Past Events

In honor of Tony Conrad, Los Angeles based filmmaker, photographer, and documentarian Tyler Hubby has been invited by ISSUE to share selections from his archive featuring many never-before-seen performance and interview videos, including three ISSUE Project Room performances.

Adopting the old newsreel/serial/feature film format and staged in the meeting-house-­like setting of the Sunview Luncheonette, ABIGAIL HOBBS explores subjugation and its remedy, from Salem Village to the Port Haven Psychiatric Facility, through live multichannel sound improvisation, projection+ historical reenactment.

Celebrated pianist Chris Abrahams appears in a rare New York solo performance at ISSUE Project Room’s 22 Boerum Place theater. Perhaps best known as the piano player with the long form trio the Necks, Abrahams' music explores the resonating properties of the vibrating piano string.

A collaborative presentation of ISSUE & Pioneer Works’ Artist-In-Residence programs, Clear Night is a series of related but distinct performances in which dancers deploy a variety of movement systems to proliferate tones, surfaces, and landscapes. A different work will be presented for 8 continuous days.

ISSUE co-­presents installations and performances at Ende Tymes VI on Thursday, June 2nd at Knockdown Center. The festival's opening night features a reception for installations followed by performances from J​ason Lescalleet, 5chimpfluch Grupp3, Heat Identity, KILT, Hive Mind, and Aki Onda.

Japanese-American artist, writer, theorist, and composer Yasunao Tone presents new work embracing artificial intelligence (AI). Tone has collaborated with Prof Tony Myatt, University of Surrey UK, and a team of researchers including Mark Fell and Dr. Paul Modler, with the support of ISSUE Project Room.

For her third and final show as an ISSUE Artist-in-Residence, Lea Bertucci will premiere new works for voice, tape and electronics at ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Theater.

Saturday, June 18th, at 7pm, ISSUE Project Room presents the latest in the TONGUES series, bringing Indian traditional music outside of cultural enclaves and into a unique context for listening to experimental and improvised music.

L. GRAY and T. THAYER Present: AN EVACUATION MUSIC

Lee Ranaldo and Leah Singer perform Sight Unseen on June 30th, with installation hours on July 1st and 2nd. The duo have worked together since 1991 with film and music in a live setting, engaging in performances that explore how sound and image interact, with elements of chance embraced.

ISSUE Project Room and Pioneer Works are pleased to present a summer marathon performance on July 30th with Daniel Menche, Container, MV Carbon, Eartheater, Greg Fox, Ben Vida, and Horse Lords live in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Focusing mainly on the combination of Joe McPhee's pocket trumpet and Peter Evans' piccolo trumpet, the pair explores a universe of sound with tiny instruments; noise, melody and silence weave together in an intense yet unhurried conversation Saturday, August 13th at 8pm at ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Place theater.