curating

ISSUE Project Room

Chief Curator – ISSUE Project Room is a critically acclaimed non-profit performance space dedicated to experimental music, film, video and literature located in Brooklyn, New York. ISSUE Project Room embraces the integrity of creative exploration and the spirit of unfettered artistic expression by offering a vital meeting place for disparate forms of creativity.  ISSUE Project Room provides an open and versatile environment in which established and emerging artists conduct, exhibit and perform new and site-specific work. Through an evolving collaboration with curators, artists and educators, ISSUE Project Room foments widely ranging artistic projects that challenge and expand artistic practice.

DARMSTADT “CLASSICS OF THE AVANT GARDE”

Founder/Artistic Director - Darmstadt “Classics of the Avant Garde” is the Brooklyn-based contemporary music series led by composer-musicians Zach Layton and Nick Hallett which presents the best of New York City’s live experimental music and multimedia. Darmstadt began as a “listening party” of avant-garde recordings before quickly evolving into a live performance series, and in 2007 was included in the New York Times Best of New Music rundown. Darmstadt regularly hosts its concerts at ISSUE Project Room and Galapagos Art Space, while its founders both create and curate work for such institutions as PS1, The Kitchen, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and The Stone. Darmstadt hosts an annual INSTITUTE of premieres, workshops, video screenings, and lecture-performances as well as an annual historical survey of experimental music, ESSENTIAL REPERTOIRE, at ISSUE Project Room. Darmstadt’s memorable DJ sets have been rendered at Performa’s Metal Ball, the Brooklyn Academy of Music for Steve Reich’s 70th birthday and at the Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival.

PS1/MoMa – WarmUp

2007 – 2009:  Producer/Curator of PS1 WarmUp festival.