Bridget Donahue, New York
The Modern Institute, Glasgow
Natural Information Society
Front Porch Productions
Eremite Records
Drag City Records
press
inquires
news
September 30 - November 11, 2023
Spinning Echo
Bridget Donahue, New York
Natural Information Society
upcoming:
December 2, 2023
opening for Angel Olsen
Thalia Hall, Chicago
November 11, 2023
Le Guess Who Festival
Utrecht, Netherlands
November 3, 2023
Jazzfest Berlin
Sonic Dreams
w/ Separatist Party & Bitchin Bajas
Berlin, Germany
September 14 - 24, 2023
Natural Information Society tour
9 - 14
Neptune Theater, Seattle
9- 16
REDCAT, Los Angeles
9- 20
Pioneer Works, Brooklyn
(with Ben Vida + Yarnwire)
9 - 21 + 22 + 23
Solar Myth, Philadelphia
(21st NIS joined by Marshall Allen & Ari Brown)
9- 24
Woodsist Festival, Accord, NY
June 24–September 10, 2023
Calling
Der Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen
Düsseldorf, Germany
June 2–September 3, 2023
Lisa Alvarado / MATRIX 192
The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum
Hartford, CT
NIS performance June 3
Art In America
Natural Information Society
Chicago shows
September 7, 2023
Record release show
Constellation
September 4, 2023
Plantasia : presented by Sacred Bones and Empty Bottle
Garfield Park Conservatory
August 11, 2023
Hyde Park Jazz Festival
Navy Pier
April 1 - August 20, 2023
Pulse Meridian Foliation
Lisa Alvarado
curated by Daniela Lieja Quintanar
REDCAT, Los Angeles
Artforum
Hyperallergic
March 3 - October 15, 2023
Contemporary Cartographies
Museum of Contemporary Art
Jacksonville, Florida
July 29, 2023
Natural Information Society + Evan Parker
Jazz em Agosto
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Lisboa, Portugal
July 14 - 16, 2023
Natural Information Society
Motvind Festival
Motvind i Middelalderskogen
Rollag, Norway
May 6 - June 4, 2023
‘ton not. not ton’
Kunsthalle Münster
Münster, Germany
e-flux
April 14, 2023
Natural Information Society
Since Time Is Gravity
x2 LP
Eremite Records
Aguirre Records
bandcamp
The FADER
NPR
The Wire
Brooklyn Vegan
NPR feature
Bandcamp
Pitchfork
February 9 - April 8, 2023
Re-materialized: The Stuff That Matters
Kaufmann Repetto, Milan
(curated by Astrid Welter, in both Milan and New York galleries)
Lisa Alvarado, Maja Bajevic, Jonathan Baldock, Leda Catunda, Christina Forrer, Jeffrey Gibson, Françoise Grossen, Yee I-Lann, Suzanne Jackson, Charlotte Johannesson, Luba Krejčí, Maria Lai, Barbara Levittoux-Świderska, Rodney McMillian, Hana Miletić, Małgorzata Mirga Tas, Rosita and Angela Missoni, Dianna Molzan, Margherita Raso, Erin M. Riley, LJ Roberts, and Pae White.
