ISSUE is pleased to welcome back the enigmatic Jandek, the musical project of Corwood Industries, to Brooklyn. Jandek has performed in ISSUE’s previous locations in the Gowanus Silo and the courtyard of the Old American Can Factory. This marks Jandek's first performance at ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Theater.
Light and color improviser Lindsay Packer premieres her third commissioned work as a 2019 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence. In Call and Response: ECHOLOCATION, Packer collaborates with Alex Nathanson and Dylan Neely of Fan Letters in a nonlinear feedback loop of analog/digital chain reactions.
ISSUE has invited musician Beverly Glenn-Copeland for an intimate artist talk, documentary screening, and short performance, accessible exclusively to ISSUE Members and all who support ISSUE during our Year-End Campaign.
Charmaine Lee presents her third and final work as a 2019 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence, Laminals III, the last of three movements of a new long-form piece for solo voice. The evening concludes with a trio of improvised music featuring Tyshawn Sorey (percussion) and Ikue Mori (laptop).
ISSUE welcomes pioneering French composers Beatriz Ferreyra & Christine Groult, presenting new solo and collaborative work. The evening marks an exceptionally rare opportunity to hear the work of two major figures in the development of musique concrète, electroacoustic, and acousmatic music.
Rena Anakwe presents the final work of her 2019 ISSUE residency with the premiere of Ogwu (the healing), an immersive purification ritual inspired by the element of fire, staged in collaboration with lighting designer Kelley Shih.
FOR/WITH concludes with a solo trumpet premiere composed for Nate Wooley by Sarah Hennies, followed by von da nach da by Eva-Maria Houben performed by Sara Schoenbeck, Mariel Roberts, and Russell Greenberg. The festival concludes with an ensemble performance of Sarah Hennies' Fleas
The first evening of FOR/WITH, a mini-festival featuring commissions and works by iconoclast composers Eva-Maria Houben, Katherine Young, and Ryoko Akama. Now in its third year, the series celebrates the collaborative process between performer and composer.
ISSUE is thrilled to present an epic, career-spanning durational performance by longtime friend William Basinski. Taking place at ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Theater from 6pm until 2am, Basinski takes listeners through a marathon sequence of past, recent, and new work featuring light artists Seth Kirby & Brock Monroe.
American poet & painter Christopher Knowles reads new poetry and plays vinyl records. Knowles’s performance departs from an art practice broader than any classification suggests -- spanning text, sound, painting & sculpture. Choreographer/performer Will Rawls also presents a new iteration of his Cursor project.
ISSUE presents an expansive gathering of NYC artists working across disciplines. Leila Bordreuil and Lee Ranaldo debut an improvised duet, and are then joined by Stephan Moore. Asha Sheshadri stages a new iteration of her essayistic performance practice and The New York Review of Cocksucking also perform.
New York’s long-running creative music ensemble Ne(x)tworks presents its final performance. The career-spanning program nods in many of the directions explored since the group’s first concert in June 2003, showcasing graphic and hybrid scores that expose the conceptual root elements of the Ne(x)tworks project.