Matana Roberts / Ben Vida with Sara Magenheimer

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

ISSUE closes the summer season with the return of Matana Roberts (2009 AIR). Opening the evening, Ben Vida (2013 AIR) will perform music from his 2026 release, "Oblivion Seekers" with vocalist Sara Magenheimer.

James Ilgenfritz with Joe McPhee & AC Diamond

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

Bassist and composer James Ilgenfritz (2011 AIR) returns to ISSUE, joined by Joe McPhee and AC Diamond for their first performance as a trio. This event marks a new shared context for three artists deeply invested in improvisation as a mode of inquiry. 

Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellowship 2026

Jade Manns / Ella Dawn W-S

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

Isabella Thorpe-Woods presents "Envelop/e," her second program as ISSUE’s 2026 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow. Bringing together choreographers Jade Manns and Ella Dawn W-S for site-specific duets, they navigate presence and absence, repetition and rupture, and the tension between inherited geometries and shifting landscapes.

Artists-In-Residence 2026

Webb Crawford: Spiriting Off

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

"Spiriting Off" is a new solo work by luthier Webb Crawford (2026 AIR) for electric guitar, tenor banjo, and five-string banjo.

Artists-In-Residence 2026

rocío sánchez: Monarch Butterfly

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

Monarch Butterfly by rocío sánchez (2026 AIR) features Melissa Almaguer (tap dance and percussion) and Kenneth Jiménez (double bass). Together, the trio explores the elusive monarch’s migratory journey through sound and movement, with each instrument articulating distinct states of motion.

Matt Mottel: The Image Is a Seed

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

ISSUE presents the premiere of three audiovisual compositions by Matt Mottel (2010 AIR). These works bring Mottel’s distinct artistic sensibility into dialogue with formative figures in his life and in New York’s avant-garde, tracing a lineage that is both deeply personal and central to ISSUE’s history.

ISSUE Online

In Conversation: Anna RG & Theodore (ted) Kerr

Streaming on this webpage and Vimeo

ISSUE Online brings together Anna RG (2025 AIR) and Theodore (ted) Kerr (2022 SFCF) for an exchange that moves beyond conversation. Drawing on RG’s speculative fiction project, Sick Music Center, the pair establish a shared set of rules, organizing their dialogue around three key prompts they call “Strategy,” “Focus,” and “Loose Ends.”

Qiujiang Levi Lu (卢秋江): Tapescape

Building 10a Nolan Park Governors Island

Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center and ISSUE present the performance of Qiujiang Levi Lu’s (2025 ISSUE AIR and TIP fellow) Tapescape. The live performance on Governors Island marks the opening of Lu’s Tapescape installation, which is free to the public and runs from May 16, 2026 through August 23, 2026.

Eva Davidova: Audience As Virus

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

Audience As Virus is an installation-performance by Eva Davidova (2020 AIR and TIP fellow) that involves the audience in the possibility to break AI predictions of human movement. Featuring Selwa Abd (2022 AIR and TIP fellow), Vinson Fraley, Danielle McPhatter, Dafna Naphtali, and Wobbly.

Harvestworks: Honoring Carol Parkinson

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

Saturday, April 25th, at 8pm, ISSUE Project Room celebrates its relationship with Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center and honors longtime Executive Director Carol Parkinson.

Bang On a Can: 2026 Long Play

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

ISSUE Project Room is proud to participate in Bang on a Can’s 2026 Long Play festival, with rare presentations and festival debuts from past ISSUE Artists-In-Residence, taking place at the 22 Boerum Pl. theater.

Taraka / Joanna Mattrey

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

Taraka (member of Prince Rama, 2011 AIR) returns to share “campfire songs” as a potential antidote to post-digital isolation. Joanna Mattrey (2021 AIR) opens the evening with an improvised solo set highlighting her signature approach to prepared viola.

ISSUE Online

In Conversation: BINT & Leyya Mona Tawil

Streaming on this webpage and Vimeo

BINT (2023 AIR) and Leyya Mona Tawil (2020 SFCF) activate ISSUE Online this March in celebration of the 20th anniversary of ISSUE’s AIR program.

Lea Bertucci & Norbert Rodenkirchen / Chris McIntyre

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

ISSUE presents The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity, a new composition for sampled and live early flutes in 8-channel sound by Lea Bertucci (2015 AIR), written for master flutist, Norbert Rodenkirchen. Chris McIntyre (2006 AIR) opens the evening.

Tatyana Tenenbaum: Night transits Day

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

Tatyana Tenenbaum (2022 AIR) creates a shifting tapestry of live vocal textures that unfurl, loop, emerge and disappear within the folds of ISSUE Project Room’s walls.

Member Event

ISSUE Member Event: Ying Liu

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

ISSUE Members are invited to "Check in" this March. Ying Liu is a Brooklyn-based hodgepodge-ist whose work hybridizes theater, dance, video, and performance art with DIY props and an exuberant sense of play by employing consumer technology such as VR, GoPro and GPS.

MV Carbon / Keke Hunt

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

ISSUE presents a two-part evening featuring interdisciplinary artists MV Carbon (2010 AIR) and Keke Hunt (2023 AIR). 

Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellowship 2026

Sold Out! Kate Williams / Aminah Ibrahim

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

2026 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow Isabella Thorpe-Woods will present her first program, Dear, at ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Pl. theater. Over the course of her fellowship, the artist will share a series of events that explore letters as a curatorial prompt, and the ways they both fail and succeed in transmitting meaning or reaching their desired destination.

Raúl de Nieves & Dawn Kasper / Justin Allen

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

ISSUE presents a first-time collaboration between multimedia artist and 2014 ISSUE AIR Raul de Nieves and interdisciplinary artist Dawn Kasper (2015 AIR) in honor of the anniversary season. The evening will open with a performance by Justin Allen (2020 AIR).

Artists-In-Residence 2026

rocío sánchez: Entornos

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

Traveling from Ensenada, Baja California, across the border into San Diego, 2026 Artist-In-Residence rocío sánchez traces the acoustic, cultural, and ecological resonances of the US-México Borderlands for their first commission.

Artists-In-Residence 2026

Webb Crawford: Men dreme of thing that never was ne shall

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

2026 Artist-In-Residence Webb Crawford presents their first commission. A luthier whose practice centers on modern reconstructions of historical stringed instruments, Crawford explores their recontextualization within experimental music.