April 7, 2023
Natural Information Society
Constellation 10 Year Celebration
Constellation, Chicago
December 31, 2022
Natural Information Society + Ari Brown
&
The Separatist Party
New Years Eve
Constellation, Chicago
The New York Times
December 21, 2022
Hamid Drake’s Indigenous Mind (Expanse)
The annual Winter Solstice concerts
Constellation, Chicago
November 25 - 27, 2022
Natural Information Society + Hamid Drake
Jazztopad Festival
Wroclaw, Poland
September 28, 2022
Moment to Moment collective
(Hamid Drake, Joshua Abrams, Lisa Alvarado, Michael Zerang, and Zahra Baker)
music + visual performance and after conversation
Constellation, Chicago
September 16 & 17, 2022
Guelph International Jazz Festival
Guelph, Canada
Natural Information Society + Ari Brown
September 18, 2022
Endless Summer Thunder
Union Pool, Brooklyn
Natural Information Society
Apr 6–Sept 5, 2022
Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
ARTnews
New York Times
The Art Newspaper
Burlington Contemporary
Artsy
July 30, 2022
Open Studio : Lisa Alvarado
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Natural Information Society performances
Morning & afternoon shows for children
+
Evening show for the blind/low vision
June 28 - August 5, 2022
Under Erasure
Martos Gallery, New York
Lisa Alvarado, Marcia Hafif, Arnold J Kemp, Sven Loven, Olivier Mosset, Ren Light Pan, Nicolas Roggy, Rafael Sánchez, Cullen Washingto, Kathleen White
July 18, 2022
Natural Information Society
Pitchfork Music Festival, Chicago
Vulture
Brooklyn Vegan
Natural Information Society tour
6/17 - Motvind Festivalen, Oslo, Norway
6/18 - Folkteatern, Göteborg, Sweden
6/20 - Cafe OTO, London, England
6/21 - Cafe OTO, London, England
6/22 - Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany
6/25 - Vision Festival, Roulette Intermedium, Brooklyn
(Joined by William Parker & Hamid Drake)
6/29 - Constellation, Chicago (NIS nonet + Ari Brown)
opening for Kurt Vile :
5/25 - First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN
5/26 - Turner Ballroom, Milwaukee, WI
5/27 - Thalia Hall, Chicago, IL
5/28 - Thalia Hall, Chicago, IL
5/29 - Thalia Hall, Chicago, IL
6/1 - Webster Hall, New York, NY
6/3 - Union Transfer, Philadelphia, PA
February 5 — March 27, 2022
File Under Freedom
Bergen Kunsthall, Norway
Lisa Alvarado, Eric Baudelaire, Olle Bonniér, Peter Brötzmann, Don Cherry, Moki Cherry, Alvin Curran, Douglas R. Ewart, Svein Finnerud, Milford Graves, Mats Gustafsson, Roscoe Mitchell, Thaddeus Mosley, Sidsel Paaske, Zak Prekop, Matana Roberts, Emilija Škarnulytė, Cauleen Smith, Ming Smith, Sun Ra, Marshall Trammell, Elena Wolay /Jazz Är Farligt
March 26, 2022
Big Ears Music Festival
Natural Information Society
Knoxville, Tennessee
March 19 & 20, 2022
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
+
Natural Information Society
Thalia Hall, Chicago
February 13, 2022
Sons d’hiver Music Festival
Natural Information Society
NIS joined by Moor Mother and Keir Neuringer
Paris, France
December 9 – 18, 2021
Sonia Louise Davis Selects
Exhibition and Sale to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts
Greene Naftali Gallery, NYC
Vogue Magazine
December 7, 2021
2021 Year End Lists
Natural Information Society w/ Evan Parker
descension (Out of Our Constrictions)
Eremite Records
#6 Washington Post - Best Music of 2021
# 2 Magnet Magazine - Best Jazz/Improv of 2021
Aquarium Drunkard 2021 Year in Review
#4 Wire UK - Bill Meyer’s 2021 Rewind list
December 4, 2021
Yo La Tengo Hanukkah Residency
Night 7 - Natural Information Society
Bowery Ballroom, New York
September 24 - 29, 2021
Natural Information Society tour
9.24
The National, Richmond VA
opening for Big Thief
9.26
Woodsist Festival, Accord, NY
w/ Hamid Drake & Ben Vida
9.27
Le Poisson Rouge, NYC
Joined by William Parker & Hamid Drake
9.28
Higher Ground, Burlington, VT
opening for Big Thief
9.29
Washington Street Baths, Portland, MA
September 3, 2021
Moki Cherry : Communicate, How?
