Past Events

Choreographer and composer Tatyana Tenenbaum continues her 2022 ISSUE residency with Garment of the Interior, a first public sharing of a new project that emerges from a decade of research into the continuum between voice and movement.

Sound artist and musician Sydney Spann presents their final presentation as an ISSUE Artist-In-Residence with a live performance alongside poet and musician Kiera Mulhern at MITU580 in Gowanus, Brooklyn

2022 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow Theodore Kerr + Housing Works & What Would an HIV Doula Do?, present I, OF COURSE, WAS LIVID. The performance features testimony that women living with HIV provided the CDC as part of the activism done to pressure the US government to create a more inclusive definition of AIDs.

ISSUE is pleased to invite members and special guests to a reception and intimate conversation between Canadian artist and vocalist Mary Margaret O'Hara and her brother, “sculptor, artist, actor, storyteller, funnyman” Marcus O’Hara.

Thursday, December 8th, 8pm ET, ISSUE is thrilled to welcome back Canadian artist and vocalist Mary Margaret O'Hara to New York to give a rare performance. She returns after her one off sold out presentation at ISSUE's 22 Boerum theater in 2018—the only time she has performed in the US over the last decade.

ISSUE opens its 2023 season with an expansive gathering of improvising musicians with idiomatic approaches traversing guitar, percussion, voice, violin, trumpet, electronics, and more.

ISSUE and Primary Information are pleased to present the NYC premiere of Identity Pitches at Flamboyán Theater at The Clemente in the Lower East Side. Stine Janvin and Cory Arcangel will debut performances of scores and an audiovisual performance based on traditional Norwegian knitting patterns.

ISSUE & The Chocolate Factory Theater present legendary performance artist Linda Mary Montano hosting a series of “interactions."

ISSUE is pleased to present musician and sound artist Thomas Ankersmit and sound artist, composer, and educator Dani Dobkin each presenting new work specifically for the Serge Modular synthesizer.

ISSUE is pleased to present the premiere East Coast performance of French composer Pascale Criton’s Sounding Limits series of compositions, two of which were co-authored in close collaboration with renowned string players Silvia Tarozzi (violin) and Deborah Walker (cello).