Gordon Monahan
Gordon Monahan’s works for piano, loudspeakers, video, kinetic sculpture, and computer-controlled sound environments span various genres from avant-garde concert music to multi-media installation and sound art. As a composer and sound artist, he juxtaposes the quantitative and qualitative aspects of natural acoustical phenomena with elements of media technology, environment, architecture, popular culture, and live performance.Amir Mogharabi + Amy Granat
AMIR MOGHARABI (b.1982)
Published author and artist, Amir Mogharabi’s practice to date emphasizes ephemerality and non-localizability, producing and destroying work during the course of performances derived from his experimental texts. Mogharabi’s events are quoted as “unfolding in the tradition of Dada and Fluxus,” but surpass the transformation of linguistic experience into a visual one, by exploring the performative possibilities of such a transformation. Educated in Philosophy under the supervision of scholars like Jacques Derrida and Sylvere Lotringer, the collaboration between thinkers, musicians and artists as equals, is integral to the coincidence of formal and poetic qualities found in his work.
Past performances have included Cursed by an Original Will with Stefan Tcherepnin, Lisa Cooley, NY; Conjectural End of Human History with the Silver Apples, The Kitchen, NY; Performance for Monochrome with a Hole with Jeffrey Perkins, Daniel Reich Gallery, NY; Discourse on Hysteria with Clarina Bezzola, a series of performances at the Emily Harvey Foundation, and a forthcoming project presented as part of X Initiative’s Phase II programming. His writing can be found in various publications distributed domestically and abroad.
AMY GRANAT (b.1976)
Amy Granat’s work combines film, sound, performance, photography and installation with distinctly poetic and formal juxtapositions. Drawing inspiration from early cinema, noise music, abstract painting,beat literature– she simultaneously embraces the culture of the past avantgardes, reflecting and informing it’s future. She was born in Saint Louis Missouri and received her BA from Bard College in 1994.
Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at PS1 Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Eva Presenhuber Galerie, Zurich; Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, and Basis Art Center in Frankfurt. She has been featured in such recent group exhibitions as Stray Alchemist Ullens Center, Beijing; Strange Magic Luhring Augistine, New York, Bastard Ceature Palais de Tokyo, Paris; and Born to Be Wild Kunstmuseum,St.Gallen. She will show a new feature film at a solo exhibition at The Kitchen in New York, January 2010. She lives and works in New York City.
Karen Finley
photo: timothy greenfield sanders
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 wife standing next to him. Finley will speak about the performance of the apology, the erotic transference of the media’s fixation on Spitzer’s frown and the emotional starring role for his wife, Silda. Finley will perform her latest spoken word text which examines the confession, the apology, the imagining of the sexual encounter, the travel of the escort, the compulsion, the immigrant father’s plan for his son to succeed and the couples imagined therapy sessions. Looking at the psychodrama in the intimacy of our political leaders, Finley poses to see the agony of the son’s need for approval from the father and the ancient wrestling of the feminine archetypes of mother and whore.
On January 25, ISSUE Project Room will inaugurate its new space at 110 Livingston with Gaudeamus Muziekweek, a four-day festival celebrating groundbreaking and challenging new music by emerging composers from around the world. Working in partnership ...
ISSUE is starting off the New Year with a change of scenery. That's right, Issue Project Room is moving out of our space at the Old American Can Factory and into 110 Livingston in Downtown Brooklyn. We've had a great run at the Can Factory,...