Paintings and Tapestries, 1967 - 1980
Exhibition catalog
including a text by Lisa Alvarado
August 23, 2021
Preservation of Fire
Natural Information Society
Millennium Park, Chicago
May 27, 2021
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Virtual Graduation Commencement
Natural Information Society
April 30, 2021
Natural Information Society with Evan Parker
descension (Out of Our Constrictions)
2xLP
Eremite Records
liner notes by Theaster Gates
Pitchfork
Aquarium Drunkard
Chicago Reader
Washington Post
Wire UK
Point of Departure
Mojo Magazine
March 23, 2021
Art Sleeves: Album Covers by Artists
Rizzoli Books, New York
March 14, 2021
Chicago Takes 10
Hyde Park Jazz Festival
Joshua Abrams and Lisa Alvarado
February 26 - April 17, 2021
Lisa Alvarado
Scab Diagram
The Modern Institute, Glasgow
Texas Monthly
October 2, 2020 – January 21, 2021
Unflagging
Ballroom Marfa, Texas
Lisa Alvarado, Pia Camil, Jeffrey Gibson, Byron Kim, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Hank Willis Thomas, Naama Tsabar, Cecilia Vicuña
January 1, 2021
Album art and video for
Mind Maintenance
Drag City Records
July 17 – August 30, 2020
Lisa Alvarado
Thalweg
Bridget Donahue, New York
The New York Times
Contemporary Art Daily
Artforum
Artforum Diary
Art Observed
Arte Fuse
Art Agenda
Artnet News
July 9 - August 30, 2020
It Remains an Open Horizon
LC Queisser, Tbilisi
Co-curated by Marina Caron
Lisa Alvarado, Yto Barrada, Bettina, Kamau Brathwaite, Heidi Bucher, Alexandru Chira, Thea Djordjadze,
Andro Eradz, Karrabing Film Collective, Keto Logua, Brandon Ndife, Audrey Snyder
April 3 – May 15, 2020
Platform : New York
David Zwirner Gallery, Viewing Room
ArtNet News
March 26 - 29, 2020
Big Ears Music Festival
Natural Information Society
~POSTPONED~
March 24 + 25, 2020
Natural Information Society / Xylouris White
24th
The Bell House, Brooklyn, NY
25th
Ruba Club, Philadelphia
~POSTPONED~
Feburary 28 - March 2, 2020
Natural Information Society
Switzerland Tour
Feb 28
A Race in Space Festival, Luzern
Feb 29
Palace, St Gallen
Mar 1
Cave 12, Geneva
Mar 2
Church, Zurich
December 31, 2019
MANDATORY REALITY
Joshua Abrams and Natural Information Society
Eremite Records
#9 Wire Magazine uk best records 2019
#4 Wire Magazine uk best jazz/improv records 2019
#1 Magnet Magazine best of 2019
ARTnews the year in sound 2019
Aquarium Drunkard 2019 year in review
Downbeat top-rated albums of 2019
Stranded Records 10 favorite records 2019
Dusted best records of the decade
December 30, 2019
Natural Information Society
+
SLEEP
Thalia Hall, Chicago
October 5, 2019
Natural Information Society
Mandatory Reality
Moon Viewing Platform, Philadelphia
October 3 & 4, 2019
Natural Information Society
w/ Jim White
Union Pool residency, New York
BrooklynRail
October, 1, 2019
Aquarium Drunkard :: Decade / 2010-19
Joshua Abrams and Natural Information Society :: Simultonality
September 12 - 15, 2019
Contemporary Istanbul, Turkey
LC Queisser gallery booth
September 13, 2019
Carl Stone
+
Natural Information Society
Constellation, Chicago
Sant’Anna Arresi Jazz Festival
Sardinia, Italy
September 6 + 8, 2019
Exploding Star Orchestra
+
September 7, 2019
Natural Information Society
September 1, 2019
Natural Information Society
Les Siestes Electroniques Festival
Coimbra, Portugal
Natural Information Society
Cafe Oto, London, Residency
July 9, 2019
NIS joined by Evan Parker
+
July 8, 2019
NIS joined by Alexander Hawkins
