Upcoming Events

27th Annual MATA Festival

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

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.

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Past Events

The Steve Circuit by Yuko Otomo & Matt Mottel: CBGB’s Gallery & 6 & B Garden with William Parker & Matthew Shipp

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This Summer, 2020, ISSUE and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council present The Steve Circuit, an episodic series of videos and digital artwork dedicated to the late beloved poet Steve Dalachinsky developed by his wife, painter and poet Yuko Otomo, and interdisciplinary artist Matt Mottel.

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The Steve Circuit by Yuko Otomo & Matt Mottel: The Knitting Factory & Tonic with Jean Carla Rodea & Gerald Cleaver, White Out (Tom Surgal & Lin Culbertson)

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This Summer, 2020, ISSUE and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council present The Steve Circuit, an episodic series of videos and digital artwork dedicated to the late beloved poet Steve Dalachinsky developed by his wife, painter and poet Yuko Otomo, and interdisciplinary artist Matt Mottel.

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The Steve Circuit by Yuko Otomo & Matt Mottel: Anthology Film Archives with Andrew Lampert

Streaming on this webpage and Vimeo

This Summer, 2020, ISSUE and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council present The Steve Circuit, an episodic series of videos and digital artwork dedicated to the late beloved poet Steve Dalachinsky developed by his wife, painter and poet Yuko Otomo, and interdisciplinary artist Matt Mottel.

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The Steve Circuit by Yuko Otomo & Matt Mottel: Spring Street with Vito Ricci & Lise Vachon

Streaming on this webpage and Vimeo

This Summer, 2020, ISSUE and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council present The Steve Circuit, an episodic series of videos and digital artwork dedicated to the late beloved poet Steve Dalachinsky developed by his wife, painter and poet Yuko Otomo, and interdisciplinary artist Matt Mottel.

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Isolated Field Recording Series: Aki Onda - Captured in the Air

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ISSUE is pleased to stream Captured in the Air, a recording from composer, performer, and 2012 Artist-In-Residence Aki Onda. "This is a portrait of Loren Connors, whom I have collaborated with for the last two decades."

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Isolated Field Recording Series: Laura Ortman - Dust Dives Alive

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ISSUE is pleased to stream Dust Dives Alive, a recording from multidisciplinary artist & 2010 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Laura Ortman. "As a White Mountain Apache woman from Arizona living 23 years in New York City, I have recorded the subways, traffic, parades, block parties, middle of the night hollering, etc."

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ISSUE streams a new hybrid piece from multidisciplinary artist & 2018 Artist-In-Residence James K. "This piece is a mediation on the layers that surround isolation. It moves through emotion & constructed history, processing and dissecting them, as an attempt to fully dissolve into the ether and become one."

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Isolated Field Recording Series: Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves - "I Have Been Alive. And I Intend to Live."

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ISSUE is pleased to present I Have Been Alive. And I Intend to Live., a recording from writer Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves. The piece presents the excavatory explorations and efforts at autobiographical inventory of a Black female writer born in the United States at the end of the twentieth century.

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