From the Archives: literary
Littoral: Ariana Reines + Laurel Nakadate
07/06/10 @ 8:00pm
ISSUE’s Littoral Series began in 2006. It is a monthly event curated by Tony Antoniadis, pairing writers with musicians, sound artists, and video artists. Named after IPR’s former location on the edge of the Gowanus Canal, Littoral is an attempt to cross-pollinate poetry and fiction with image and sound, and to bring New York City’s [...]
Theoretical: Thinking Out Loud: Christoph Cox and Seth Kim-Cohen
07/07/10 @ 8:00pm
Thinking Out Loud: Christoph Cox and Seth Kim-Cohen Everybody likes a good fight. Earlier this year, in the pages of Artforum, Christoph Cox and Seth Kim-Cohen publicly disagreed on how to think about the sonic arts. Cox advocates a sonic naturalism “which short-circuits the aesthetics of representation and mediation and instead affirms an aesthetics of [...]
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 [...]
Littoral Series: New York Tyrant with Phillip Stearns
12/11/09 @ 7:00pm
ISSUE’s Littoral Series began in 2006 and is a monthly event, curated by Tony Antoniadis, which pairs fresh and compelling writers with innovative contemporary musicians, sound, and video artists to deepen the artist and audience experience of the works. The New York Tyrant is a tri-quarterly literary magazine based in Hell’s Kitchen, focusing on the [...]
CANCELLED – Lucy Sexton: Sickness, A Night of Sick Stories
10/08/09 @ 8:00pm
CANCELLED apologies. Sickness: A Night of Sick Stories Hosted by Lucy Sexton Readings by: Joe Westmoreland writing about his adventures with HIV CD Clifford writing about babies, sex, and old people Nora Burns writing with an incredibly sick sense of humor Lori E. Seid writing about sick lesbians Brigid Murphy writing and singing about terminal [...]
Wingdale Community Singers
10/30/09 @ 9:00pm
The uncanny fervency of Old Time music was the starting point for the Wingdale Community Singers. A copy of Black Hole Heaven, Hannah Marcus’s album on Bar/None Records, bestowed on novelist Rick Moody by Bar/None’s proprietor, Glenn Morrow, led Moody to Marcus and a long friendship followed. The two [...]
POETRY TO THE INFINITIVE POWER(S)
10/09/09 @ 7:00pm
Join us for an evening in celebration of ISSUE Project Room featuring dozens of literature’s finest poets followed by a bacchanalian celebration and performance by These Are Powers. Proceeds will benefit ISSUE Project Room’s move to 110 Livingston. At 7pm — The Way of the Word Poetry Extravaganza curated by Bob Holman, Suzanne Fiol, and [...]
MALOMAR NITE with ARIANA REINES, DAN HOY, HOLY SHIT and JON LEON
10/01/09 @ 8:00pm
UNFORTUNATELY, Due to Circumstances beyond our control, Genesis P-Orridge, Morrison Edley and Bryin Dall will not be able to participate in tonight’s performance. MAL-O-MAR NITE HOLY SHIT DAN HOY JON LEON ARIANA REINES celebrating the RELEASE OF GLORY HOLE / THE HOT TUB BY DAN HOY / JON LEON (MAL-O-MAR: 2009) AND MY HEART LAID [...]
Angela Jaeger & Alan Licht with Pat Irwin, Cynthia Sley and Chris Brokaw
09/29/09 @ 8:00pm
Angela Jaeger: KICKWANTS ONLY: excerpts from the punk diaries Angela Jaeger is a New York-based singer and poet who has collaborated with a diverse group of musicians including PigBag, David Cunningham, Bush Tetras, The Drowning Craze, Billy McKenzie, Amy Rigby, Jim Sclavunos and Alan Licht. She has published with glass eye books, Green Panda press, Principal Hand [...]
Alex Waterman reads Robert Ashley
09/26/09 @ 8:00pm
a conversation with Robert Ashely, scored using one of Ashley’s early graphic scores, in memoriam…Esteban Gomez (1963) Alex Waterman is a founding member of the Plus Minus Ensemble, based in Brussels and London, specializing in avant-garde and experimental music. In New York he performs with the Either/Or Ensemble. Alex has worked with musicians such as [...]
Byron Coley and Andy Schwartz with Loren Connors
09/25/09 @ 8:00pm
ISSUE Project Room presents author and poet Byron Coley reading from an unpublished novel about record collectors called ”Dominos”… with musical accompaniment by the legendary Loren Connors, plus a reading by former editor of “New York Rocker” Andy Schwartz.
Littoral Series: Melvin Van Peebles + Nondor Nevai w/ Mick Barr
09/24/09 @ 8:00pm
Melvin Van Peebles is unquestionably a renaissance man and his reputation as a living legend is indisputable. The incomparable Van Peebles has found success in every medium of the entertainment industry as a director, producer, writer, actor, composer and editor. From music (a three time Grammy nominee) to television (an Emmy-award winner) to Broadway (eleven [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Angela Jaeger, Byron Coley + Gary Panter, Devin Flynn & Ross Goldstein
05/29/09 @ 8:00pm
THE RIDICULOUS NO A running quest for word slap ingénue, songstress/ poet Angela Jaeger joins forces with underground textsmith extraordinaire Byron Coley for an evening of sporadic talk – to no one, to each other, to you. A collection of psychedelic chants, words, sights and sounds will bounce between these 2 college [...]
Karen Finley
05/13/09 @ 8:00pm
IMPULSE to SUCK The performance of the apology and The separation of sex and state Karen Finley was in Albany, New York on March 10 in the Capital for a conference waiting to hear a speech from Governor Eliot Spitzer on Reproductive Health. Instead later that day, Spitzer performed an apology with his supportive, devastated [...]
Andrew Lampert, Steve Dalachinsky and Yuko Otomo
05/31/09 @ 8:00pm
Andrew Lampert, Steve Dalachinsky and Yuko Otomo GET THIS PICTURE HERE Old friends Andrew Lampert, Steve Dalachinsky and Yuko Otomo invite one and all to Issue Project Room for the world premiere of their new collaborative film: JACKA SPADES (a.k.a. GET THIS PICTURE HERE) 2009, Super 8mm, 34 minutes, black and white, sound. Steve Dalachinsky, [...]
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...
