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.
A night of film, video and performance curated by Michelle Handelman. Works that investigate revolutions of exchange both political and sexual, transfiguration, transmutation and radical distortions of psychological entropy
The San Francisco-based video artist and musician, Nate Boyce, performs new work as well as a performance by Ray Sweeten.
Scott Draves a.k.a. Spot is a visual and software artist living in New York City. Draves is best known as the creator of the Electric Sheep. For tonight's performance, Scott’s real time video will be accompanied with live music by Zach Layton, Shelly Burgon and Michael Evans.
Meredith Drum presents three low-ball sci-fi video works that form a loose trilogy, “The Tower”, “The Formula” and “The Double." Alison Ward explores the ideas and motivations behind her piece the Beastly Beauty in the form of a performance as slide lecture.
David First's Gestural Improv Group.
At the ISSUE Project Room, Sportman's Paradise will perform their Tibetan-bells-and-six-guitars half-hour piece, XEAEX, and debut a shorter composition for six guitars as well. Cotton Museum and Sick Llama will also perform.
In September 2008 Chris released CANARIS, an album entirely for solo acoustic guitar. The first half is unplugged acoustic guitar; the title track is an extended piece for electrified acoustic guitar. This will be his first performance of the album in its entirety.
For this performance, Brooklyn multi-instrumentalist Robbie Lee leaves behind most of his usual odds and ends to focus on the extraordinary portative organ, a Medieval-style miniature pipe organ.