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.
From the archives, a benefit with Sean Meehan, Alan Licht, Elliott Sharp, Marco Cappelli, Barbara Barg and Billionaires for Bush Fonda Sterling and DJ Olive.
ErstQuake 1 is the first in what will hopefully be an ongoing series of collaborative events between Erstwhile Records and Quakebasket, both based in and around NYC.
A poetry reading on the RNC, President Bush and the crisis in Iraq
From the archives, Rattapallax poetry reading plus performances by Margarida Garcia, Barry Weisblat, Dion Workman, Tim Barnes, Jason Lescalleet, Greg Kelley, Sean Meehan, David Daniell, Keith Rowe, and Tim Barnes.
For the 2004 HOWL Festival, ISSUE Project Room will be presenting an interpretation of seminal British avant-garde composer Cornelius Cardew’s 1969 experimental music piece The Great Learning from Paragraph Two.
KENNY WOLLESEN MARCHING BAND live in Tompkins Square Park
participation = wordification = anticipation = musification = actification = beautification = whoification = youification.