With Womens Work: Annabelle Playe – Arrow & Synchronicity

On Friday, March 21st at 8pm, ISSUE Project Room presents “Arrow & Synchronicity” by French multidisciplinary artist Annabelle Playe. Between March 20-22, the organization will present new, live performance scores at its 22 Boerum Pl. theater as part of ongoing activations of the With Womens Work Series. The evening will conclude with a panel conversation moderated by writer-researcher Sami Hopkins (2021 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow), featuring artists Audrey Chen, crys cole, and original Womens Work creator Annea Lockwood.

The work that has led to “Arrow & Synchronicity” stretches back between present day and the pandemic, when ISSUE first commissioned Playe for the With Womens Work Series. In 2021, she produced Ad Astra, a series of musical pieces born of the solar system for online streaming inspired by the “ZODIACAL MEDITATION” score by Julie Winter included in the original Womens Work Volume #1, 1975. Her new project serves as a sequel to Ad Astra, taking further inspiration from Winter’s score. Together, these pieces form a diptych, a dramaturgy of time—a musical hourglass refocusing us on our perceptions, a meditation. It will also serve as a response to Winter that weaves a dialogue between two creators echoing all women artists, two continents, and several eras and temporalities. Through powerful drones and textures, “Arrow & Synchronicity” is a way of taking care of the collective through vibration.