Past Events

ISSUE and Abrons Arts Center are pleased to present Seasons in a Quasar, a new collaborative performance by Brooklyn-based vocalist & producer Embaci and South African via NYC artist Dasychira. Seasons in a Quasar is a dynamic show with references ranging from classic children's stories to Trinidadian folklore.

ISSUE presents an evening of pioneering work from choreographer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer and composer David Behrman, highlighting the artists’ work interpreted and presented by a new generation of artists.

A deeply personal two-part recording, 9 a.m. (Eternal) simultaneously embraces both the inner & outer interiorities of Toussaint-Baptiste’s early morning life in Crown Heights, NYC, with mundane practices finding new significance against the neighborhood’s dramatically shifting acoustic and physical landscapes.

ISSUE is pleased to stream SHARDS:PROPRIOCEPTION, a new recording and accompanying visual project by multimedia artist, producer, performer, and engineer QUALIATIK. The piece aims to capture the contrast between an inner spaciousness and an outer claustrophobia.

Vocal artist, composer & writer Shelley Hirsch has recorded elements of her current frequent practice: generating improvised text through vocalizing through a harmonizer in tandem with recordings of Morton Feldman pieces.

Translating to “from one fragment to another,” D'un fragment à l'autre is a sonic retrospective of “exhumed” fragments from Bergsonist's published body of work and a collaboration with multimedia artist and longtime visual collaborator Greg Zifcak.

ISSUE is pleased to present Alive In St. Louis, a new recording, video, and “CD” from filmmaker, video artist, musician & performer Andrew Lampert. The piece contains a selection of songs, sounds and noises produced with a guitar, keyboard and electricity, largely captured on Iphone and mostly made alone.

ISSUE returns to the First Unitarian Congregational Society to present an expansive program of liberated sound featuring Peter Brötzmann’s trio outfit Full Blast with Marino Pliakas & Michael Wertmüller, as well as new solo work by John Wiese and Victoria Shen.

ISSUE is pleased to present To the Planetarium, a new long-form recording from writer and musician Derek Baron. The recording is part of the Isolated Field Recording Series, commissioning artists to produce field recordings to be streamed over the course of this challenging and isolated time.

ISSUE is pleased to present Prosody as Messy Measurement Membrane, a new video piece from artist, composer, and 2012 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Jules Gimbrone. "What is the prosody of the membrane? Instead of putting the measurement in a tool aimed at capturing truth, we listened to the membrane."

ISSUE is pleased to present a recording with accompanying video and text from choreographer and 2015 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Kim Brandt. The work is part of the Isolated Field Recording Series, commissioning artists to produce field recordings to be streamed over this isolated time.

2020 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow Leyya Tawil presents her second program in the NOMADIC SIGNALS series in partnership with Poetry Project, featuring the NYC debut of a new trio formed by poet Marwa Helal and musicians Saint Abdullah.