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.
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.
"Spiriting Off" is a new solo work by luthier Webb Crawford (2026 AIR) for electric guitar, tenor banjo, and five-string banjo.
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.
Tyehimba Jess explores how the contrapuntal poem and poetic form can reflect aspects of Euclidian space, history, and geometry in Syncopated Verse and the Art of Paradox; the Tracie Morris Band, feat. multidisciplinary poet, scholar, and performer Tracie Morris, with Val Jeanty, and Marvin Sewell performs.
The world premiere of Maxim Moston's live orchestration of William Basinski's "Disintegration Loops" at The Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
2011 Artist-in-Residence Prince Rama will transform ISSUE Project Room into a point of origins. They will construct a “sacred space” using gathered matter from off-site urban wilds of Brooklyn. Audience members will be invited to build their own instruments and utilize them in an extended jam session open to anyone.
Members of TILT Brass perform a wide range of rarely heard chamber works for brass, percussion and electronics by European and NYC-based composers, including the New York premiere of Herakles 2 by acclaimed German composer Heiner Goebbels, as well as works by Richard Barrett, Peter Zummo and Chris McIntyre.
Since 2007, New York performance-duo John Moran...and his neighbor, Saori have created a quiet sensation among presenters across European touring-circuits.
The DownTown Ensemble performs sound/text pieces by Robert Ashley, Daniel Goode, Richard Kostelanetz, Jackson Mac Low and Anne Tardos. Featured performers include Bill Hellermann, and downtown stalwarts Peter Zummo, Alex Waterman, Andrew Bolotowsky, and Daniel Goode. Songs by David Garland round out the evening.
