ISSUE is pleased to present Metanoia, a work-in-progress solo performance at 22 Boerum Pl. by 2025 Artist-In-Residence Qiujiang Levi Lu (卢秋江). Using geophone sensors, a customized in-mouth speaker, feedback, body drumming, choreographed movements, and interactive light installations, the piece amplifies and externalizes what is otherwise unseen and unheard.
2025 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow Kenneth Jiménez will present his first program, Dormir, Enlaces, exploring the potentiality of sound through oneiric photography by Emiliano Zúñiga Hernández.
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. ISSUE presents new projects by NYC-based sound artist and musician Sydney Spann featuring Kiera Mulhern & Duncan Moore, and Berlin-based vocalist Audrey Chen.
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. ISSUE presents “Arrow & Synchronicity” by French multidisciplinary artist Annabelle Playe. The evening will conclude with a panel conversation moderated by writer-researcher Sami Hopkins featuring artists Audrey Chen, crys cole, and Annea Lockwood.
ISSUE invites composer Beth Anderson to host a workshop at 22 Boerum Pl. as part of ongoing activations of the With Womens Work Series. This event is part of a set of performances, talks, and screenings that reengage the series first offered as digital commissions at ISSUE in 2021, where several participating artists drew inspiration from Anderson’s scores.
2025 Artist-In-Residence Jackson-Pratt’s first commission, The Microscope’s Slide: Live Painting Music No. 8 (for T.M.), is a multichannel performance piece using microphonic electronics and reactive canvas.
ISSUE invites audiences to the 22 Boerum Pl. theater to experience new projects by multidisciplinary artists Leila Hassan and Selwa Abd (Bergsonist).
Building on their 2021 digital commission as part of ISSUE’s Distant Pairs series, Sofia Jernberg and Tomeka Reid reunite for ISSUE's 2025 Winter Season Opening concert, live at Brooklyn Music School. This event showcases Jernberg and Reid in a unique quartet, joined by NYC-based pianist Craig Taborn and Norwegian bassist Ole Morten Vågan.
ISSUE closes the 2024 Season with long overdue live performances by multidisciplinary artist and musician–belonging to the Pakajaqi nation of Aymara people–Chuquimamani-Condori, and Brooklyn-based vocalist and producer Embaci. The year-end event marks both artists’ return to ISSUE after postponement of events during the COVID-19 pandemic and each artist’s digital commissions during 2021.
Co-presented by ISSUE and The Emily Harvey Foundation, 2024 Artist-In-Residence Axine M presents her culminating commission "Control Scheme," songs and improvisations for computer-extended fretless guitar and voice.
ISSUE presents the culminating commission from 2024 Artist-In-Residence Katie Porter. The composer/clarinetist presents three ongoing collaborations with artists Patricia Alessandrini, Katherine Liberovskaya, and anne penders.
2024 Artist-In-Residence Joni's Surge project builds to its conclusion, reworking recordings taken during surgeries by her doctors - per her request - and reinterprets the material to create an entirely new “body” of sound.
Using audio reactive instruments, Kwami Winfield will generate and influence sound and light across the reverberant cavern at ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Pl. for her culminating commission as a 2024 Artist-In-Residence.
