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.
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.