ISSUE is proud to present a release event for Bored Giant Engine Sputter, the latest EP by Axine M, out this May via anno records. Featuring a new work by choreographer Amelia Heintzelman.
MATA presents its 27th annual MATA Festival, this year in partnership with ISSUE Project Room at the limited capacity 22 Boerum Pl. theater. Featuring four concerts across four nights, this year’s festival explores the concept of INTERGALACTIC INFINITY: Music Between Spaces.
Wednesday, February 3rd at 8pm EST, ISSUE is pleased to stream sound artist crys cole’s Valid ForeverrRrrRRrrr… (pt.1), a lockdown interpretation of composer Beth Anderson’s Valid For Life.
Thursday, January 28th, ISSUE and Abrons Arts Center are pleased to present a new video piece by Elysia Crampton Chuquimia, as well as the premiere of Seasons in a Quasar, a new collaborative work by Brooklyn-based vocalist and producer Embaci and South African via NYC artist Dasychira.
Composer and performer John McCowen presents his third and final performance as a 2020 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence with LOW QUARTET, featuring Leila Bordreuil, Zach Rowden, & Lester St. Louis.
ISSUE and Harvestworks are pleased to stream a commissioned residency project from multidisciplinary artist Eva Davidova. Global Mode > is an interactive, experimental online performance on ecological disaster, inertia, and manipulation of information.
2020 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Holland Andrews presents There You Are, a series of micro-performances taken place over the phone. Andrews will email a work to each participant to be played in an available speaker or sound system in their home while Andrews' then calls them to sing and speak to them.
Jordan Demetrius Lloyd presents The Last Moon in Mellowland, curated by 2019 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow Benedict Nguyen. This work is a choreographic collaging of movement, sound, and visuals that compile months of footage and rehearsals over late summer and early fall 2020.
2020 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow Leyya Tawil presents “Crucial Language / Dirar Kalash & Jamal R. Moore,” her third program in the NOMADIC SIGNALS series. “Crucial Language” places the work of Kalash (Haifa, Palestine) and Moore (Baltimore, US) in conversation through performance and discussion.
DeForrest Brown Jr. (2017 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow) returns to curate “The Drexciyan Empire,” a collection of audio visual montages by illustrator and futurist A. Qadim Haqq and soundtracked by Dopplereffekt + conversation between Brown & A. Qadim Haqq on the legacy of Drexciya.
