Past Events

ISSUE Project Room's Fall 2016 season opens at the First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn Heights with Oren Ambarchi solo, and a duo set by Zeena Parkins & Brian Chase. Known for his deft and exploratory instrumental approaches, Ambarchi has been a central driver of extended sonic investigation.

Leila Bordreuil opens her 2016 Residency with the premiere of Piece for Cello and Double Bass Ensemble. A new work, the piece overly amplifies all instruments in order to make corporal micro-gestures and hushed overtones audible to the human ear.

Actor, director, and writer Steve Buscemi and composer/multi-instrumentalist Elliott Sharp return to present excerpts of their collaboration "Rub Out The Word." The evening also features a new collaboration between current ISSUE Artist-in-Residence, Cecilia Corrigan and past AIR James Ilgenfritz.

Restless Books, BOMB Magazine, and ISSUE present Cuba's bestselling science fiction author Yoss -- its most notorious literary rocker: He’s the lead singer and harmonicist for the Havana death metal band Tenaz. The event will begin with a discussion of the Cuban literary and metal scenes, followed by a performance.

Co-produced by Julie Martin and Fridman Gallery, in association with ISSUE, and curated by Julie Martin, Regine Basha, and Daniel Neumann, 9 Evenings + 50 presents three generations of composers and performers. The series celebrates the 50th anniversary of 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering.

In October 1966, Experiments in Art and Technology produced a series of legendary performances, 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering, at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York. The films of each performance, produced by Billy Klüver and Julie Martin, are rarely-seen archival documents reconstructing this historic event.

Pioneering experimental composer Morton Subotnick premieres a new collaboration with Berlin-based video artist, Lillevan. The duo of composer and turntable artist Marina Rosenfeld and analog synth innovator Ben Vida reprise their improvisational collaboration first presented during Vida’s 2013 ISSUE residency.

LoVid present a new performance work based on their ongoing project “Reaction Bubble,” using homemade electronics, analogue video, audio-visual synthesizers, and ceramics. Andy Lampert premieres a new video performance focused on the culture of corporate technology, ownership, registration, royalties and patents.

James Fei and Laetitia Sonami’s improvisational collaboration employs tactile interfaces and electronic systems that exhibit complex behavioral responses. Thomas Dexter presents a site-specific performance using 16mm projectors as instruments.

Revisiting 9 Evenings, and exploring digital technologies and interactive design today, this symposium at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering gathers artists, engineers, cultural producers, scientists, scholars, and creative coders who advocate for the creative exploration of networks.

Ed Bear performs a newly-commissioned interpretation of John Cage’s infamous "Variations VII.” First performed at “9 Evenings” (1966), the stochastic piece included only technologically-produced or electrically-amplified sound from a variety of sources, transmitted or picked up live in the performance space.

Due to popular and terrifying demand, Cecilia Corrigan returns to the ISSUE ballroom Oct 8th. Serving as Corrigan's yearly reminder of her eventual decay and death, the evening anticipates the premiere of Motherland, a theatre and video-based narrative exploring the American electorate's psychotic mommy issues.