Past Events

ISSUE invites our community in partnership with Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center and Fridman Gallery to the 22 Boerum Pl. theater to explore the evolution of Gestures/Murmurations by sound artists Cecilia Lopez & John Driscoll.

Kwami Winfield presents her first program as a 2024 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence, "Thorn 6," featuring live computer processing of trumpet performance.

ISSUE is pleased to co-present a salon with SPRING/BREAK Art Show centered on performance works from the Jo Andres Archive.

ISSUE presents pioneering French composer of electroacoustic music, Michèle Bokanowski, for her East Coast debut at Brooklyn Music School. The evening will also feature two new works by composer Paula Matthusen that includes improvisations with Elliott Sharp, Matthew Evan Taylor, and video by Tom Snelgrove.

This Summer, ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Pl. theater provides an ideal laboratory for experimentation, where the audience can experience projects in-process. ISSUE partners with Arab.AMP and 2020 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow (SFCF) Leyya Mona Tawil to present the sixth installment in her NOMADIC SIGNALS series, featuring composer Huda Asfour alongside poet and performer Farah Barqawi.

This Summer, ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Pl. theater provides an ideal laboratory for experimentation, where the audience can experience projects in-process. 2018 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow (SFCF) and collective Queer Trash present the next evolution of their Symposium series featuring experimental artists David Grollman, M. Lamar, and Qiujiang Levi Lu.

ISSUE presents the second commission from 2024 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Katie Porter. Devoted to collaboration, the evening at Brooklyn Music School features experimental musicians Nomi Epstein, Jennie Gottschalk, Teodora Stepančić, and media artist Claudia Schmitz.

ISSUE is pleased to present the next stage of Surge: Contour Theater (previously "Performance #2"), the second commission from 2024 Artist-In-Residence Joni.

Join ISSUE Project Room and Figure 8 Recording to celebrate the summer with a drink at our 22 Boerum Pl. theater!

Commemorating 10 years since the murder of Eric Garner in Staten Island, NY, ISSUE participates in a series of community activations happening across NYC sparked by The Ritual of Breath Is the Rite to Resist to contend with an important question: what does it mean to support Black life through embodied ritual?

After more than 20 years, American composer Frankie Mann will make her return to New York at the First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn to open ISSUE's Fall 2024 Season. Collaborators David Behrman, Allison Easter, Sarah Hennies and John King will join the evening.

ISSUE presents Sold Licker Glass, the second commission from 2024 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Axine M. As a composer and technologist, her residency continues to explore the user experience and the effects of capitalism on our identities and relationships.