Past Events

ISSUE's fall season opens with legendary experimental jazz artist Milford Graves, performing with renowned multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily. The evening also features a performance by composer and artist Marina Rosenfeld, as well as improvising vocalist Charmaine Lee. Join as an ISSUE Member for a free ticket!

James K premieres Venomist Choir, a piece exploring how voice, and more specifically the mouth, operates as a subversive architecture, vessel, & stage. The piece is an electroacoustic composition & multimedia choreography embedded within an official New York Fashion Week show by art/fashion imprint Lou Dallas.

ISSUE is thrilled to present celebrated performance artist Karen Finley. Since the early 1980's, Finley has become synonymous with performance art. She has long provoked controversy through her subversive depictions of human sexuality, and and her unique performative responses to oppression in culture and politics.

Legendary composer-performer Charlemagne Palestine performs alongside stalwart NYC poet Steve Dalachinsky as a part of the the 2018 Brooklyn Book Festival, co-presented with BOMB Magazine. Interdisciplinary artist Dawn Kasper opens the evening, enacting part two of a new improvisation titled A, B, C : 0, 1, 2, 3.

ISSUE and Brooklyn-based music institution RVNG Intl. present Phantom Kino Ballett, an audiovisual drama by renowned German producer Lena Willikens and multidisciplinary artist Sarah Szczesny. The evening also features artist and composer Jules Gimbrone presenting "Invisible Objects," an in-process work.

For their third presentation as Suzanne Fiol 2018 Curatorial Fellows, Queer Trash presents an auspicious meeting of bright, queer minds showcasing the myriad ways that queers make sound, make sound queer, or skim around terms that may attempt to contain queer life.

ISSUE is pleased to present the premiere of Episodes et Mutations, an immersive performance + light installation by Leila Bordreuil & Doron Sadja. The performance is presented as a part of the French Institute Alliance Française’s Crossing The Line Festival and is performed by celebrated ensemble Mivos quartet.

ISSUE welcomes back Ashley Paul, performing alongside longtime mentor and renowned pianist-composer Anthony Coleman. The evening also features artist M Lamar presenting American Cuck, a multimedia video, environmental installation, and musical performance exploring the maintenance of white supremacy.

ISSUE and the Board of Directors invite you to join us for our annual Gala, taking place on October 17, 2018. The evening honors pioneering composer Alvin Lucier; Regina Myer, President of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership; and Jeanne Lutfy, ISSUE Board Chair and NYC Landmarks Preservation Commissioner.

Improviser, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Brandon Lopez presents Malediction, his third and final piece as a 2018 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence, for four players (Michael Foster on Saxophones, Nina Dante voice, Lucie Vítková on accordian and objects, and Lopez himself).

ISSUE is pleased to present FOR, the first evening of FOR/WITH, a mini-festival featuring new commissions and works by iconoclast composers Wadada Leo Smith, Annea Lockwood, and Catherine Lamb. Now in its second year, the FOR/WITH series celebrates the collaborative process between performer and composer.

The second evening of the series opens with the world premiere of Becoming Air by Annea Lockwood, followed by Library on Lightning by Ashley Fure, Felipe Lara’s recent composition Metafagote, and the premiere of the duo rendition of Wadada Leo Smith’s Red Autumn Gold.