Saturday, May 10th, at 8pm ISSUE hosts a live conversation between NYC-based Distant Pairs artists Eden Girma, Madison Greenstone & Suzanne Thorpe at the 22 Boerum Pl. theater.
ISSUE and Time Based are pleased to stream a new collaboration between multi-instrumentalist Eden Girma and film composer Maryana Klochko as part of ongoing activations of the Distant Pairs Series. Throughout May 2025, ISSUE and Time Based will co-present three digital commissions uniting artists based in Kyiv and New York.
ISSUE and Time Based are pleased to stream a new collaboration between composer Oleksii Podat and Suzanne Thorpe as part of ongoing activations of the Distant Pairs Series. Throughout May 2025, ISSUE and Time Based will co-present three digital commissions uniting artists based in Kyiv and New York.
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.
An evening of improvised duets featuring Marina Rosenfeld closes electronic composer Ben Vida’s 2013 residency. A leading voice in the increasing hybridization between the domains of visual art and music, Rosenfeld performs on turntables. Vida plays a digital/analog hybrid synth.
Electronic artists Chris Madak (Bee Mask) and Fabric's atmospheric synth compositions have emerged from corners of the midwest to international acclaim through many consistently auspicious, sculpted releases. Solo sets from each guarantee a night of hypnotic sounds with a contrarian bent.
Formed in 2005, the trio of Michael Snow, Alan Licht and Aki Onda achieves the all-too-rare alchemy of strong separate identities and shared aesthetics into a holistic unit. Snow, who began his career as a pianist, performs on the CAT synthesizer, with Licht on guitar and Onda on cassette recorders and electronics.
A seminal pioneer in the DIY ethic, R. Stevie Moore has recorded over 400 very original homemade albums of alarmingly idiosyncratic styles— tonight he performs unplugged. Bursting with electro-funk, synth rock, soul, and avant-garde jazz, Gary Wilson's songs celebrate the romance and randiness of born-losers.
ISSUE is pleased to host an evening with three extraordinary singer songwriters: Josephine Foster, Victor Herrero and Ed Askew. Outsider folk legend Askew plays new songs with his trio, joined at times by Foster and Herrero, who each perform solo sets.
SOLD OUT, tickets for Sunday still available. "This room this braid" premieres, a new work by choreographer devynn emory. Commissioned as part of ISSUE’s Artist-In-Residence program, the piece features devynn emory joined by dancer Aretha Aoki, with sound by Ryan MacDonald, and sets by painter RJ Messineo.
Since 1981 BOMB Magazine has publishing conversations between artists, giving a crucial voice to creative and critical practices of all genres. Tonight BOMB raises funds to make all content free, and to pay online contributors. With David Grubbs, Eli Keszler, C Spencer Yeh, Jules Gimbrone, Ben Lerner & Amy Sillman.
Peter Evans opens his 2014 residency with a solo trumpet performance, a format he has been working with for over a decade. Improvisation is used as a method of pressurizing and slowly refining materials from concert to concert, a process of using the known as a catapult to the unknown.
