ISSUE is pleased to offer Members a new limited edition Mixtape by Brooklyn-based vocalist and producer Embaci, our fourth physical Mixtape with digital download. The tape features remixes by Nidia Minaj, and Ashanti, acapellas by Missy Elliot, and features from Air Max '97, E+E, and more, plus a J-Card designed by the artist.
ISSUE Member Mixtape 003: Cory Arcangel
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ISSUE is pleased to offer Members a new limited edition Mixtape by multimedia artist Cory Arcangel, our third physical Mixtape. The tape features an unreleased recording of NYARTIST (2019). For the project, Arcangel composed an algorithmic score for pipe organ—located at nyartist.coryarcangel.com—and an iteration of this score was recorded by organist Hampus Lindwall. For this Mixtape, the pipe organ piece is surrounded by EDM tracks by Zoie Makes Noise, Xentia, DemonDubz & Crysus, Comasleep, and more.
ISSUE Member Mixtape 002: Lizzi Bougatsos
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ISSUE's second Mixtape is by sound artist Lizzi Bougatsos. The tape is issued in a limited cassette edition and features Lonnie Holley, Louis Farrakhan's eulogy to Dick Gregory, new unreleased music from her band Gang Gang Dance recorded specifically for this tape, and others + a J-Card designed by the artist.
EVERYTHING MUST GO! MORE EAZE
2023 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow evil dentist (Alice Gerlach and David Farrow) present “everything must go!,” a durational office space performance featuring performances by Cal Fish and More Eaze. This is their second program in Corporate Retreat, a curated series of performances appropriating the banality of office space to reimagine the relationship between artistic practice and community building.
EVERYTHING MUST GO! CAL FISH
2023 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow evil dentist (Alice Gerlach and David Farrow) present “everything must go!,” a durational office space performance featuring performances by Cal Fish and More Eaze. This is their second program in Corporate Retreat, a curated series of performances appropriating the banality of office space to reimagine the relationship between artistic practice and community building.
JEAN CARLA RODEA: ALL YOUR SOJOURNS HAVE LED TO THIS (CONTINUUM)
ISSUE in partnership with Smack Mellon is pleased to present All Your Sojourns Have Led to This (Continuum), the next commissioned work in interdisciplinary artist and 2023 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Jean Carla Rodea’s ongoing project.
ISSUE Project Room 2023 Gala - Sold Out!
In Fall 2023, ISSUE Project Room celebrates its 20 year anniversary with a series of commissioned programs, orbiting around our annual Gala and affiliated Benefit events.
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75 Dollar Bill: Little Big Band + Duo
ISSUE is pleased to present a special outdoor performance featuring Che Chen and Rick Brown’s celebrated duo 75 Dollar Bill performing in both their “little big band” ensemble format and in duo formation. The event marks the 10 year anniversary of 75 Dollar Bill’s first appearance at ISSUE.
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Rocket Science (Peter Evans, Ikue Mori, Sam Pluta, Craig Taborn)
ISSUE is pleased to present a rare performance from Rocket Science, a collaborative improvising ensemble formed in 2012. Initially composed of Evan Parker, Peter Evans, Sam Pluta, and Craig Taborn, the group has expanded on occasion to include Ikue Mori on live electronics.
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LEILA BORDREUIL & LUKE STEWART: NEW WORKS FOR FEEDBACK ENSEMBLE - CHRIS CORSANO, JULIA SANTOLI, NINA GARCIA, NATE WOOLEY, C. SPENCER YEH
ISSUE is pleased to present new works from cellist, composer and sound-artist Leila Bordreuil and DC/NYC-based musician and organizer Luke Stewart’s Feedback Ensemble, a raucous group of musicians utilizing their own feedback apparatuses—in addition to their instruments—to explore graphic scores, sound, noise, and improvisation. Centering techniques of sonic feedback generation within instrumental practice, the notated compositions will emerge through a radically collaborative process, in which performers co-create the works.