Wire Magazine
July 4, 2019
Natural Information Society joined by Hamid Drake + Helge Sten
Kongsberg Jazz Festival, Norway
Natural Information Society
Summer Shows 2019
6/7
Union Pool, New York, (w/ Sachiko Kanenobu)
6/25
Natural Information Society + Bitchin Bajas, New Music Circle, St. Louis
6/28
MANDATORY REALITY record release show, Constellation, Chicago (NIS octet)
7/1
Roulette Intermedium, Brooklyn, (w/ 75 dollar bill)
7/4
Kongsberg Jazz Festival, Norway, (+ joined by Hamid Drake & Helge Sten)
7/7
Arkaoda, Berlin, (+ joined by Tony Buck, Magda Mayas, Theaster Gates)
7/8
Cafe Oto, London, (+ joined by Alexander Hawkins)
7/9
Cafe Oto, London, (+ joined by Evan Parker)
7/10
Copenhagen Jazz Festival
7/13
Ok La Festival, Montreal
7/21
Hideout, Chicago, (w/ Marisa Anderson & Jim White)
8/24
Transfiguration III Festival, Wortham Center for the Performing Arts, Asheville, (w/ Bonnie Prince Billy)
8/30
Festival Baignade Interdite, Toulouse, France
8/31
Rendez-vous de l'Erdre Festival, Nantes, France
7/1
Les Siestes Electroniques Festival, Coimbra, Portugal
7/2
Pardon Tu Tu, Warsaw, Poland
7/7
Sant’Anna Arresi Jazz Festival, Sardinia, Italy
August, 2019
Lisa Alvarado
ESS (Experimental Sound Studio) Artist Edition Tee 2019
May 21, 2019
Endless Shout, Paperback
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
May 24 - June 23, 2019
Psychedelic Healing Center
Essex Flowers, NYC
May 17 - 19, 2019
Tbilisi Art Fair
LC Queisser, Tbilisi, booth
Cool Hunting
May 2–May 5, 2019
Frieze New York
Lisa Alvarado
Booth C02
Bridget Donahue, New York & LC Queisser, Tbilisi
The New York Times
Frieze Magazine
FRIEZE × RAY JOHNSON PROJECT
Lisa Alvarado + Ray Johnson
March 14 – May 14, 2019
80 Washington Square East Gallery
New York
+
May 2– 5, 2019
Frieze New York
Randall’s Island Park
April 12, 2019
Mandatory Reality
Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society
Double album, (2xLP - 2xCD), silkscreened covers
Eremite Records
New York Times
Pitchfork
Washington Post
Aquarium Drunkard
The Wire
Bomb Magazine
Tiny Mixtapes
Chicago Reader
Artnews
March 7, 2019
Natural Information Society
Art Institute of Chicago
W/ Body/Head - Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth) and Bill Nace
Magnet Magazine
Natural Information Society
March 2019 ~ Europe Tour
9 - Trafo, Budapest, Hungary
12 - Cankerjev Dom, Ljubljana, Slovenia
13 - Bad Bonn, Dudingen, Switzerland
14 - Taklos Festival, Zurich, Switzerland
15 - Le Bourg, Lausanne, Switzerland
16 - TBA, Siena, Itay
17 - Caos, Terni, Italy
18 - Santeria Social Club, Milano, Italy
19 - Dobia Lab, Staranzano, Italy
20 - A4, Bratislava, Slovakia
23 - Beyond the Gate, Bohemian National Cemetery, Chicago
The Inner Sleeve :
Lisa Alvarado on Moki Cherry
The Wire Magazine UK
March 2019 issue
February 20, 2019
Theaster Gates’s Black Monks performance
Palais De Tokyo, Paris
October 13 - January 12th, 2019
Lisa Alvarado
Polyphonic Shadow Cloth
LC Queisser, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia
Frieze Magazine
Hammock Magazine 1
Hammock Magazine 2
January 11, 2019
Natural Information Society
NYC Winter Jazzfest
New York Times
Friday July 20, 2018
Natural Information Society
Pitchfork Music Festival
Chicago Reader
New York Times Fashion
Out of Easy Reach
April 27 - August 5, 2018
Gallery 400, UIC, Chicago
+
August 24 - November 14, 2018
Grunwald Gallery, Indiana University
Artforum
Hyperallergic
book
Excavations 1
