Past Events

ISSUE is pleased to present a conversation and performance from renowned musician and author David Toop alongside free improviser and composer Tania Caroline Chen -- both artists’ debut appearance at ISSUE. The evening celebrates the publication of Toop’s autobiography Flutter Echo: Living Within Sound.

Lindsay Packer premieres her second work as a 2019 Artist-In-Residence, a collaboration with composer and performer Anaïs Maviel. Revealing the subliminal complexity within the synaesthetic wave behaviors of light and sound, Packer and Maviel conjure the harmonics inherent in their fast-traveling wave forms.

loveconductors presents "ghoul|take III," curated by 2019 Curatorial Fellow Benedict Nguyen. Directed by Shantelle Courvoisier, loveconductors is a human movement project feat. Renée Colbert, Justin Faircloth, Maestro Flux, Ube Halaya, Shiloh Hodges, Samantha Lysaght, Light McAuliffe, Madeline Warriner, and slowdanger.

ISSUE presents Moor Mother, the viscerally charged output of Philadelphia-based musician, poet, visual artist, and activist Camae Ayewa + new work from Jerusalem In My Heart. The evening spans both projects’ enduring interest in exploring both ancestral and contemporary narratives through powerful sound.

ISSUE presents the world premiere of The Sun Too Close to the Earth, an expansive new ensemble work by iconoclast composer Rhys Chatham. The performance is presented as a part of the French Institute Alliance Française’s Crossing The Line Festival and also features work from Zeena Parkins & Jonathan Kane.

ISSUE is honored to present an evening in celebration of the organization’s beloved late founder Suzanne Fiol. The event is a showcase of the exhibition Suzanne Fiol: Ten Years Alive, a conversation with Suzanne’s close friends: artists Kathy Brew, Michelle Handelman & Kimiko Hahn + a performance from MV Carbon.

ISSUE Project Room is delighted to honor renowned artist and ISSUE Board member Robert Longo and ISSUE’s beloved late founder Suzanne Fiol . This year’s event celebrates two artists who envisioned ISSUE from its earliest years, bringing a unique perspective to New York’s avant-garde performance landscape.

Esteemed Japanese band Asa-Chang & Junray draw on material from the project’s entire discography on their first visit to the U.S. Lea Bertucci & Amirtha Kidambi also perform in a recently formed duo, featuring improvisations for voice processed through idiosyncratic misuse of tape machines.

New York’s long-running creative music ensemble Ne(x)tworks presents its final performance. The career-spanning program nods in many of the directions explored since the group’s first concert in June 2003, showcasing graphic and hybrid scores that expose the conceptual root elements of the Ne(x)tworks project.

ISSUE presents an expansive gathering of NYC artists working across disciplines. Leila Bordreuil and Lee Ranaldo debut an improvised duet, and are then joined by Stephan Moore. Asha Sheshadri stages a new iteration of her essayistic performance practice and The New York Review of Cocksucking also perform.

American poet & painter Christopher Knowles reads new poetry and plays vinyl records. Knowles’s performance departs from an art practice broader than any classification suggests -- spanning text, sound, painting & sculpture. Choreographer/performer Will Rawls also presents a new iteration of his Cursor project.

ISSUE is thrilled to present an epic, career-spanning durational performance by longtime friend William Basinski. Taking place at ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Theater from 6pm until 2am, Basinski takes listeners through a marathon sequence of past, recent, and new work featuring light artists Seth Kirby & Brock Monroe.