Events 2022

Mary Margaret O’Hara & Jim White / Rena Anakwe

First Unitarian Congregational Society

Thursday, December 8th, 8pm ET, ISSUE is thrilled to welcome back Canadian artist and vocalist Mary Margaret O'Hara to New York to give a rare performance. She returns after her one off sold out presentation at ISSUE's 22 Boerum theater in 2018—the only time she has performed in the US over the last decade.

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ISSUE Member Event: Mary Margaret & Marcus O’Hara In Conversation

First Unitarian Congregational Society: Side Chapel

ISSUE is pleased to invite members and special guests to a reception and intimate conversation between Canadian artist and vocalist Mary Margaret O'Hara and her brother, “sculptor, artist, actor, storyteller, funnyman” Marcus O’Hara.

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THE BODY POPULAR: I, OF COURSE, WAS LIVID

The Mark O'Donnell Theater at the Entertainment Community Fund Arts Center

2022 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow Theodore Kerr + Housing Works & What Would an HIV Doula Do?, present I, OF COURSE, WAS LIVID. The performance features testimony that women living with HIV provided the CDC as part of the activism done to pressure the US government to create a more inclusive definition of AIDs.

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Sydney Spann & Kiera Mulhern

MITU580

Sound artist and musician Sydney Spann presents their final presentation as an ISSUE Artist-In-Residence with a live performance alongside poet and musician Kiera Mulhern at MITU580 in Gowanus, Brooklyn

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Tatyana Tenenbaum: Garment of the Interior

Brooklyn Music School

Choreographer and composer Tatyana Tenenbaum continues her 2022 ISSUE residency with Garment of the Interior, a first public sharing of a new project that emerges from a decade of research into the continuum between voice and movement.

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Dion TYGAPAW McKenzie: Devil Woman (Obeah Woman) Part 3

The Queens Museum

Saturday, November 12th at 8pm ET, at The Queens Museum, Dion TYGAPAW McKenzie presents their third and final work in progress presentation of Devil Woman (Obeah Woman). The piece is an opera in three parts developed as a 2022 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence.

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Sold Out! Bergsonist: As If Reality?

CPR – Center for Performance Research

ISSUE in partnership with Harvestworks and Center for Performance Research is pleased to present As If Reality?, a new work from multi-disciplinary artist, musician, designer and 2022 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Selwa Abd (Bergsonist).

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Member Event

ISSUE is pleased to invite Members to a reception and presentation of the first ever collaborative piece between cellist and composer Lucy Railton and intermedia artist Max Eilbacher. The installation of the commissioned collaboration will be presented at Fridman Gallery in the Lower East Side.

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Distant Pairs: James Fei & Yan Jun - 螺层 (Gyration)

Streaming on this webpage and Vimeo

ISSUE is pleased to stream a new collaboration between Oakland, California-based composer, synthesist, saxophonist and electronic musician James Fei and Chinese musician and poet Yan Jun, who is based in Beijing.

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Distant Pairs: Delia Beatriz (DEBIT) & Flora Yin Wong

Streaming on this webpage and Vimeo

ISSUE is pleased to stream the debut collaborative presentation between New York-based producer and composer Delia Beatriz (DEBIT) and London-based sound artist and writer Flora Yin Wong. This commissioned work will be the first ever collaboration between these two artists.

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Distant Pairs: Irmin Schmidt & Leah Singer

Streaming on this webpage and Vimeo

Wednesday, October 19th at 8pm ET, ISSUE is pleased to stream a new collaboration between Irmin Schmidt—legendary German pianist, conductor, composer and co-founder of experimental rock band Can—and NYC-based writer and visual artist Leah Singer.

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Sold Out! Dion TYGAPAW McKenzie: Devil Woman (Obeah Woman) Part 2

The Chocolate Factory Theater

Dion TYGAPAW McKenzie presents their second work in progress presentation of Devil Woman (Obeah Woman), an opera in three parts—and their 2nd commissioned project as a 2022 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence. Using Techno as their main genre of focus, the work urges us to renegotiate and expand our understanding of the genre.

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