Formed in NYC in 1993, the improvising collective No-Neck Blues Band (NNCK) favors anonymity, autonomy, and obfuscation. Alongside founding member Keith Connolly (2016 AIR), they return to open ISSUE’s Fall season at First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn.
ISSUE presents the first commission from Eden Girma (2026 AIR). Part dreamscape and part summoning circle, an intimate diasporic familial archive is pieced together through the eyes of a five-year-old child.
In partnership with Franklin Furnace as part of their 50th anniversary commemoration and November release of "Back to the Present: 50 Years of Free Expression with Franklin Furnace" ISSUE presents an evening of performance and conversation.
Incorporating elements of noise, trance and minimalism, Sergei Tcherepnin (2012 AIR) presents new work for Serge Modular synthesizer.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Join ISSUE Project Room and Figure 8 Recording to celebrate the summer with a drink at our 22 Boerum Pl. theater!
ISSUE is pleased to present the next stage of Surge: Contour Theater (previously "Performance #2"), the second commission from 2024 Artist-In-Residence Joni.
Artists-In-Residence 2024
ISSUE presents the second commission from 2024 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Katie Porter. Devoted to collaboration, the evening at Brooklyn Music School features experimental musicians Nomi Epstein, Jennie Gottschalk, Teodora Stepančić, and media artist Claudia Schmitz.
This Summer, ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Pl. theater provides an ideal laboratory for experimentation, where the audience can experience projects in-process. 2018 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow (SFCF) and collective Queer Trash present the next evolution of their Symposium series featuring experimental artists David Grollman, M. Lamar, and Qiujiang Levi Lu.