ISSUE offers year-round opportunities for experimental artists to develop and present challenging new works through residencies and commissioning opportunities.
ISSUE Project Room is pleased to announce the selection of interdisciplinary artists Axine M, Joni, Katie Porter and Kwami Winfield as Artists-In-Residence presenting new works in the 2024 season.
ISSUE Project Room is pleased to announce the selection of Lina Azalea Dahbour as 2024 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow. Next year, the artist will present Blind Date, a series of performances that bring together unlikely pairs of musicians and dancers.
ISSUE is pleased to present Surge: Intricate Things and Dangerous Tools (previously "Performance #1"), the first commission from 2024 Artist-In-Residence Joni. The artist will present work-in-progress showings and new compositions of incredibly revealing, intimate and visceral sound work, alongside new ceramic pieces.
2024 Artist-In-Residence Axine M presents her first commission Adriana, a multichannel piece for voice, sampled corpus, and machine.
ISSUE is pleased to present Malosma / 18 Flowers in a Row, the first commission from 2024 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Katie Porter. The clarinetist and composer presents new chamber music works inspired by microcosms and macrocosms of change: both in our personal narratives and the world around us.
Just a few days before Valentine’s Day, 2024 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow and interdisciplinary artist Lina Azalea Dahbour presents the first program in her “Blind Date” series—Tiny Conversation Hearts.
ISSUE Project Room is pleased to announce the selection of interdisciplinary artists Axine M, Joni, Katie Porter and Kwami Winfield as Artists-In-Residence presenting new works in the 2024 season.
ISSUE is pleased to present the third iteration of Solve et Coagula → عيب from 2023 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence BINT. The project builds to its conclusion with a final work premiering at NYU Brooklyn’s “The Garage” space.
ISSUE is pleased to present a final performance from 2023 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Keke Hunt (Just The Right Height). Hunt’s live set builds upon the ongoing project with collaborator Ben Mendelewicz utilizing motion capture data recorded with choreographer Charlton Diaz, and 3D avatar backup dancers designed by Shahan Assadourian and Mendelewicz.
ISSUE Project Room is pleased to announce the selection of Lina Azalea Dahbour as 2024 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow. Next year, the artist will present Blind Date, a series of performances that bring together unlikely pairs of musicians and dancers.
ISSUE is pleased to present All Your Sojourns Have Led to This (Omen), the culminating commission from 2023 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Jean Carla Rodea.
ISSUE celebrates the exact day of the organization’s 20th Anniversary with yours in dentistry, a specially produced final program from 2023 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow evil dentist (Alice Gerlach & David Farrow). This culminating Fellowship project brings together artists blurring the boundaries between life/work and art/work.
This Fall marks ISSUE Project Room’s 20th Anniversary to be celebrated with a series of commissioned programs, orbiting around our annual Gala and affiliated Benefit events. Between Friday, September 29th and Saturday, Nov 4th, ISSUE invites audiences to experience a special series of twenty limited-capacity programs including new commissions and restaging of programs specifically designed for ISSUE’s unique environment.
Interdisciplinary artist and musician BINT presents her second program as an ISSUE Artist-In-Residence. This next iteration of "عيب:Solve et Coagula" will be co-presented at CPR – Center for Performance Research in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Over the course of the year, she will be presenting three commissioned programs mirroring the primary stages of (Arabic) alchemical transmutation.