Joshua Abrams solo bass
Feeding Tube Records
Natural Information Society
Spring 2018 Shows & Europe tour
27th March - Blow Out Series, Oslo
28th March - Folkteatern, Gotemborg
29th March - Inkonst, Malmo
30th March - Cortisone Festival, Ghent
31st March - MK Gallery, Milton Keynes
2nd April - Oslo, London
3 April - Cologne, Statgarten
4th April - Bim Huis, Amsterdam
5th April - Brdcst Festival, Brussels
6th April - Rewire Festival, Den Haag
7th April - Arkaoda, Berlin
9th April - Banlieues Bleues Festival, Paris
11th April - Alice, Copenhagen
12th April - Atlas, Aarhus
13th April - Danish Vaishyas, Alborg
14th April - Momentum, Odense
21 April - Hideout, Chicago,
w/ Steve Gunn and John Truscinski
April 22 - Storehouse, Michigan,
w/ Steve Gunn and John Truscinski
January 5 – February 24, 2018
Alan Shields Project
Van Doren Waxter, New York
The New Yorker
Natural Information Society
February 5, 2018
The Chapel, San Francisco
+
February, 7, 2018
Zebulon, Los Angeles
January 1, 2018
Natural Information Society
Simultonality, eremite records
#7
The Wire Magazine 50 Best Albums of 2017
#15
Uncut Magazine 75 Best Albums of 2017
#17
Rolling Stone Magazine Best Avant Albums of 2017
#2
John Mulvey’s 150 Best Albums 2017
November 17 - January 20, 2018
Lisa Alvarado, Alex Olson, Daniel Sinsel
Mary Mary Gallery, Glasgow
December 22, 2017
Hamid Drake and Michael Zerang’s 28th Annual Solstice Concerts
Hamid Drake: Music / Movement
Constellation, Chicago
November 30, 2017
Simon Starling lecture with Natural Information Society
Arts and the Nuclear Age lecture series
Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago
September 22 – November 17, 2017
Rare Earth, Organized by Theaster Gates
Exhibition soundscape by
Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society
Chicago Architecture Biennial
November 5, 2017
Natural Information Society
May Chapel at Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago
+
Subterranean, Chicago
with Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth)
June 9, 2017
Natural Information Society
Record Release show for Simultonality
Eremite Records
Constellation, Chicago
March 26 - May 21, 2017
Lisa Alvarado
Sound Talisman
Bridget Donahue, New York
Performances by Lisa Alvarado, Joshua Abrams, Chad Taylor + White Magic
+ William Parker + Natural Information Society + Carlos Blackburn
+ Angelica Sanchez, Gerald Cleaver, Joshua Abrams + Battle Trance
New York Times
Mousse Magazine
Brooklyn Rail
New York Magazine
New Yorker
Vulture
Ravelin Magazine
Art in America
May 6, 2017
Natural Information Society
Nogueira da Silva Museum/GNRation
Braga, Portugal
May 5, 2017
Natural Information Society
Salão Brazil, Coimbra, Portugal
May 3, 2017
Natural Information Society
Teatro Maria Matos, Lisboa, Portugal
April 30, 2017
Natural Information Society
Kaleidophon Festival, Ulrichsberg, Austria
April 28, 2017
Natural Information Society
Centro D’Arte, Padua, Italy
April 26, 2017
Natural Information Society
Stanser Musitage Festival, Stans, Switzerland
March 19, 2017
Natural Information Society
Endless Shout
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
September 13 - March 19, 2017
The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
Feburary 2, 2017
Art Record Covers,
Taschen books, Cologne
October 14 - January 15, 2017
Simon Starling’s At Twilight: A Play for two actors, three musicians, one dancer, eight masks (and a donkey costume)
