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.
ISSUE Project Room presents Basque artist, Mattin and the Austrian artist and composer, Bernhard Gál.
ISSUE Project Room presents author and poet Byron Coley reading from an unpublished novel about record collectors called ”Dominos." Musical accompaniment by the legendary Loren Connors, plus a reading by former editor of “New York Rocker,” Andy Schwartz.
The evening will also include music performance by Nondor Nevai w/ Mick Barr as part of ISSUE’s Littoral Series co-curated by Suzanne Fiol and Tony Antoniadis.
ISSUE Project Room presents Tony Conrad and Brandon W Joseph in a reading and discussion followed by a performance by Tony Conrad.
Nick Hallett and Daisy Press sing works by Ives, Monk, Ashley, Cardew and more.
ISSUE Project Room is thrilled to present, live, the legendary John Kilduff of Los Angeles’ Let's Paint TV.
A conversation with Robert Ashely, scored using one of Ashley’s early graphic scores, "In memoriam…Esteban Gomez" (1963).
Cellist, composer and improviser Ha-Yang Kim presents new work at ISSUE Project Room.