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.
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ISSUE and Goethe-Institut present Rene Hell, Jeff Witscher’s alter-ego synthesizer project, Chicago-based electroacoustic composer Kevin Drumm, and a duo set by multi-instrumentalist/composers Eli Keszler and Ashley Paul.
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A diverse and hard-hitting bill of multidisciplinary performers including painter and performance artist Jutta Koether, sound/installation collaborative New Humans, Wally Blanchard & Stefan Tcherepnin's duo rESPetc2.rSonel, and the idiosyncratic improvisor C Specer Yeh.
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ISSUE and Goethe-Institut present a free talk and listening-session with artist, publisher, and musician James Hoff, followed by "Dispatch"— a performance system and public conversation by artist, curator and technologist Mathew Dryhurst.
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Resident Advisor and Mutual Dreaming team up with ISSUE and Goethe-Institut NY to present a late-night PAN_ACT party featuring live experimental sets from Detroit legend Terrence Dixon, and MC Sensational collaborating with Koyxen, Japan's doyen of noisecore. Berlin-based Call Super and DJ Richard round out the bill.
Resident Advisor teams up with ISSUE and Goethe-Institut to present an evening with 2013 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Ben Vida, London-based sound artist Helm, and composer / Root Strata label founder Jefre Cantu-Ledesma in a performance with his longtime collaborator, filmmaker Paul Clipson.
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ISSUE and Goethe-Institut present a free day-long series of talks with some of the most distinctive voices in experimental electronics: Keith Fullerton Whitman & Rashad Becker, Joseph Hammer, Jutta Koether, Steve Warwick (Heatsick), and Thomas Brinkmann.
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ISSUE and Goethe-Institut NY team up with The Bunker to present a late-night lineup at Ridgewood's K&K Super Buffet. With Regis, Lee Gamble, Laurel Halo, Keith Fullerton Whitman, and Bill Kouligas.
