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.
For the first time in more than 18 years, keyboardist John Medeski of the innovative trio Medeski Martin & Wood is pairing with guitarist Tisziji Munoz for live dates and an upcoming recording session this spring.
In 2005, Mary Jordan was featured as one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces. Shortly thereafter, she premiered her first feature length documentary entitled Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis which has garnished many awards. In addition to her work in film, Mary is also involved in photography, perform
IMPULSE to SUCK: The performance of the apology and the separation of sex and state.
Sam currently performs solo, as a principal vocalist with Robert Ashley’s opera company–with whom he has had leading roles in 6 operas–and with the ensemble, “Very Important Now”, touring in the US, Europe and elsewhere.
Jonathan Kane is a Downtown NYC legend — as co-founder of the no-wave behemoth Swans, the rhythmic thunder behind the massed-guitar armies of Rhys Chatham, the rock excursions of La Monte Young and one of the hardest-hitting drummers on the planet.
Glenn Branca performs Lesson No. 3 (A Tribute to Steve Reich) with Reg Bloor, Ryan Walsh, Evelyne Buhler, and Libby Fab. New York-based outfits Neg-Fi and Paranoid Critical Revolution share new work at ISSUE Project Room.
Grey Room presents performances by Ulrike Müller and Emma Hedditch, Petit Mal + XXX Macarena at ISSUE Project Room.
Born in New York City, Matthew Ostrowski has been active since the early 1980s, working in improvised music, music theater, electroacoustic composition and audio installations. Karlheinz Essl is an Austrian composer, improviser and performer utilizing computer, live-electronics, kalimba and other gadgets.