Upcoming Events

MV Carbon / Keke Hunt

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

ISSUE presents a two-part evening featuring interdisciplinary artists MV Carbon (2010 AIR) and Keke Hunt (2023 AIR). 

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Member Event

ISSUE Member Event: Ying Liu

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

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.

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Taraka / Joanna Mattrey

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

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.

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Tatyana Tenenbaum: Night transits Day

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

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.

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Lea Bertucci & Norbert Rodenkirchen / Chris McIntyre

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

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.

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Bang On a Can: 2026 Long Play

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

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.

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Past Events

An Improvisational Symphony: coordinated by Suzanne Langille

First Unitarian Congregational Society

A diverse array of twenty artists come together in An Improvisational Symphony to close ISSUE's 20th Anniversary Season, coordinated by vocalist and longtime ISSUE friend, Suzanne Langille. The celebratory concert is split into four movements, each representing a traditional element that will inspire groups of five musicians to present 20-minutes of improvised sounds.

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Keke Hunt (Just The Right Height): Live

MITU580

ISSUE is pleased to present a final performance from 2023 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Keke Hunt (Just The Right Height). Hunt’s live set builds upon the ongoing project with collaborator Ben Mendelewicz utilizing motion capture data recorded with choreographer Charlton Diaz, and 3D avatar backup dancers designed by Shahan Assadourian and Mendelewicz.

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Member Event

ISSUE Member Event: Loren Connors & Suzanne Langille

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

Tuesday, December 5th at the organization's 22 Boerum Pl. theater, ISSUE is pleased to invite Members and special guests to a reception featuring a performance from Loren Connors and a conversation with Suzanne Langille. The event precedes ISSUE’s celebratory year-end concert: An Improvisational Symphony: coordinated by Suzanne Langille.

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Yasunao Tone / Marcia Bassett & Bob Bellerue

Brooklyn Music School

ISSUE in partnership with AvanTokyo is pleased to present a solo performance by legendary Fluxist artist Yasunao Tone at Brooklyn Music School in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. The evening also features a duo presentation by experimental musicians Marcia Bassett & Bob Bellerue, working in improvised processes.

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Jean Carla Rodea: All Your Sojourns Have Led To This (Omen)

The Mark O'Donnell Theater at the Entertainment Community Fund Arts Center

ISSUE is pleased to present All Your Sojourns Have Led to This (Omen), the culminating commission from 2023 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Jean Carla Rodea.

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yours in dentistry: Bk & ANNIHIL

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

ISSUE celebrates the exact day of the organization’s 20th Anniversary with yours in dentistry, a specially produced final program from 2023 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow evil dentist (Alice Gerlach & David Farrow). This culminating Fellowship project brings together artists blurring the boundaries between life/work and art/work.

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Francisco López: VirtuAural Electro-Mechanics

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

ISSUE celebrates its 20th Anniversary by welcoming acclaimed sonicist, composer, and biologist Francisco López’s presentation VirtuAural Electro-Mechanics. Internationally acclaimed for the intensity, richness and astonishing audio detail of his live immersive surround performances, López’s work is presented in multi-channel sound, in the dark, on two special evenings to a limited-capacity blindfolded audience in his New York home, ISSUE Project Room.

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