ISSUE Project Room is delighted to honor renowned artist and ISSUE Board member Robert Longo and ISSUE’s beloved late founder Suzanne Fiol . This year’s event celebrates two artists who envisioned ISSUE from its earliest years, bringing a unique perspective to New York’s avant-garde performance landscape.
Performed at ISSUE's 2019 Gala, OVER WATER is the debut performance between 2019 Artist-In-Residence Rena Anakwe alongside ISSUE Art Advisory Council member Elliott Sharp and media artist Janene Higgins.
ISSUE Project Room's Littoral series continues with Susan Daitch, Amy Hempel, and Jim Shepard. Plus musical guest Elliot Sharp.
The third year of Floating Points Festival (formerly Points in a Circle) explores the versatility of ISSUE Project Room’s innovative house speaker system, designed by Stephan Moore.
ISSUE Project Room presents video art by Anne Rothshild, graphic art by Maria Isabel Gouverneur and music by Syntax Error. With special guests Elliott Sharp and Eric Bogosian.
ISSUE Project Room presents Elliott Sharp with Joey Baron, Bruno Chevillon, and Frank Hums de Terre and a collaboration with French turntablist-guitarist Franck Vigroux and Elliott Sharp.
Elliott Sharp performs Octal followed by a performance of SyndaKit by All-String Orchestra Carbon.
An evening of contemporary music for multiple electric guitars. Conceived and curated by composer Dan Joseph, the program explores the growing repertoire of multiple electric guitar compositions with works by a diverse group of composers spanning three generations.
Elliott Sharp performs his piece "Octal:Book Two" for solo 8-string guitarbass. Orchestra Carbon also performs Elliott Sharp's "SyndaKit."
Actor, director, and writer Steve Buscemi and composer/multi-instrumentalist Elliott Sharp return to present excerpts of their collaboration "Rub Out The Word." The evening also features a new collaboration between current ISSUE Artist-in-Residence, Cecilia Corrigan and past AIR James Ilgenfritz.
A newly commissioned opera by Elliott Sharp depicts the final moments of philosopher Walter Benjamin’s life in Port-Bou at the French-Spanish border as he flees Nazi-occupied France. Bass/baritone Nicholas Isherwood stars with pianist Jenny Lin, accordionist William Schimmel, and electro-acoustic backgrounds by Sharp.
ISSUE and WSB100 present a celebration of the legacy of William S. Burroughs during the 100th anniversary of the writer's birth. Actor, director, and writer Steve Buscemi and composer/multi-instrumentalist Elliott Sharp collaborate, creating a collage of sound and words from texts by William Burroughs.