From the Archives: education
Share – free audio & video jam – featured guest Bit-Tuner
10/03/10 @ 8:00pm
What is share? SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the [...]
Share – free audio & video jam – featured guests 1) Tuna Pase and 2) Borisov/Nosova & Loriot
09/26/10 @ 8:00pm
What is share? SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the [...]
Share – free audio & video jam – featured guests François Martig and Julien Bayle
09/19/10 @ 8:00pm
What is share? SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the [...]
Share – free audio & video jam
09/12/10 @ 8:00pm
What is share? SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the [...]
LITTORAL: Harry Mathews
10/26/10 @ 8:00pm
Harry Mathews is the author of various novels, poems, short fiction,and essays from New York (1930). He settled in Europe in 1952, and since then has lived in Spain, Germany, Italy, and (chiefly) France. In 1978, he returned to the United States to teach for several years at Bennington College, Columbia University, and the New [...]
LITTORAL: Brooklyn Rail Turns 10
10/22/10 @ 8:00pm
The Brooklyn Rail turns ten this year and that is certainly cause for celebration. Please join Rail Fiction/Intranslation editor Donald Breckenridge as he hosts an epic night of readings from some of the most innovative authors and translators brightening the literary landscape. “As a self-taught writer and ardent reader of formally experimental fiction, my goal [...]
Theoretical: “Book Burning — In Honor of Tiqqun’s Introduction to Civil War” Alex Galloway and Jason Smith
10/20/10 @ 8:00pm
A Book Burning: Come celebrate the launch of the new book Introduction to Civil War by Tiqqun It will be an evening of fire and words hosted by translators Alexander Galloway and Jason Smith. “Society no longer exists, at least in the sense of a differentiated whole. There is only a tangle of norms and [...]
Share – free audio & video jam
07/11/10
What is share? SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the [...]
z’ev masterclass (FREE)
06/05/10 @ 5:00pm
A very special masterclass with z’ev rhythms in sound & the sounds of rhythm A workshop based on published writings by z’ev: rhythmajik and the three fold ear [both available at myspace.com/rhythmajik] major topics: the mytho-poetics of audiology: ear drum / hammer-stirrup-anvil / labyrinth drum as traditional trance inducer / the smithy – pythagoras & [...]
Minor Musics: Lau Nau + Kuupuu
07/12/10 @ 8:00pm
Minor Musics: Finland Lau Nau Lau Nau is free spirited Finnish artist. Since the release of her celebrated debut full length Kuutarha on Chicago’s Locust Music in 2005, Lau Nau has enjoyed considerable recognition for her intimate & playful blend of ethnic tinged folk songs with curious & intuitive sounds conjured from familiar and exotic [...]
Marina Rosenfeld + Kusum + LoVid
04/07/10 @ 8:00pm
Marina Rosenfeld Marina Rosenfeld’s work has been widely commissioned by museums and institutions in Europe and North America, including the Whitney Museum, Stedelijk Museum, Tate Modern, The Kitchen, and festivals including Faster Than Sound, Performa Biennial, Holland Festival, Wien Modern, Donaueschingen, Ars Electronica, and Los Angeles’ Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology, among many others. [...]
Theoretical: Cracked Media The Sound of Malfunction with Caleb Kelly
04/07/10 @ 7:00pm
Cracked Media: The Sound of Malfunction Caleb Kelly From the mid-twentieth century into the twenty-first, artists and musicians manipulated, cracked, and broke audio media technologies to produce novel sounds and performances. Artists and musicians, including John Cage, Nam June Paik, Yasunao Tone, and Oval, pulled apart both playback devices (phonographs and compact disc players) and the [...]
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, [...]
Nat Baldwin + peace, loving + Woody Sullender
05/22/10 @ 8:00pm
Nat Baldwin New Hampshire-native Nat Baldwin is an experimental upright bassist and singer-songwriter who cut his teeth studying with free jazz legend Anthony Braxton. In addition to his three critically-acclaimed solo releases, Nat has collaborated on works with Extra Life, Vampire Weekend and is a long-time member of The Dirty Projectors. “Nat Baldwin’s upright bass [...]
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 [...]
Apothecary Hymns + Sacred Harp + Prince Rama
01/22/10 @ 8:30pm
Apothecary Hymns Alternately thought of as “drug songs” and “medicine music”, the shambolic, shamanistic realm of Apothecary Hymns came into being at the end of 2003, when ex-The Court & Spark bassist. Alex Stimmel taught himself how to play the drums so he could capture some of his nascent songs in a one-man band format. [...]









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...