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.
Dedicating this performance to late ISSUE Project Room founder, Suzanne Foil, Dufallo will be performing music from "Dream Streets."
Winsome Brown at ISSUE Project Room performs "Monologues in Stereo."
Alexander Hacke (Einstürzende Neubauten) and Danielle de Picciotto explicate Sebastian Brant's 1458 novel "The Ship Of Fools" in a contemporary spirit, using a dreamlike world of electro-acoustic sounds, intricate projections, and magnificent singing to emphasize astonishingly up to date medieval themes.
ISSUE presents Rachel Bernsen performing two movement and sound collaborations; an excerpt of the quartet Unicorns Were Horses II, a concept album masquerading as a performance; and a new solo Glimmer Glint Glisten, exploring luminosity as a form of truth.
Originally conceived as an outdoor performance piece for eight glockenspiels and public performers, The Aaron Siegel Ensemble performs "Science is Only a Sometimes Friend."
Los Angeles-based artist and researcher, Yutaka Makino, presents new work from his research in non-standard sound synthesis, spatial perception, complex dynamic systems and emergence.
Continuing ISSUE's Littoral Series, curator Tony Antoniadis presents works by Erich Hintze, Eugene Marten and Phillip Stearns.
Zero Film Festival is dedicated to screening self-financed films from filmmakers all over the world, focusing on an under-appreciated and ignored niche in the independent film community. This evening includes works from artists Zohra Saed and Sahar Muradi.