ISSUE Members are invited to "Check in" this March. Ying Liu is a Brooklyn-based hodgepodge-ist whose work hybridizes theater, dance, video, and performance art with DIY props and an exuberant sense of play by employing consumer technology such as VR, GoPro and GPS.
BINT (2023 AIR) and Leyya Mona Tawil (2020 SFCF) activate ISSUE Online this March in celebration of the 20th anniversary of ISSUE’s AIR program.
Taraka (member of Prince Rama, 2011 AIR) returns to share “campfire songs” as a potential antidote to post-digital isolation. Joanna Mattrey opens the evening with an improvised solo set highlighting her signature approach to prepared viola.
Tatyana Tenenbaum (2022 AIR) creates a shifting tapestry of live vocal textures that unfurl, loop, emerge and disappear within the folds of ISSUE Project Room’s walls.
ISSUE presents The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity, a new composition for sampled and live early flutes in 8-channel sound by 2015 AIR Lea Bertucci, written for master flutist, Norbert Rodenkirchen. Chris McIntyre (2006 AIR) opens the evening.
ISSUE Project Room is proud to participate in Bang on a Can’s 2026 Long Play festival, with rare presentations and festival debuts from past ISSUE Artists-In-Residence, taking place at the 22 Boerum Pl. theater.
Duo performances by John Bischoff, best known for his work in computer-driven synthesis and performance, with Mark Trayle, a multimedia artist working in live electronic music, installations, and composition; and by electro-acoustic saxophone performer John Butcher, with electronic music composer Thomas Lehn.
Issue Project Room partners with TEDxFort Greene to present a salon featuring stories of creativity and innovation. Speakers include curator Ingrid LaFleur, bassist Melvin Gibbs, Dr. Ben Dubin-Thaler, and Elastic City founder Todd Shalom.
Associates of Tokyo's Onkyo group, these artists explore the role of silence in shaping and subverting the musical event. Their use of silence as foreground, and their sparse, minimal playing, deconstruct traditional correlations between intended sound and its absence, creating a seamless flow of sounds and silences.
Associates of Tokyo's Onkyo group, these artists explore the role of silence in shaping and subverting the musical event. Their use of silence as foreground, and their sparse, minimal playing, deconstruct traditional correlations between intended sound and its absence, creating a seamless flow of sounds and silences.
Tyehimba Jess explores how the contrapuntal poem and poetic form can reflect aspects of Euclidian space, history, and geometry in Syncopated Verse and the Art of Paradox; the Tracie Morris Band, feat. multidisciplinary poet, scholar, and performer Tracie Morris, with Val Jeanty, and Marvin Sewell performs.
The world premiere of Maxim Moston's live orchestration of William Basinski's "Disintegration Loops" at The Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
2011 Artist-in-Residence Prince Rama will transform ISSUE Project Room into a point of origins. They will construct a “sacred space” using gathered matter from off-site urban wilds of Brooklyn. Audience members will be invited to build their own instruments and utilize them in an extended jam session open to anyone.