Leila Hassan / Bergsonist
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201
ISSUE invites audiences to the 22 Boerum Pl. theater to experience new projects by multidisciplinary artists Leila Hassan and Selwa Abd (Bergsonist).
Upcoming Events
Jackson-Pratt: The Microscope’s Slide: Live Painting Music No. 8 (for T.M.)
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201
2025 Artist-In-Residence Jackson-Pratt’s first commission, The Microscope’s Slide: Live Painting Music No. 8 (for T.M.), is a multichannel performance piece using microphonic electronics and reactive canvas.
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ISSUE is pleased to present Metanoia, a work-in-progress solo performance at 22 Boerum Pl. by 2025 Artist-In-Residence Qiujiang Levi Lu (卢秋江). Using geophone sensors, a customized in-mouth speaker, feedback, body drumming, choreographed movements, and interactive light installations, the piece amplifies and externalizes what is otherwise unseen and unheard.
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Past Events
Jo Andres’ Dreaming Out Loud with Jennifer Reeves, Lisa Rinzler, Lucy Sexton, Elliott Sharp & Axine M
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201
ISSUE Project Room presents Jo Andres’ short film Dreaming Out Loud (1990), with a live score and discussion on the legacy of Andres’ work and its echoes across music, dance and film.
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Jo Andres' Black Kites with Eszter Balint, Mimi Goese, Katie Porter & Hahn Rowe
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201
ISSUE Project Room presents Jo Andres’ award-winning film Black Kites (1996), and a unique performance featuring the film’s source text based on the 1992 wartime journals of Bosnian visual artist Alma Hajric, as part of the 2024 Brooklyn Book Festival.
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Yanira Castro / a canary torsi: Exorcism = Liberation: I came here to weep with Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Sami Hopkins & Theodore (ted) Kerr
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201
ISSUE Project Room hosts a long table discussion around the public art project, Exorcism = Liberation, by Puerto Rican-born, Brooklyn-based artist and choreographer Yanira Castro. During this year’s critical American election, "I came here to weep" is but one of several slogans in the project's call-to-action.
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ISSUE presents Sold Licker Glass, the second commission from 2024 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Axine M. As a composer and technologist, her residency continues to explore the user experience and the effects of capitalism on our identities and relationships.
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Frankie Mann with David Behrman, Allison Easter, Sarah Hennies & John King / Sarah Hennies
First Unitarian Congregational Society
After more than 20 years, American composer Frankie Mann will make her return to New York at the First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn to open ISSUE's Fall 2024 Season. Collaborators David Behrman, Allison Easter, Sarah Hennies and John King will join the evening.
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TO BREATHE IS TRIUMPH: Irreversible Entanglements / Shara Lunon
First Unitarian Congregational Society
Commemorating 10 years since the murder of Eric Garner in Staten Island, NY, ISSUE participates in a series of community activations happening across NYC sparked by The Ritual of Breath Is the Rite to Resist to contend with an important question: what does it mean to support Black life through embodied ritual?
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Summer Social @ ISSUE with Figure 8 Recording
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201
Join ISSUE Project Room and Figure 8 Recording to celebrate the summer with a drink at our 22 Boerum Pl. theater!
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ISSUE is pleased to present the next stage of Surge: Contour Theater (previously "Performance #2"), the second commission from 2024 Artist-In-Residence Joni.