"Spiriting Off" is a new solo work by luthier Webb Crawford (2026 AIR) for electric guitar, tenor banjo, and five-string banjo.
Upcoming Events
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.
No-Neck Blues Band
First Unitarian Congregational Society
Formed in NYC in 1993, the improvising collective No-Neck Blues Band (NNCK) favors anonymity, autonomy, and obfuscation. Alongside founding member Keith Connolly (2016 AIR), they return to open ISSUE’s Fall season at First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn.
eden girma: I hope / I won't make / any mistak(e)s
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201
ISSUE presents the first commission from Eden Girma (2026 AIR). Part dreamscape and part summoning circle, an intimate diasporic familial archive is pieced together through the eyes of a five-year-old child.
Back to the Present: 50 Years of Free Expression with Franklin Furnace
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201
In partnership with Franklin Furnace as part of their 50th anniversary commemoration and November release of "Back to the Present: 50 Years of Free Expression with Franklin Furnace" ISSUE presents an evening of performance and conversation.
Sergei Tcherepnin
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201
Incorporating elements of noise, trance and minimalism, Sergei Tcherepnin (2012 AIR) presents new work for Serge Modular synthesizer.
Past Events
Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellowship 2026
Sold Out! 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.