ISSUE is pleased to present the premiere East Coast performance of French composer Pascale Criton’s Sounding Limits series of compositions, two of which were co-authored in close collaboration with Silvia Tarozzi (violin) and Deborah Walker (cello), and features the first collaborative transference of Walker’s co-authored piece, to be performed by renowned cellist Judith Hamann.
Media
ISSUE has a significant archive of performance documentation that represents both an important link to the past, and a future resource for artists and audiences. ISSUE’s public media archive is a consistently updated and freely accessible collection of video and audio documentation from recent and past ISSUE performances. Currently, ISSUE is in the process of digitizing historical documentation from its former homes at The Old American Can Factory and silo space in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Regular updates feature newly published materials within ISSUE’s constantly expanding performance history.
Serge Modular 50th Anniversary: Dani Dobkin
Friday, February 17th at 8pm ET, ISSUE is pleased to present sound artist, composer, and educator Dani Dobkin presenting new work specifically for the Serge Modular synthesizer.
C. Spencer Yeh & Kwami Winfield
ISSUE opens its 2023 season with an expansive gathering of improvising musicians with idiomatic approaches traversing guitar, percussion, voice, violin, trumpet, electronics, and more.
Linda Mary Montano: An Interactive Life and Maybe No Art Experience with Laurie Berg, Kim Brandt, Yanira Castro & Tatyana Tenenbaum
ISSUE & The Chocolate Factory Theater present legendary performance artist Linda Mary Montano hosting a series of “interactions."
Identity Pitches: Stine Janvin & Cory Arcangel with String Noise
ISSUE and Primary Information are pleased to present the NYC premiere of Identity Pitches at Flamboyán Theater at The Clemente in the Lower East Side. In Identity Pitches, Stine Janvin and Cory Arcangel will debut performances of scores and an audiovisual performance based on the knitting patterns for traditional Norwegian sweaters known as Lusekofte.
Rena Anakwe
Thursday, December 8th, 8pm ET, ISSUE is thrilled to welcome back interdisciplinary artist, performer, and 2019 Artist-In-Residence Rena Anakwe performs a new piece entitled “For The Weary.”
Sydney Spann & Kiera Mulhern
Sound artist and musician Sydney Spann presents their final presentation as an ISSUE Artist-In-Residence with a live performance alongside poet and musician Kiera Mulhern at MITU580 in Gowanus, Brooklyn
THE BODY POPULAR: I, OF COURSE, WAS LIVID
2022 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow Theodore Kerr + Housing Works & What Would an HIV Doula Do?, present I, OF COURSE, WAS LIVID. The performance features testimony that women living with HIV provided the CDC as part of the activism done to pressure the US government to create a more inclusive definition of AIDs.
Tatyana Tenenbaum: Garment of the Interior
Choreographer and composer Tatyana Tenenbaum continues her 2022 ISSUE residency with Garment of the Interior, a first public sharing of a new project that emerges from a decade of research into the continuum between voice and movement.
Dion TYGAPAW McKenzie: Devil Woman (Obeah Woman) Part 3
Saturday, November 12th at 8pm ET, at The Queens Museum, Dion TYGAPAW McKenzie presents their third and final work in progress presentation of Devil Woman (Obeah Woman). The piece is an opera in three parts developed as a 2022 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence.
Bergsonist: As If Reality?
ISSUE in partnership with Harvestworks and Center for Performance Research is pleased to present As If Reality?, a new work from multi-disciplinary artist, musician, designer and 2022 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Selwa Abd (Bergsonist).
Distant Pairs: Lucy Railton & Max Eilbacher - Indifferent Rocks are Rearranged into a Dam (Remote Recording)
ISSUE is pleased to invite Members to a reception and presentation of the first ever collaborative piece between cellist and composer Lucy Railton and intermedia artist Max Eilbacher. The installation of the commissioned collaboration will be presented at Fridman Gallery in the Lower East Side.
Distant Pairs: James Fei & Yan Jun - 螺层 (Gyration)
ISSUE is pleased to stream a new collaboration between Oakland, California-based composer, synthesist, saxophonist and electronic musician James Fei and Chinese musician and poet Yan Jun, who is based in Beijing.
Distant Pairs: Delia Beatriz (DEBIT) & Flora Yin Wong
ISSUE is pleased to stream the debut collaborative presentation between New York-based producer and composer Delia Beatriz (DEBIT) and London-based sound artist and writer Flora Yin Wong. This commissioned work will be the first ever collaboration between these two artists.