Past Events

Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellowship 2023

Sold Out! Everything Must Go! Cal Fish & More Eaze

140 2nd Ave., #503

2023 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow evil dentist (Alice Gerlach and David Farrow) present “everything must go!,” a durational office space performance featuring performances by Cal Fish and More Eaze.

Rocket Science (Peter Evans, Ikue Mori, Sam Pluta, Craig Taborn)

Brooklyn Music School

ISSUE is pleased to present a rare performance from Rocket Science, a collaborative improvising ensemble formed in 2012. Initially composed of Evan Parker, Peter Evans, Sam Pluta, and Craig Taborn, the group has expanded on occasion to include Ikue Mori on live electronics.

75 Dollar Bill: Little Big Band + Duo

The Old American Can Factory Courtyard

ISSUE is pleased to present a special outdoor performance featuring Che Chen and Rick Brown’s celebrated duo 75 Dollar Bill performing in both their “little big band” ensemble format and in duo formation. The event marks the 10 year anniversary of 75 Dollar Bill’s first appearance at ISSUE.

Roscoe Mitchell & John McCowen / Beam Splitter

First Unitarian Congregational Society

ISSUE celebrates its 20th Anniversary and Fall 2023 season at the First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn Heights with internationally renowned musician and composer Roscoe Mitchell, joined by composer/clarinetist John McCowen, plus a performance from duo project BEAM SPLITTER (Audrey Chen and Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø).

Artists-In-Residence 2023

Sold Out! BINT: Solve et Coagula → عيب, Stage II: تبييض (The Whitening)

CPR – Center for Performance Research

Interdisciplinary artist and musician BINT presents her second program as an ISSUE Artist-In-Residence. This next iteration of "عيب:Solve et Coagula" will be co-presented at CPR – Center for Performance Research in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Over the course of the year, she will be presenting three commissioned programs mirroring the primary stages of (Arabic) alchemical transmutation.

Cancelled Benedict Nguyễn / Anh Vo

The Invisible Dog Art Center

ISSUE presents the dance world's favorite doppelgangers, Benedict Nguyễn (2019 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow) and Anh Vo, in their first-ever collaborative performance as part of ISSUE Project Room's 2023 Fall Season. Nguyễn returns to ISSUE this season to perform her own work alongside fellow dancer and writer Vo.

Lime Rickey International / Masma Dream World

The Invisible Dog Art Center

ISSUE is pleased to present multidisciplinary artists Lime Rickey International & Masma Dream World as part of ISSUE Project Room's 2023 Fall Season. Introduced to each other’s practice through ISSUE, Lime Rickey International (Leyya Mona Tawil, 2020 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow) and Masma Dream World (Devi Mambouka) will present work with ISSUE for the first time.

ISSUE Project Room's 20th Anniversary Series

Isolated Field Recordings (projected redux) with Kim Brandt, Dawn Kasper and Jules Gimbrone

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

ISSUE celebrates its 20th Anniversary at our 22 Boerum Pl. theater with projections of work commissioned for our Isolated Field Recordings Series (2020), which engaged nineteen artists to create new audio field recordings, with associated visuals, in response to COVID-19’s impact on public assembly.

ISSUE Project Room's 20th Anniversary Series

The Steve Circuit (projected redux) with Matt Mottel & Yuko Otomo, Jean Carla Rodea and Clifford Allen

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

ISSUE celebrates its 20th Anniversary at our 22 Boerum Pl. theater with projections of work commissioned for The Steve Circuit (2020), an episodic series of videos and digital artwork dedicated to the late beloved poet Steve Dalachinsky developed by his wife, painter and poet Yuko Otomo, and interdisciplinary artist and 2010 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence (AIR), Matt Mottel.

ISSUE Project Room's 20th Anniversary Series

Heroes Are Gang Leaders: The Day We Gave The Globes Back, A Sing Along! (projected redux)

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

ISSUE celebrates its 20th Anniversary at our 22 Boerum Pl. theater with projections of work commissioned from Heroes Are Gang Leaders, a literary free jazz ensemble of writers, artists and musicians. The performance titled The Day We Gave The Globes Back, A Sing Along!, was recorded and streamed as a part of the 2020 Brooklyn Book Festival featuring an expansive fourteen-member band that included the full group’s lineup as well as multiple embedded solos and ensemble formations of the group’s various members.

ISSUE Project Room's 20th Anniversary Series

Distant Pairs (projected redux)

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

ISSUE celebrates its 20th Anniversary at our 22 Boerum Pl. theater with projections of eight audio-visual works commissioned for our Distant Pairs Series (2020-2022). During three years, the Series engaged thirty-six artists, across eighteen programs that paired artists in disparate locations who could not work together in “traditional” ways over the past three years. The Distant Pairs series examined the collaborative process, methods of working, and partnership amidst the constrained conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic.