ISSUE Project Room announces a surprise addition to its summer season closing weekend: the return of “talk rock” band Title TK.
ISSUE Project Room is honored to present a special recording session by composer, poet, and 2021 Artist-In-Residence JJJJJerome Ellis, joined by longtime collaborator S T A R R busby. This intimate event gives unique access to ISSUE Members and launches the 2025 summer membership campaign.
ISSUE Project Room hosts a free limited engagement for up to 10 ISSUE Members with RSVP with Thomas Ankersmit on his artistic practice with the Serge Modular analog synthesizer, his main instrument since 2006.
At 2pm, ISSUE hosts a free public town hall organized by sound conceptualist & 2009 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Matana Roberts–the first in a nationwide series of gatherings.
Phantom Orbit is an immersive performance by 2025 Artist-In-Residence Qiujiang Levi Lu in collaboration with experimental musician Ka Baird. Staged within an 18-speaker dome at NYU Brooklyn’s “The Garage” space, it is presented in partnership with Harvestworks.
ISSUE is pleased to present 2025 Artist-In-Residence Zosha Warpeha’s second commission "Ballad & Air" featuring Henry Birdsey performing on bagpipes.
MATA presents its 27th annual MATA Festival, this year in partnership with ISSUE Project Room at the limited capacity 22 Boerum Pl. theater. Featuring four concerts across four nights, this year’s festival explores the concept of INTERGALACTIC INFINITY: Music Between Spaces.
2025 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow Kenneth Jiménez presents Umbral, a multisensory event that centers on the visionary Costa Rican performer Wendy Chinchilla Araya. With live score by percussionist Carlo Costa and violinist Sabrina Salamone.
Saturday, May 10th, at 8pm ISSUE hosts a live conversation between NYC-based Distant Pairs artists Eden Girma, Madison Greenstone & Suzanne Thorpe at the 22 Boerum Pl. theater.
ISSUE is proud to present a release event for Bored Giant Engine Sputter, the latest EP by Axine M, out this May via anno records. Featuring a new work by choreographer Amelia Heintzelman.
ISSUE and Time Based are pleased to stream a new collaboration between composer Oleksii Podat and Suzanne Thorpe as part of ongoing activations of the Distant Pairs Series. Throughout May 2025, ISSUE and Time Based will co-present three digital commissions uniting artists based in Kyiv and New York.
ISSUE and Time Based are pleased to stream a new collaboration between multi-instrumentalist Eden Girma and film composer Maryana Klochko as part of ongoing activations of the Distant Pairs Series. Throughout May 2025, ISSUE and Time Based will co-present three digital commissions uniting artists based in Kyiv and New York.
ISSUE and Time Based are pleased to stream a new collaboration between musician Madison Greenstone and installation artist Anton Saenko as part of ongoing activations of the Distant Pairs Series. Throughout May 2025, ISSUE and Time Based will co-present three digital commissions uniting artists based in Kyiv and New York.
Long Play is a three-day destination music festival: 50+ concerts throughout a dense network of inventive music venues in Brooklyn - including ISSUE Project Room - brought to you by Bang on a Can!
AIR CHANGE PER HOUR, the first commission from 2025 Artist-In-Residence Anna RG, interrogates the relationship between sound, space, and accessibility in the context of airborne safety.
ISSUE Project Room and AvanTokyo proudly present the world premiere of Respira, a groundbreaking collaboration between pioneering electronic musician Eucademix (a.k.a. Yuka Honda) and Butoh dancer azumi O E.
Join ISSUE Project Room in celebrating the release of The Quiet Sun, a highly anticipated new LP by Sarah Hennies & Tristan Kasten-Krause.
ISSUE invites Members and special guests to gather at the 22 Boerum Pl. theater for a powerful and immersive solo performance by drummer and pioneer of Afro-Electronica, Val Jeanty.
Between March 20-22, the organization will present new, live performance scores at its 22 Boerum Pl. theater as part of ongoing activations of the With Womens Work Series. ISSUE presents new projects by NYC-based sound artist and musician Sydney Spann featuring Kiera Mulhern & Duncan Moore, and Berlin-based vocalist Audrey Chen.
ISSUE invites composer Beth Anderson to host a workshop at 22 Boerum Pl. as part of ongoing activations of the With Womens Work Series. This event is part of a set of performances, talks, and screenings that reengage the series first offered as digital commissions at ISSUE in 2021, where several participating artists drew inspiration from Anderson’s scores.
Between March 20-22, the organization will present new, live performance scores at its 22 Boerum Pl. theater as part of ongoing activations of the With Womens Work Series. ISSUE presents new projects by sound artists and composers crys cole and Maayan Tsadka.
Between March 20-22, the organization will present new, live performance scores at its 22 Boerum Pl. theater as part of ongoing activations of the With Womens Work Series. ISSUE presents “Arrow & Synchronicity” by French multidisciplinary artist Annabelle Playe. The evening will conclude with a panel conversation moderated by writer-researcher Sami Hopkins featuring artists Audrey Chen, crys cole, and Annea Lockwood.
Anthology Film Archives & ISSUE Project Room present projections of work commissioned for ISSUE’s With Womens Work Series (2021).
2025 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow Kenneth Jiménez will present his first program, Dormir, Enlaces, exploring the potentiality of sound through oneiric photography by Emiliano Zúñiga Hernández.
For her first commission, 2025 Artist-In-Residence Zosha Warpeha will adapt the tuning of her sympathetic-stringed Hardanger d’amore in response to the acoustics of the 22 Boerum Pl. theater.
2025 Artist-In-Residence Jackson-Pratt’s first commission, The Microscope’s Slide: Live Painting Music No. 8 (for T.M.), is a multichannel performance piece using microphonic electronics and reactive canvas.
ISSUE is pleased to present Metanoia, a work-in-progress solo performance at 22 Boerum Pl. by 2025 Artist-In-Residence Qiujiang Levi Lu (卢秋江). Using geophone sensors, a customized in-mouth speaker, feedback, body drumming, choreographed movements, and interactive light installations, the piece amplifies and externalizes what is otherwise unseen and unheard.
ISSUE invites audiences to the 22 Boerum Pl. theater to experience new projects by multidisciplinary artists Leila Hassan and Selwa Abd (Bergsonist).
Building on their 2021 digital commission as part of ISSUE’s Distant Pairs series, Sofia Jernberg and Tomeka Reid reunite for ISSUE's 2025 Winter Season Opening concert, live at Brooklyn Music School. This event showcases Jernberg and Reid in a unique quartet, joined by NYC-based pianist Craig Taborn and Norwegian bassist Ole Morten Vågan.