Natural Information Society collaboration
Japan Society, New York
At Twilight/publication published by The Common Guild, Japan Society, New York and Dent-de-Leone
January 10, 2017
Natural Information Society
A Reflection
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
November 1 - 29, 2016
Natural Information Society residency
The Hideout, Chicago
July 2 - September 4, 2016
Simon Starling’s
At Twilight: A Play for two actors, three musicians,
one dancer, eight masks (and a donkey costume)
Natural Information Society collaboration
The Common Guild, Glasgow, UK
July 1 - September 25, 2016
Material Issue
KMAC Museum, Louisville
June 12 - July 10, 2016
Messages in the Street, Chicago
June 1 - June 5, 2016
Serralves em Festa
NIS joined by Angélica Salvi, Gustavo Costa, João Pais Filipe,
Norberto Lobo and Yam Tembe
Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
(performance in a Giorgio Griffa exhibition)
June 6, 2016
Natural Information Society with Norberto Lobo
Galeria ze Dos Bois, Lisboa, Portugal
June 17, 2016
Natural Information Society with Evan Parker
Cafe Oto, London
June 12, 2016
Natural Information Society
Mona Bismarck American Center, Paris, France
May 31, 2016
Natural Information Society
Cave12, Geneva, Switzerland
May 28, 2016
Natural Information Society
Obey Convention IX festival
Halifax, Canada
May 10, 2016
Theaster Gates and T he Black Monks of Mississippi
The Black Monastic residency publication
Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
May 2, 2016
Lisa Alvarado
Snake Drinks Water Makes Poison
The Wire Magazine UK
Limited edition Tee
April 28 and May 4, 2016
Natural Information Society
Doek Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
March 11, 2016
Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas
Levitation Festival, Thalia Hall, Chicago
February 26, 2016
Natural Information Society
Intention To Know: The Thought Forms of Annie Besant
Stony Island Arts Bank, Chicago
December 20, 2015
Magnetoception
Joshua Abrams and Natural Information Society
Eremite Records
#2 Pitchfork‘s Best Experimental Albums of 2015
#3 The Wire UK‘s Top 50 Releases of 2015
July 11 - November 22, 2015
The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
curated by Naomi Beckwith and Dieter Roelstraete
The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now
Book, MCA Chicago and the University of Chicago Press
September, 2015
Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas
Automaginary
vinyl, cass, mp3
silk-screened covers,
Drag City Records
April 4 - May 30, 2015
Imaginary Landscapes
Mana Contemporary, Chicago
May 15, 2015
Natural Information Society with Hamid Drake
31e Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville, Canada
May 10, 2015
Natural Information Society
Union Pool, New York
April 26, 2015
Natural Information Society
Haiku Festival, Area Sismica, Forli, Italy
April 25, 2015
Natural Information Society
Hybrida Space, Villa Moretti, Tarcento, Italy
April 24, 2015
Natural Information Society
Kulturno Prireditveni Center Narodni Dom
Maribor, Sovenia
April 24, 2015
Natural Information Society
Kulturana, Warsaw, Poland
April 16, 2015
Natural Information Society
Mother at Fylkingen No.24
Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden
April 15, 2015
Natural Information Society
Jazzhouse, Copenhagen, Denmark
April 11, 2015
Natural Information Society
Sound in Motion, Muziekcentrum Trix
Antwerp, Belgium