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.
Nick Hallett and Daisy Press sing works by Ives, Monk, Ashley, Cardew and more.
ISSUE Project Room is thrilled to present, live, the legendary John Kilduff of Los Angeles’ Let's Paint TV.
A conversation with Robert Ashely, scored using one of Ashley’s early graphic scores, "In memoriam…Esteban Gomez" (1963).
Cellist, composer and improviser Ha-Yang Kim presents new work at ISSUE Project Room.
Honne Wells, Juan Comas, Sacred Harp and Greg Jamie at ISSUE Project Room.
A live String Quartet (Mari Kimura, Dana Lyn, violins; Jessica Pavone, viola; Egil Rostad, cello) will perform Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and improvisations in the style of Anton Webern while Kenneth Goldsmith sings text by Roland Barthes.
James Nares is known for his paintings, films and to some extent, his music (most notably as a member of the Contortions). He will be showing a selection of his films, with an emphasis on those which have a musical or sonic component.
The representative sings and plays guitar, dressed all black and backed by local musicians. The group rehearses only once, the afternoon of the show. The music is electric, loud, and largely improvised. For each show the representative writes a whole new set of lyrics, which he keeps on a music stand.