Upcoming Events at Issue Project Room
Sat Sep 21, 8:00 PM - Sat Sep 21, 10:00 PM
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Community: Downtown Brooklyn
Description
Saturday, September 21st, light and color improviser Lindsay Packer premieres TRANSPOSITION, her second commissioned work as a 2019 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence.
Event Details
Throughout the year, Packer creates new improvisational work in support of a research and performance project entitled Call and Response. Each program in Call and Response involves a new collaborator and builds a new conversation between elements of color, light, ephemeral form, movement, sound and site.
In Call and Response: TRANSPOSITION, Packer collaborates with composer and performer Anaïs Maviel to reveal subliminal complexity within the synaesthetic wave behaviors of light and sound. Packer and Maviel conjure the harmonics inherent in their fast-traveling wave forms: constructive interference, reflection, diffraction and reverberation result in additive color mixing, formal repetition, twinning, spectral shifts, gradient curves and transparent tones. Prismatic expansions and compressions of color and sound re-shape and are shaped by the architecture of ISSUE’s 22 Boerum space -- the space itself becomes both sender and receiver, reflecting and absorbing waves of sound and light.
TRANSPOSITION ushers into consciousness what is often hidden in plain sight. Foregrounding attention to movement and latency, luminous temporary geometries and cascading shadow forms transition from imperceptible to undeniably present. Together, Packer and Maviel demonstrate subtle mutability and crystalline coherence in relationships between sound, vision, body and site, enacting slowness within speed, locating still frames within persistence of vision.
As a musical term, ‘transposition’ describes a shift in key, the relocation or translation of a composition. Transposition counters inertia, setting an intention to carry what we already know into a new place, to find out what is possible outside a given arrangement. Both artists work with non-linear processes: reversible, impermanent, reframing rather than rebuilding. TRANSPOSITION crosses boundaries between physical presence and potentiality to trace new paths that neither artist could find alone.
Packer and Maviel approach thresholds of perception non-hierarchically, as archeologists might approach a patch of ground: each inch of earth and every decision to dig below the surface offer equal potential for discovery, both of what is suspected and what might never ha
In Call and Response: TRANSPOSITION, Packer collaborates with composer and performer Anaïs Maviel to reveal subliminal complexity within the synaesthetic wave behaviors of light and sound. Packer and Maviel conjure the harmonics inherent in their fast-traveling wave forms: constructive interference, reflection, diffraction and reverberation result in additive color mixing, formal repetition, twinning, spectral shifts, gradient curves and transparent tones. Prismatic expansions and compressions of color and sound re-shape and are shaped by the architecture of ISSUE’s 22 Boerum space -- the space itself becomes both sender and receiver, reflecting and absorbing waves of sound and light.
TRANSPOSITION ushers into consciousness what is often hidden in plain sight. Foregrounding attention to movement and latency, luminous temporary geometries and cascading shadow forms transition from imperceptible to undeniably present. Together, Packer and Maviel demonstrate subtle mutability and crystalline coherence in relationships between sound, vision, body and site, enacting slowness within speed, locating still frames within persistence of vision.
As a musical term, ‘transposition’ describes a shift in key, the relocation or translation of a composition. Transposition counters inertia, setting an intention to carry what we already know into a new place, to find out what is possible outside a given arrangement. Both artists work with non-linear processes: reversible, impermanent, reframing rather than rebuilding. TRANSPOSITION crosses boundaries between physical presence and potentiality to trace new paths that neither artist could find alone.
Packer and Maviel approach thresholds of perception non-hierarchically, as archeologists might approach a patch of ground: each inch of earth and every decision to dig below the surface offer equal potential for discovery, both of what is suspected and what might never ha
