPHERES The idea for –MUSIC OF THE HEMISPHERES—originates in the work of neuro-philosopher Dan Lloyd, Thomas C. Brownell Professor of Philosophy and a faculty member of the Neuroscience program at Trinity College, Connecticut. Dr. Lloyd’s research focuses on taking patterns found in brain activity and converting them into musical score. These scores [...]
Hans Grüsel’s Krankenkabinet + Occasional Detroit (O-D) The Best In ABSTRAKT ENT
05/01/10 @ 8:00pm
Hans Grüsel’s Krankenkabinet Hans Grüsel’s Krankenkabinet is an ever-changing woodgrain diorama of dark forest characters. Started in 1999 in San Francisco, California, by Hans Grüsel, the ensemble uses electronics, concrète recording, and acoustic instruments to explore the lost Teutonic rites of the past while stumbling into the failure of the future. Hans Grusel’s “sound” might [...]
Theoretical: David Joselit in Conversation with Jutta Koether
03/31/10 @ 8:00pm
Jutta Koether and David Joselit will stage a dialogue about painting. How do paintings slip from subjects to objects, and back again, never staying secure in either position. Why and how have paintings become performative? In the era of digital networks is the outmoded practice of applying pigment on canvas, linen, or wood, our best [...]
Theoretical: Liam Gillick in conversation with Seth Kim-Cohen
01/07/10 @ 6:00pm
Theoretical is a new critical discourse series at ISSUE Project Room curated in collaboration with Brandon W. Joseph (Columbia University), David Grubbs (Brooklyn College), and Seth Kim-Cohen (Yale University). Through monthly talks, panels, and classes, this series seeks to actively engage artists, writers, and audiences in examining and discussing key issues in contemporary aesthetic theory, [...]
Kenneth Goldsmith sings Roland Barthes with live String Quartet
09/11/09 @ 8:00pm
A live String Quartet (Mari Kimura, Dana Lyn, violins; Jessica Pavone, viola; Egil Rostad, cello) will perform Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and improvisations in the style of Anton Webern while Kenneth Goldsmith sings text by Roland Barthes. Kenneth Goldsmith’s writing has been called some of the most exhaustive and beautiful collage work yet produced in poetry by Publishers [...]
Tony Conrad and Branden W Joseph: a reading, discussion and performance
09/23/09 @ 8:00pm
ISSUE Project Room is pleased to present: Tony Conrad and Brandon W Joseph in a reading and discussion followed by a performance by Tony Conrad. Branden W. Joseph is Frank Gallipoli Professor of Modern and Contemporary art in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. He is the author of Random Order: [...]
(CANCELLED) David Grubbs with Michael Evans and Patrick McCarthy and in conversation with Branden W Joseph
06/03/09 @ 8:00pm
DAVID GRUBBS WITH MICHAEL EVANS AND PATRICK McCARTHY JUNE 3 David Grubbs will present two pieces: “Hybrid Song Box” and “Onrushing Cloud.” “Hybrid Song Box” is Grubbs’s soundtrack music for Angela Bulloch’s sculptural installation “Hybrid Song Box.4,” which was included in the Guggenheim Museum’s recent exhibition Theanyspacewhatever. For tonight’s performance, Grubbs will be joined by Michael [...]
Exact Change 20th Anniversary
06/23/09 @ 8:00pm
With Joan La Barbara, Loren Connors, Alan Licht, Till by Turning, Alex Waterman, Barbara Epler, James Hoff, Kenneth Goldsmith, Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang responding to and reading the work of Joseph Cornell, Franz Kafka, Morton Feldman, Stefan Thermerson, Leonora Carrington, Unica Zurn and John Cage. Exact Change publishes books of experimental literature with an [...]
Grey Room with Ulrike Müller and Emma Hedditch, Petit Mal and XXX Macarena
05/06/09 @ 8:00pm
GREY ROOM PRESENTS: XXX Macarena started to form at 4:30 pm on June 3, 2006 when Karin Schneider invited Jutta Koether and John Miller to take part in her performance Sabotage at the Sculpture Center in Long Island City. Schneider had been included in group show called Grey Flags. She set smoke machines and [...]
This Saturday, March 17, St. Ann's Church will host the second installation of String Theories, the joint partnership between ISSUE Project Room and the String Orchestra of Brooklyn that provides artists with an opportunity to premiere new expe...
