On Thursday, March 6th at 8pm, 2025 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow Kenneth Jiménez will present his first program, Dormir, Enlaces, at ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Pl. theater. Jiménez, who is also behind the NYC-based “Cría Cuervos” creative music project, will present a series of events over the course of the year that engage artists from the Caribbean, Central and South America, discussing music’s complex relationship to tradition and genre.
“When we go to sleep every night, we just surrender, not knowing if we will wake up again. We give up individuality to enter a realm where we stop existing to our chosen character. Suddenly, there’s a dissolution of a continued narrative, and we become plural. With our eyes closed, we look private, or so it seems from the outside, but we are dreaming; we are actually accessing a common ground, a space where we are all innocent and potential. We return home.” Exploring the potentiality of sound through dreaming in his practice, Costa Rican photographer Emiliano Zúñiga Hernández will provide the groundwork for improvisation by interdisciplinary artist and vocalist isabel crespo pardo, percussionist Daniel Prim, and guitarist Drew Wesely.
While ongoing access to Boerum remains limited due to the Government of New York City managed renovations, ISSUE is fortunate to have access to our home theater through Spring 2025 with increased capacity due to a temporary permit. ISSUE looks forward to welcoming the public back to the theater, and is invested in community participation to ensure the building reflects the diverse needs and priorities of our artists, audiences and staff.
Emiliano Zúñiga Hernández (he/him) is a Costa Rican based photographer. Between 2016-2019 he was president and co-founder of the non-profit association Costa Rica Initiative, a healing center focused on facilitating working methods with the intention of freeing participants from deep-rooted fears, self-judgments, limiting beliefs and behaviors of self-sabotage. Since 2023, he has been teaching and co-facilitating creative workshops that invites its participants to explore their relationship with their past and present contexts, through a series of homeworks and group feedback aimed to examine personal motivations and emotional responses in parallel to the production of photographs, texts, videos, audios, drawings, among others forms of creative expression. The author develops personal photographic projects that seek to establish a relationship between the oneiric and daily life.
isabel crespo pardo (they/them) is a NYC-based latinx vocalist, improviser-composer, and interdisciplinary artist. Their work actively entangles music, visual art, text and performance, always evolving to reflect the intra/interpersonal spaces they inhabit. Reveling in soft chaos, they embrace openness and specificity to create poetic work(s).
Daniel Prim (he/him) is a drummer, percussionist, and educator. Born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, Daniel specializes in jazz, Afro-Venezuelan, and Latin music. His studies began at home, where music was the center of family life. When he was eleven years old, he attended José Reyna Music School and continued his formal training at the Simón Bolívar Conservatory of Music, part of the National Youth and Children's Orchestras of Venezuela.
Drew Wesely (they/them) is a guitarist, composer, and improvisor based out of Brooklyn, NY. Their music explores relationships between timbre, gesture, duration and the fractal scales of form that emerge through improvisation. Their compositional approach aims to set processes in motion which engage spatial and physical aspects of sound perception. Drew’s interest in how states of consciousness affect the unfolding of sound as an experience and the implications it presents as an embodied phenomena has led them to create large-scale, immersive installation works including the curation and production of the interdisciplinary series “Invocation” alongside artists from radically divergent practices and histories.
